Top 626 Competitive Quotes

Airlines are very competitive.
Lucio Tan
I feel like everyone has this competitive instinct.
Sebastian Thrun
I don’t get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.
Sam Hunt
I’m very competitive, but I know when not to be competitive. I know how to have fun, but I know when it’s time to get serious. That makes things a lot easier.
Bryan Volpenhein
The more competitive value of the dollar turned around

The more competitive value of the dollar turned around the trade deficit.
Martin Feldstein
Silicon Valley is super competitive and super expensive for talent, for office space, for everything.
Nathan Blecharczyk
I moved out to Los Angeles with the idea of becoming a director, which thousands, if not tens and hundreds of thousands, of people do, every year. It’s a very competitive field, of course. I immediately got swept away into the visual side of things, starting with visual effects, and then designing.
Robert Stromberg
The broader the chess player you are, the easier it is to be competitive, and the same seems to be true of mathematics – if you can find links between different branches of mathematics, it can help you resolve problems. In both mathematics and chess, you study existing theory and use that to go forward.
Viswanathan Anand
I’m a very competitive person. But I think that’s good.
Janet Jackson
Canon is basically a very aggressive company. Our company works on competitive principles. It does not treat people equally, but it does treat them fairly.
Fujio Mitarai
A lot of men are competitive about being funny.
Arden Myrin
Rapping is competitive. Even someone who is not particularly fond of my music, may claim to be my fan only because he hates Honey Singh.
Raftaar
You can’t compete with hip-hop. That doesn’t mean I don’t want to be as big as a rap star. I do – I’m always competitive. But there’s this weird perception of me as someone who’s sitting around plotting like a devil. It’s not like that.
Brandon Flowers
There is some pretty powerful self-interest in wanting a future that is not just running storm-to-storm. The argument that I make is not that we aren’t competitive and selfish and greedy. We are. We’re all of these things. We’re complicated, competitive, greedy and nasty, and kind and generous and compassionate.
Naomi Klein
Adaptability and constant innovation is key to the survival of any company operating in a competitive market.
Shiv Nadar
Dave Camp, in my view, made tax reform inevitable in the sense that he showed you could broaden the base and lower the rates and simplify the code and be competitive around the world and make it more understandable.
Kevin Brady
Design is a powerful factor in communication between disciplines and stakeholders and can transform knowledge into creative, human-oriented solutions that can promote companies’ and countries’ competitive ability and foster innovation and growth.
Jens Martin Skibsted
Few targets of ridicule are as easy to hit as owners and handlers of competitive show dogs.
Meghan Daum
Uruguayans are competitive, and we always want to win. Even though we try to hide it, it is impossible.
Diego Godin
When you sell cars in the U.S., it forces you to be the most competitive.
Anand Mahindra
I’m ambitious but I’m not particularly competitive. I’ll try to get roles, as I think it’s healthy to go for things, but… I think there’s too much competition between women already. It’s important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses.
Rose Byrne
As most who have engaged in competitive sports know, there’s nothing to match the amplitude of emotion brought by losing.
Charles Krauthammer
In an increasingly competitive technology world, VCs must work more and more closely with portfolio companies to develop superior technology, talent, and operations.
Joe Lonsdale
Because of outdated regulations, workers in different types of contract often have unequal access to healthcare, pensions, education, and training, as well as other social benefits. This has to change for countries to remain competitive and for our businesses and workers to survive in the digital age.
Alain Dehaze
Challenging unfairly subsidized products, fighting counterfeit goods and intellectual property theft and holding countries accountable for an unfair currency regime will help American companies remain competitive.
Virginia Foxx
I think there wouldn’t be a Net neutrality debate in this country if we really had a competitive environment for access.
Chris Sacca
I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.
Edsger Dijkstra
I’m probably one of the most competitive people ever.
Kyrie Irving
Ninety percent of games lose money; 10 percent make a lot of money. And there’s a consistency around the competitive advantages you create, so if you can actually learn how to do the art, the design, and the programming, you would be consistently very profitable.
Gabe Newell
For a girl to be an actress, she must be like a man, competitive, hard, un-feminine.
Bob Crane
Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God’s.
Ezra Taft Benson
In many countries, IT is a pillar of growth and attracts a lot more competitive talent.
Renee James
A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.
Marvin Bower
I’m the most competitive person you’ll ever meet.
Kaley Cuoco
Extra capacity makes manufacturing competitive, keeps pricing in control.
Piyush Goyal
Sometimes I think I don't want to grow old as an actres

Sometimes I think I don’t want to grow old as an actress and deal with the fact that I’m getting less jobs ’cause my face is changing, and then the men… But at the same time, I’m pretty competitive. I don’t know if I’d bow out. I might still be acting when I’m in a wheelchair.
Kerry Condon
All the things that made us basically nasty, rapacious, competitive as a species are not necessarily hard-coded into whatever passes for the DNA of artificial intelligence.
Robert J. Sawyer
I am a competitive person. But more good TV is more good TV.
Matthew Weiner
I watched the ‘Food, Inc.’ documentary and was like, ‘This has opened my eyes to the meat industry – maybe I should go vegetarian.’ And my friend told me, ‘Sadie, you’re not gonna last a week.’ But I’m very competitive.
Sadie Sink
As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.
Sunil Chhetri
European-style interventions to which the Obama administration is inclined will not make America more competitive in the world-wide economy. Such policies will not increase growth, will not decrease unemployment, and will not increase wages for workers.
Elaine Chao
I’m naturally competitive, and I always want to win and always want to help our team win. So I always want to be on the field.
Becky Sauerbrunn
Wrestling is such a competitive sport worldwide.
Kurt Angle
When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff. It’s funny now to think about it – that a friend getting a job or something had anything to do with me… I think that my relationship with my wife has played a pivotal role in the chilling out of Aaron.
Aaron Staton
I’m not here just to walk two rounds or four rounds and just show up. I want to be able to be competitive, and I truly believe I can still be competitive when I’m playing well and feeling good.
Fred Funk
Since I tend to be pretty competitive and find that others on my team enjoy contests and team competitions, I thought a good way to improve feedback would be to create a way to reward the comments and ideas that actually change our company for the better.
John Rampton
I’m not a competitive person.
Chris Elliott
I am very, very competitive and ambitious. I would definitely fight hard for a role I believed in.
Edward Furlong
I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.
Michael Jordan
I always try to find companies I see eye to eye with. It was an easy collaboration with Hyland. They’re a well-rounded player and always try to find certain strategies to give their clients a competitive edge.
Xander Schauffele
I think people who are compelled to achieve never really think they’ve achieved… I think the moment you get to a place when you think ‘Oh I’m a fashion legend’ then that’s when you’re no longer competitive in your field.
Tom Ford
If the U.S. were to not reauthorize the Ex-Im bank, it’s in essence unilaterally disarming in a globally competitive environment.
Dennis Muilenburg
In a world as competitive as ours, the child who does not get a decent education is condemned to the fringes of society. I think all Australians agree that this is intolerable. So we must demand as much of our schools as we do of our sports teams – and ensure that they keep the Australian dream alive for every child.
Rupert Murdoch
We recognize the need to adapt to a changing competitive environment.
Sumner Redstone
I have a love-hate relationship with the Grammys because I don’t see the music world as a competitive sport.
James Taylor
Politicians said that with our cheap labour, we could be competitive in the world. Nothing could be further from the truth. We were the most uncompetitive country with that cheap labour.
Baba Kalyani
We need to invest in our crumbling infrastructure to create jobs and remain economically competitive.
Raja Krishnamoorthi
We need constant change, technological innovation capability, and high productivity to survive in the fierce competitive environment.
Joe Kaeser
I find myself getting associated with a lot of younger people in the game. I still enjoy playing with them, and I think they still enjoy playing with me. As long as I can stay competitive and have fun doing what I’m doing, I guess I’ll keep doing it.
Arnold Palmer
Privacy won’t survive the present trajectory of technology – and with the sense of being perpetually watched, humans will behave more cautiously, less subversively. Our ideas about the competitive marketplace are at risk.
Franklin Foer