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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
Competition

"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."

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Ice T Rapper, Actor
Competition

"Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you.""

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Karl Marx Philosopher, Economist
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."

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Laurent Fabius Politician
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."

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Keanu Reeves Actor, Producer
Competition

"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."

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George Will Political Commentator, Author
Competition

"There is an aura of changelessness to sport. There is the flux of competition, but it occurs within the ordering confinement of clear rules."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
Competition

"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"

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Henry Ford Industrialist
Competition

"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."

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