Competition - Compete Quotes

There is great ability in knowing how to conceal one’s ability.

Competition has many times caused distress and failure; for competition does not think or feel; still, thus far, we have found nothing to take the place of competition excepting monopoly, which is but a modern form of slavery. Unrestricted business tends toward monopoly. It gives an advantage to the strong, the clever, the selfish and […]

Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father’s store or farm.

Not only is competition the life of trade, it is the trade of life.

Anthropologists continue to turn up examples which prove that competitive, aggressive, war-like cultures are those in which sexual stereotypes are most polarized, while those social structures allowing for an overlap of roles and functions between men and women (in tasks, childrearing, decision-making, etc.) tend to be collectivist, cooperative and peaceful.

It’s them that takes advantage that get advantage in this world.

Competition can damage self-esteem, create anxiety, and lead to cheating and hurt feelings. But so can romantic love.

Then the boys, half a dozen of them, besides you, start the competition to see who can piss the highest above the line on the wall. You never win. Only once did you succeed in pissing above the white line, but that’s because you stood close to the wall, about one meter away, and also […]

How prudently we proud men compete for nameless graves, while now and then some starveling of late forgets himself into immortality.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.