I guess I take a lot of pride in that no matter what type of car we drive, we’re always competitive in it. That’s something I’ve taken a lot of pride in my whole life.
If we get a tax system that is competitive, we will hire people. When you hire people, you have to compete for labor. When you compete for labor, you drive wages.
With super PACs, we’ve seen voter turnout go up; interest in elections rise; and the number of competitive races increase. The campaigns of 2010 and 2012 have been more issue-oriented than their predecessors, not less.
Leaving the European Union really does give us a chance as a country to become more outward-looking, to become more competitive, and to deepen our links with our partners right across the world.
I’m not at all competitive. I’d rather play Solitaire than ping-pong.
That’s part of the character of Shanghainese people. They’re good negotiators, they’re very persistent, and you grow up in an atmosphere like that – very competitive. That becomes part of your personality: Shanghai personality becomes part of yours. Just like New Yorkers – they’re often like that.
I’m really focusing now on how I can get to the next level as a batsman. How can I get even more competitive? How can I get even more consistent? How can I get better?
If someone wants to be very tight about authenticity or ownership, it just sounds kind of competitive to me.
For those of us who have lived abroad and seen our nation in a highly competitive 21st century, and kind of see where this world is going – unless we are able to strengthen our core, we’re going to see the end of the American century. And that is totally unacceptable.
The booing and the drama help make the Olympics interesting, but at what cost? When will people finally get tired of it and start watching the X-Games or competitive tire rolling instead?
The music scene is more competitive in the States.
I’ve discovered that Motown and Broadway have a lot in common – a family of wonderfully talented, passionate, hardworking young people, fiercely competitive but also full of love and appreciation for the work, for each other and for the people in the audience.
I think we need to have competitive tax rates in order to create jobs in this country. And I think it should be fair.
You learn their honesty, you learn their competitiveness. You learn a lot about a person. It’s not that they have to sink the putt and there’s a great deal of talent involved – but you do learn about how competitive a person is on the golf course, and frankly, how honest.
Growth comes out of a healthy competitive atmosphere, not trying to choose a particular path forward.
In Los Angeles, parenting is a competitive sport. From Beverly Hills baby boutiques to kids’ yoga classes, L.A. fuses high style, industrial-strength materialism, and parental outsourcing into our own unique version of child-rearing.
I’m competitive, but that doesn’t stop me from being realistic.
If black people use their resources properly, they can become as competitive as any group in society – take control of our neighborhoods, our businesses, our schools, including our teachers. The only thing keeping black people from doing it is this idiotic idea about integration, about being racially balanced.
People who go to Oxford and Cambridge are often unproductive. What am I saying? This is nonsense. No, sometimes they get so competitive that, unless they’re going to be Pulitzer prize-winning, they can’t get off their backside.
The Midland community is huge into softball. They have a lot of competitive men’s teams. We played at a beautiful stadium, and our games would be packed every weekend. I’m pretty sure people have my signature on softballs and they don’t even know. Because we would just sign so many autographs all of the time.
I think you can be happy and still be competitive. A good lesson for everybody is to think a bit before you speak and represent who you really are instead of the brash emotional you.
My wife’s an Australian and a very competitive lady, and she wants to sail in Sydney-Hobart. I say, ‘We have the boat, do as you wish.’ I’ll let her run the show.
The notion of having work-life harmony in a highly competitive economy is a first-class topic.
Life is a competitive endeavor.
There are several silver linings on the horizon. The current account deficits in Spain and Portugal are declining because they have become more competitive and they’re exporting more.
I’m very competitive, and I want to be known to do well.
We’re excited by the success of WhatsApp on top of Android. Amazon brings services like Kindle on top of Android. It’s a competitive world and a lot more complex than people realize. When you run a platform on scale, you have to make sure it’s truly open. That way, not only do you do well, so do others.
As a driver, your target is always to be with the most competitive team possible.
I never really liked the idea of rap being a competitive thing. It’s not.
The market for religious apps is fiercely competitive; searching for ‘bible’ in the Apple App Store returns 5,185 results. But among all the choices, YouVersion’s Bible, funded by LifeChurch.tv of Edmond, Oklahoma, seems to be the chosen one, ranking at the top of the list and boasting more than 641,000 reviews.
I would say probably my most alpha quality is my competitive nature. I’m very competitive, and it tends to bring out very much the man in me.
And so if your competitors aren’t growing, if there isn’t a competitive reason to grow, and you want focus and discipline to add customers to existing stores, you adjust your strategy.
I’m not a guy who goes into the neighborhood, gets beat up by the bully’s gang, and then now I want to join their gang. That’s just not me. I wanna fight – let’s go! I mean, I’m gonna stand up for myself. That’s just the competitive nature of where I come from, the era I grew up in.
We should be growing and make ourselves, as a state and a nation, more competitive. India, China and these other countries are not waiting for us.
I think if I get the training spot on, the equipment perfect and I’m in the right state of mind, I can get a result there from no competitive action.
I still have the competitive spirit, which is good.
By welcoming eager, talented workers, we expand America’s potential for growth, and our competitive culture of invention and possibility.
I don’t think that my job requires me to be competitive at all. I’m in my office by myself, or I’m in my writers’ room with my people. I’ve chosen a job in which there’s no competition allowed. It’s probably best for everyone.
I tried the broadcasting thing, the coaching thing, but I’ll never replace the competitive feeling of being out on the field when we were players.
I have a healthy competitive nature.
I am a very competitive person.
From a young age, I was viciously competitive.
I get my competitive edge from my mum. When we’re together, we’re competitive about little things – it’ll be, ‘I can bake cakes better than you can.’ But she’s never been a pushy parent; she’s always just supported me.
Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.
We’re very focused on making News Feed really good, making our photos experience really good, making messaging really good, and creating great location apps. That’s the nature of a platform business of our scale. Most companies that are relevant to us will have some overlaps in some competitive way.
The bottom line is the best consumer protections are competitive, innovative markets that are transparent. Now, they need to be vigorously policed for force and fraud, but the agencies that do that need to be accountable.
I don’t like conflicts. I’m not a competitive person at heart. To be in the middle of turmoil is boring.
I think the rise of China is inevitable, because China has moved from a low-cost producer, at low levels of technology, to higher levels of technology, and because it’s very competitive, even in some high-tech products they offer at very competitive rates – much lower than their competitors.
When I released my first record, I was really in the middle of having made the decision to follow the clinical psychology path, which is competitive, rigorous, and fairly conservative.
I’m a competitive guy.
A lot of people don’t realise how competitive college sprinting is.
To me, figure skating is an art form, and that’s what I always try to bring in, even to my competitive programs.
When it comes to work, I’m not competitive at all. Having Cara as my baby, I had to learn quite quickly that I couldn’t be competitive because I had a sister who meant more to me. And I knew she was going to be brilliant, so I had to become very aware of not comparing.
One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don’t ride. I observe, and I worry.
What people are feeling is the similarity in what I do and how I’m capable of breaking a new artist into a competitive field. People can’t wrap their head around the fact that Gaga did not do that on her own. She didn’t. There was a Laurieann Gibson.
