Top 626 Competitive Quotes

There will be a lot of competitive and strong companies coming here and even though Kosovo is a small country that undoubtedly has a lot to offer to global trade; one of our main interests is to expose it to the world market.
Ibrahim Rugova
If I was 30th in points and not making races and not being competitive in races, I could understand them saying I’m over-the-hill or I’m ready to quit or whatever.
Dale Earnhardt
America still has the right stuff to thrive. We still have the most creative, diverse, innovative culture and open society – in a world where the ability to imagine and generate new ideas with speed and to implement them through global collaboration is the most important competitive advantage.
Thomas Friedman
The increase in straight-ticket party voting in recent years means that competitive congressional races can tip one way or the other depending on the showing of the candidates at the top of the ticket.
Thomas E. Mann
The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that.
Jose Mourinho
Regrettably, people today don’t watch many programs that actually teach people how to cook, so I agreed to do a competitive show that I think will provide inspiration.
Ron Ben-Israel
In a global arena, what our businessmen need in order to be competitive is transparency and a level playing-field.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
I missed being considered an athlete and having that competitive drive, and missed having something to work for every day. I’d taken two and a half years away from the sport and was out of shape. I wanted to get back to where I was in 2008.
Shawn Johnson
There are a lot of competitive girls in the industry, so you just find the ones who share your mentality.
Barbara Palvin
The only things I’m competitive in are backgammon and poker.
Kate Hudson
Brands are facing a new competitive landscape in which self-definition, core values and purpose will increasingly define their ability to reach customers that only allow what is meaningful in their lives to pass through their filter.
Simon Mainwaring
It would be disingenuous of me to blanket-ly love everything a woman has produced simply to make a statement that we’re all in this together. No. We’re in Hollywood trying to be competitive, and get numbers, have our eyes on the Nielsens and things like that.
Mindy Kaling
Being nice and competitive are two different things.
David Duffield
What’s more ludicrous is the whole idea of me being jealous and competitive.
Ryan Phillippe
The world has become rapidly more competitive.
John Hickenlooper
I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That’s always been my competitive advantage.
Gary Vaynerchuk
Bringing more large sporting events to Africa would help the continent develop sports policies and at the same time optimize its peoples’ chances of achieving competitive success.
Richard Attias
I’m a competitive person. I love the game of basketball. I’m a gym rat.
Paul Pierce
Creating deluxe cuisine is like playing a sport. Always competitive. Always challenging. And if you slow down a bit, you can no longer return to the top level.
Joel Robuchon
I think my career would probably be in a better place had I been more aggressive. But I don’t have it in me. I’m not a competitive person, and I’m also really private.
Debi Mazar
One of the reasons I’m so competitive – I mean, I’m not winning much anymore – at my age was because I always worked hard and because we have a level playing field. We don’t have motorbikes in the peloton anymore.
Jens Voigt
There are two aspects to being competitive; one is to do with sports, and the other is about technical skills. Being able to recollect the moves and apply them when necessary is a critical aspect.
Viswanathan Anand
I’m oddly not competitive. What I love about show business is there is a home for everyone.
Jay Mohr
I have an innate passion and competitive streak to win and to create, and I want our team to be better than everybody else. Some people thrive in that environment, and some people don’t.
Nancy Dubuc
I'm a racer at heart more than anything else, and that

I’m a racer at heart more than anything else, and that will always be my priority: competing. But ultimately, if you can’t drive, you can still have the competitive spirit outside of a car.
Jacques Villeneuve
We could see that he was a charismatic guy who jumps over the moon and is very competitive, but nobody could have predicted what he would become to our culture.
Phil Knight
The only thing that’s really riled me up in the last ten years has been the White Stripes. That’s the one band that’s gotten me competitive, and that’s good.
Courtney Love
As long as you can bootstrap, not at the sacrifice of competitive advantage, bootstrapping is a really powerful thing because it allows you to be totally devoted to your vision.
Nick Woodman
To be perfectly honest, I’m competitive.
Mike White
We should reconsider greater integration of North America to achieve a region that is more competitive and capable of creating more jobs.
Enrique Pena Nieto
I think we’ve got to be competitive here in Illinois. It’s critical we’re competitive. We’re hurting our economy by having the minimum wage above the national. We’ve got to move back to the national.
Bruce Rauner
The world’s most competitive man, my dad. Wouldn’t let us win at Monopoly… he wouldn’t cut any slack for his children. My sister’s also very, very competitive but she is more concerned than I am with being liked. So she hides it away. I try to make my competitiveness part of my charm.
Giles Coren
The first car I drove was a BMW M3. I drove it around a circuit close to my house. We just wanted to go and have some fun and didn’t think it was going to be competitive in terms of lap times. But I ended up being faster than the instructors that day.
Nicolas Hamilton
I was an extreme tomboy. I did competitive gymnastics for over 10 years. I cut my hair like Winona Ryder, with that little pixie cut.
Serinda Swan
I’d grown up an athletic child, a competitive soccer player since age 4, with stints ranging from months to years in gymnastics, softball, volleyball.
V. E. Schwab
The space elevator’s not just another competitive technology, promoted by people who simply like the idea of diminishing the luster of the thrusters. It would open wide the doors to space.
Seth Shostak
Diversity gives our city a competitive edge.
Thomas Menino
Everybody doesn’t get to do each and every film. I don’t compete with others; I compete with myself. I have been an athlete, a sportsperson; so I know how to be competitive in a healthy way.
Deepika Padukone
You need to understand the market, know how you can differentiate yourself in it, and grasp the price and the functional differentiation competitive points that are going to allow you to be disruptive.
Audrey MacLean
You still remember the bad rounds here, but they don’t stay with you as long. The Champions Tour is great, it’s competitive and it’s a wonderful show, but it’s not the real big league. The real big league is the PGA Tour, and we all know that.
Tom Kite
I feel really productive. I’m very competitive with myself. I’m a scheduler. I’m always trying to keep everything together – I’m very OCD and very organized.
Kendall Jenner
When money, rather than innovation or value, is your competitive advantage, that’s when things get boring and stagnant, and monopolies take root.
Hank Green
The U.S. can become carbon neutral in our lifetimes. In the process, we will put millions of Americans to work, make our companies more competitive, and shield our communities from extreme weather. And we will honor our obligation to leave the world a better place for future generations.
Frances Beinecke
Roughly speaking, when you are dealing with business firms operating in a competitive system, you can assume that they’re going to act rationally. Why? Because someone in a firm who buys things at $10 and sells them for $8.00 isn’t going to last very long in that firm.
Ronald Coase
I had offers to go overseas and play basketball but I turned it down because I wanted to stay local. So I got started in Jiu Jitsu, which was something I could be competitive at.
Travis Browne
You going to call me arrogant for believing in myself? Come on! It’s a competitive sport. Rappin’ is the closest thing to boxing. Jay-Z said that. You gotta fight every day.
Astro
I love it when I start a book that is so good that all I want to do is get back to my own writing, in a competitive way.
Julia Glass
It is very important for people to understand that the United States of America and no country around the world can devalue its way to prosperity, to be competitive. It is not a viable, feasible strategy, and we will not engage in it.
Timothy Geithner
Reading while I’m writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer.
Amity Gaige
It was simple reality – most competitive tennis players in my day were privileged, spoiled, entitled and white. Also, many of them were beautiful, fit, tan and of good stock – great big hair and white teeth and long legs. Then there were the rest of us.
Anne Lamott
We’ve dreamed of growing our company into something like Richard Childress has. We’re working really hard, and we’re getting more competitive. Hopefully, that becomes a reality.
Robby Gordon
In many competitive worlds like luxury, things are done behind closed doors and with secrecy, so one day I had a eureka moment: for one weekend we show everything, full transparency, forget about business or commerce and showcase our work.
Antoine Arnault
Public discourse about climate change has resulted in the erroneous idea that it’s all about cost, burden and sacrifice. If the math was correct, everyone would see it’s about profit, jobs and competitive advantage.
Amory Lovins
It’s a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.
Karolina Kurkova
Chinese… companies do not have to think about whether they do something to enhance their competitive edge in international markets.
Li Shufu