Competition is the best form of motivation.
There’s fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be.
All my success seems to come straight away, and it’s not until later that I get to appreciate it. Like with ‘Popstars,’ I won the competition, and now I look back and go, ‘God, I was lucky to have number-one singles and albums.’
Our focus is on the customers and improving their experience. We believe that if we do that well, competition, prices, and profits will all take care of themselves.
Free trade has been one of the tenets of the modern Mexican economy, and it’s through competition and free trade that we will continue to advance.
Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don’t. I don’t need the competition.
I was kind of freaked out by the art world in the 1980s. Just the money thing. All the competition over artists.
It’s not good to focus on one person or two persons about being your rivals. The important thing is just to train hard and be ready for the competition and to prepare for the races so that in case of anything that comes out, you are able to handle it.
It can be dangerous to be too content, especially at a club like Bayern, where there is so much competition for places.
My greatest competition is, well, me.
It’s not rage that drives me, it’s competition.
Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
I don’t consider my competition to be companies but entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is the freedom to take your own decisions, and that’s what we offer.
I think competition turns people into what they normally wouldn’t be.
Putin is playing the long game. He has a strategic plan in mind: the Eurasian Union, which would be in competition to Europe.
I met Tiger Woods, and I looked in his eyes – and I saw Derek Jeter. They don’t have to tell people they’re good. They just prove it by the way they love the competition.
In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.
A good game will always snatch my attention. No matter the sport, the spirit of competition and audience is nostalgic and relaxing to me.
The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
Dominant companies have a special responsibility to ensure that the way they do business doesn’t prevent competition… and does not harm consumers and innovation.
You can’t say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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.
The World Cup must remain the number one competition, because it is our only source of money and, with that money, we can develop football in the whole world.
The US constitution’s First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with – more speech and debate, not censorship.
If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.
The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man – that is to say, the strongest and cleverest – is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person.
You can’t have public health without a public health system. We just don’t want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system.
Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.
There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.
In the World Cup, people of many nations come together for a fierce competition. To field the best team, all the competitor nations know that they need to train their athletes for many years, starting as early as the first moments a child can recognize a soccer ball. No shortcuts. No late starts.
I think there’s much more fashion competition in the more junior levels of the fashion department. And that’s exciting and stimulating to see, because it’s ‘Vogue;’ it’s great to see people dressed originally and with great style and panache. It wouldn’t be ‘Vogue’ otherwise.
I play football in training all the time with my male friends, who are also professionals. But playing together in competition? I just don’t see it. We have the ability, we have the technique, we have the tactical understanding, but there are physical limitations. You can’t get away from that.
Globalization has redefined the competition for employment and incomes in the United States. Tradeoffs will have to be made between the two.
I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol. The other people in the competition had been taking singing lessons and had vocal coaches. I wasn’t taking it too seriously at the time, I would just sing around the house. I was only 12 and I got second place.
I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.
I’m not at all snobby about book prizes and how they pollute the world of literature. Just like with the Olympics, a little bit of competition gets people truly engrossed in the business of literature.
Every year before a big competition, I get hurt doing stuff I should not be doing. One year it was my little brother’s 12th birthday. We all played hide-and-seek late at night. I climbed up a 30-foot tree, thinking he’d never catch me. I tripped and fell on one of the branches and I hit my head.
If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective. If you’re disciplined enough, you don’t get down when you’re behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.
By overhauling current rules and speeding the entry of competitors in the market, we encourage competition and provide our constituents with new choices and cheaper bills.
It’s something I have to remind myself about, that at every competition, I put a lot of pressure on myself, almost like it’s the end of the world, and I have to keep reminding myself it’s not.
‘Perfect competition’ is considered both the ideal and the default state in Economics 101. So-called perfectly competitive markets achieve equilibrium when producer supply meets consumer demand.
Do not let ASEAN become a playing card for the competition among major countries.
I think for me, the most fun competition that I’ve had was my first Worlds.
Advertising as the printed form of selling would seem… ultimately to be justified in so far as it serves as a means of increasing legitimate human wants, as an agency of fair and economic competition in the distribution of goods, and as a stimulant to social progress.
Whenever we’re on the red carpet, we look like competition winners. It’s a joke.
Maybe I should find myself one of those sexy British soccer stars. David Beckham is hot. But I’ve got a hell of a lot of competition.
In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they’re special when they win a competition.
A lot of it had to do with when it’s released and what’s out in the marketplace, what’s its competition.
The fashion industry is completely different from the acting industry, but definitely the same as well, because there’s cattiness and competition just like in the modeling world.
I don’t have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You’d be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees – I think a lot of it’s imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?
Reducing health care costs for families requires increased competition in health insurance.
The image of me as someone who likes or can deal with a fight is wrong. Some people enjoy competition and dustups, and I wish I did, but I don’t. But once you have started down a path, then I think you have to move forward. You can’t give up.
With less competition to fear, companies are emboldened to raise their mark-ups and profits. That lifts share prices and thus the wealth of already wealthy shareholders.
The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.
When you’re thinking about your next product or current product and wondering how to make it different so you don’t have competition, understand the job the customer needs to get done.
The healthcare industry has never had a priority on user experience because there has been little competition. Prices have never been transparent.
In competition, you see people who win and lose, and you have to learn how to lose gracefully. You have to be able to come back in the day and compete again, not hold a grudge, and put everything into the next fight.
The benefit is competition, the thrill of playing in the Olympics, being an Olympian, playing against the best.
I love this sport, I love the competition.
I do believe food plays an important role in preparation for the Olympics or any competition.
