Competition - Compete Quotes

Merchant, n. One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

We regard our living together not as an unfortunate mishap warranting endless competition among us, but as a deliberate act of God to make us a community of brothers and sisters jointly involved in the quest for a composite answer to the varied problems of life.

The ideal amount of competition in any environment, the classroom, the workplace, the family, the playing field, is none. (Competition) is always destructive.

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers and never succeeding.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Thou shalt not covet, but tradition approves of all forms of competition.

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

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

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.