My instinct is to assume that we consumers are an inconsistent bunch. We like competition if it delivers low prices, but grumble if it delivers the bad news that prices need to go up.
The Olympics is the biggest competition for all athletes and an unforgettable event.
If every other store in town is paying workers $9 an hour, one offering $8 will find it hard to hire anyone – perhaps not when unemployment is high, but certainly in normal times. Robust competition is a powerful force helping to ensure that workers are paid what they contribute to their employers’ bottom lines.
Healthy competition places discipline on the market and should focus providers on providing the best service at a lower cost.
From the very start, I thought there were four key principles that the agency should focus on: driving private investment, driving innovation, promoting competition, and protecting consumers.
There’s not enough competition and innovation in healthcare.
More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.
The innovative process is a fragile one, dependent on a complex, often messy interplay of imagination, competition, and exchange. Curbing new ideas hurts not only individual creators but the audience for which they create and the posterity that inherits their legacy.
In my experience over the past 30 years in business, investment decisions can be slowed or stopped due to unpredictability in laws and regulatory framework or if free trade and competition is hampered or access to capital restricted.
People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. I am now competing in an arena where I can hold my head high. I feel quite confident in what I’m doing now, much more than the singing. I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.
There’s a bigger difference now than when I first got into professional baseball because that was before guaranteed contracts, before there was a lot of money, so it was mostly survival. You had more competition.
The whole competition thing disturbs me. Not that I wasn’t a part of it when I first started.
Hairdressers don’t judge you. They pretty much accept everything because they’ve heard everything. They’re on your side, like a cheerleader, and there’s no competition. They don’t want to be you, and you don’t want to be them.
‘Shark Tank’ is fun, but it’s all business. We use our own money, and the competition between the sharks is fierce. More importantly, it’s an opportunity to invest in businesses that are being watched and considered by millions of people every time it’s shown.
Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.
Before competition, I start to question things. I don’t know why it happens, but you’ve got to control it so you don’t get too far out of the race.
Brand-name drugs have no competition, since the government grants them very long, exclusive marketing rights.
The Affordable Care Act has been designed to provide health security by driving competition, lowering premiums, and protecting families.
There is a consensus of willing leaders from both parties coalescing around the right way forward in health care. Reform should address government-imposed inequities and barriers to true choice and competition.
Well, it’s still another two-day competition, so it’s really important to show that you’re ready. Every meet is really important right now. You’ve got to keep showing you can hit.
I believe our health care system is in drastic need of innovative, patient-centered reforms that encourage competition and increase consumer choice, not the bloated bureaucracy, tax increases, rationing, and mandates in the president’s government takeover.
If you’re a true warrior, competition doesn’t scare you. It makes you better.
You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don’t make moves and when you don’t climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you’re not competition.
I don’t try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don’t really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different.
I feel like Canadian movies should be as good or better than the competition because of the talent we have here. Someone like Ryan Gosling shouldn’t have to come back here because it’s a Canadian movie. He should want to come back because some of the best movies are being made here.
I’ve always wanted to appear in a 3-D Movie, that’s always been a goal of mine. If you appear in a 3-D picture you are a shoo-in for an Oscar. There’s no competition.
But my strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided if I pursued songwriting, which is what was closest to my heart, then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.
My dad was a plumber. That’s hard work. He never missed a day of work. I will never disrespect him by not showing up for an athletic competition that has a maximum duration of 25 minutes. There should be forfeiture if you have to pull out of a fight. If you don’t show up, it should be a loss on your record.
I wish we could launch a ground-breaking competition that motivates kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living.
I didn’t really like the aloneness of doing stand-up. The comedians by nature weren’t very – I mean, they were sociable, but they hung out in cliques, and it’s very hard to get accepted; lots of competition.
You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.
The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I’m planning to test my own boundaries.
In baseball, you can hit 40 home runs on a single-A-league team and never get paid a thing. But in a hedge fund, you get paid on your batting average. So you go to the worst league you can find, where there’s the least competition.
All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost – the most legitimate – passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.
I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.
What kept me going through all the years? More than anything, the love of and respect for competition. That’s what it comes down to for me. That’s why I do this.
Deep inside, I was hoping I’d win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other’s mistakes.
I would draw a really big distinction between competition, or potential competition, and a conflict of interest. A conflict of interest implies wrongdoing, whereas competition is really healthy.
Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I’m looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.
The Christian market has less competition and lower standards.
America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
If there was no Bill Bowerman, there would have been no me. He had about as much of an impact on my life as any one person could have. He taught me about competition and ingrained it in me. He taught me not to praise ordinary performances.
The idea of competition, particularly in a creative atmosphere, is always there. And, if you don’t acknowledge that, you are doing yourself and the process a disservice.
The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
Somehow, people act like I have no competition, but the thing is, the competition is so good that it forces me to be better than I even thought was possible.
I’ve been in a competitive situation almost all my life. I’ve been having a competition with myself and trying to be the best I could be.
Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I’ll let everyone else worry about championships. I’m going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.
In football you need opponents, competition because if you are alone with two or three clubs controlling everything you don’t have any competition.
There is no worse situation to enter competition than losing the home opener.
When I first started acting, somebody once said to me that anything that is a problem that prevents you from getting a job will eventually be a strength. It works both ways. The odder you are, the harder it is to get work, but once you sort of establish it, you have no competition.
I’ve been in international competition, and now I know what the big boys can do. You don’t go out and just run. There’s an offense and a defense.
