Strategy is about setting yourself apart from the competition. It's not a matter of being better at what you do - it's a matter of being different at what you do.
- Michael Porter
There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this competition, you'll never win it,' - they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on.
- Zaha Hadid
Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization
- Peter Kropotkin
The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition.
- Dale Carnegie
The only competition that matters is the one that takes place within yourself.
- Pete Carroll
The greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
- Fidel Castro
Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite.
- Ronald Reagan
Practice like it's competition and compete like it's another day on the practice court.
- Karch Kiraly
Take someone who doesn't keep score, who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he's free.
- Rumi
The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.
- John P. Kotter
The most important attribute a player must have is mental toughness.
- Mia Hamm
Don't kill the competition. Competition is healthy for businesses. It keeps you the entrepreneur on your toes.
- Aliko Dangote
If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.
- Patrick Lencioni
You can't look at the competition and say you're going to do it better. You have to look at the competition and say you're going to do it differently.
- Steve Jobs
Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
- Tom Peters
My best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.
- Carl Lewis
In training, you listen to your body. In competition, you tell your body to shut up.
- Rich Froning Jr.
Affirmative action was designed to keep women and minorities in competition with each other to distract us while white dudes inject AIDS into our chicken nuggets.
- Tracy Morgan
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
- Adam Smith
The mere possession of monopoly power, and the concomitant charging of monopoly prices, is not only not unlawful, it is an important element of the free-market system. The opportunity to charge monopoly prices - at least for a short period - is what attracts 'business acumen' in the first place; it induces risk taking that produces innovation and economic growth.
- Antonin Scalia
If you are unable to compete with the pious in their good deeds, compete with the sinful in their repentance.
- Ibn Rajab
If you can't be better than your competition, just dress better.
- Anna Wintour
Why can't DFW compete like San Francisco does with Oakland, like Miami does with Fort Lauderdale, and like Chicago O'Hare does with Midway?
- John Ensign
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
- Fulton J. Sheen
A society which discards those who are weak and non-productive risks exaggerating the development of reason, organisation, aggression and the desire to dominate. It becomes a society without a heart, without kindness - a rational and sad society, lacking celebration, divided within itself and given to competition, rivalry and, finally, violence.
- Jean Vanier
Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.
- Earl Campbell
Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn't have any competition.
- Sumner Redstone
[John D. Rockefeller] didn't care about anyone he did anything just to be rich and be the only company standing without any competition. He destroyed anyone else.
- Ida Tarbell
Competition is the death of art.
- Dana Gould
Inside the Great Mystery that is, we don't really own anything. What is this competition we feel then, before we go, one at a time, through the same gate?
Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.
- Wendell Berry
The only competition you will ever face is with your own ignorance.
- Bob Proctor
The great thing about serving the poor is that there is no competition.
- Eugene Rivers
With competition everyone has to try harder.
- Harold H. Greene
Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.
- Jerry Flint
Chiropractic has helped keep me injury free - that is half the trick to staying in competition.
- Lee Labrada
We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.
- Sandy Duncan
Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease.
- Pat Summitt
The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is - and I mean this seriously - the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.
Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.
- Janet Jackson
The rare individuals who unselfishly try to serve others have an enormous advantage-they have little competition.
- Andrew Carnegie
The Breakfast of Champions isn't cereal, it's the competition!
- David Lee Roth
The life contest is primarily a competition for available energy.
- Ludwig Boltzmann
After my first day of competition I put on compression socks. They help me recover for the next day.
- Jessica Ennis
Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.
- Sam Walton
The moment one brings competition into music, the soul is lost.
- Jagjit Singh
When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.
- Bill Paxton
