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Quotes about competition
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Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress. (Korten David)
I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself. (Korten David)
It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a lot to me to be out here and fighting for the title and, you know, it hurts not to win it. (Korten David)
How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which... 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our pocket of excellence is that 75% of [American] students have learned to critique tactfully? (Korten David)
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World trade means competition from anywhere; advancing technology encourages cross-industry competition. Consequently, strategic planning must consider who our future competitors will be, not only who is here today. (Korten David)
What it comes down to is that anybody can win with the best horse. What makes you good is if you can take the second or third-best horse and win. (Korten David)
Thank God for competition. When our competitors upset our plans or outdo our designs, they open infinite possibilities of our own work to us. (Korten David)
Competitions are for horse, not artist. (Korten David)
I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play. (Korten David)
To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind is ensnared by competition. (Korten David)
Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind. (Korten David)
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war. (Korten David)
Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one. (Korten David)
Focus on competition has always been a formula for mediocrity. (Korten David)
Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts. (Korten David)
The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost -- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train. But, whether the law be benign or not, we must say of it: It is here; we cannot evade it; no substitutes for it have been found; and while the law may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department. (Korten David)
Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath. (Korten David)
Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition. (Korten David)
The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation. (Korten David)
You must sacrifice, train, do everything possible to put yourself in a position to win. But if you consider second or third a failure, I feel sorry for you. (Korten David)
You get out in front -- you stay out in front. (Korten David)
It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all. (Korten David)
There are two kinds of people: Those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group because there is less competition there. (Korten David)
The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be only sustainable competitive advantage. (Korten David)
No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist. (Korten David)
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