Competition - Compete Quotes

Compete, don’t envy.

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.

The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home and abroad;

Do not compete with anyone except yourself.

Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people.

Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose. The struggle will be unequal. One of the contestants enters the fray unencumbered, for he has already lost everything, even his shame. He has cast off everything, has nothing further to lose, and throws himself headlong into all sorts of insolence. Never risk your precious reputation […]

Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion – I’ve worked with my best friends in direct competition.

Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.

Competition in the service of consumers is the one and only sure way to produce a prosperity permanently spiraling upward. All political spendings for purposes beyond the protection of life and property are a snare and a delusion.

Facts do not “speak for themselves.” They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities