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"Competition and the market are like water, they go where they want"
"The best marketing strategy is to destroy your industry before your competition does."
"Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no."
"There are lots of good reasons to abandon a project. Having a little competition is not one of them."
"The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else. It might be the competition or a technology or the lousy things that someone did a decade ago. None of it is going to get better as a result of revisiting the grudge."
"There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer."
"Not too worried about fighting for titles, but just fighting the best competition at the Welterweight division. I'll be happy with that."
"The wise man doesn't compete; therefore nobody can compete with him."
"Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you.""
"When I broke in, in 1957, it was wide open. Now you're up against strong competition."
"In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition."
"There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and soon to be 30: policies of unrestricted competition to the detriment of production, wages, research and innovation."
"There's a film there in competition [of Sundance Film Festival] called To The Bone. It's directed by Marti Noxon. I have a supporting role in it. It got really well received. It's a really great film."
"There is an aura of changelessness to sport. There is the flux of competition, but it occurs within the ordering confinement of clear rules."
"It's designed to carry forward the neoliberal project to maximize profit and domination, and to set the working people in the world in competition with one another so as to lower wages to increase insecurity"
"Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far."
"I found that competition was supposed to be a menace and that a good manager circumvented his competitors by getting a monopoly by artificial means."
"If you want to create something great and do it faster than the competition, you need to be action oriented."
"The sport of business is the ultimate competition. It's 7 × 24 × 365 × forever."