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"We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility."
"One good act of vengeance deserves another."
"Let your customers and prospects recommend you to each other and let you competition wish they were you. That is our mission."
"Good developers like seeing their products sell in large quantities. They enjoy the competition of doing a better job than the other company, especially if the other company has more people on the project and they're entrenched and people are saying that we don't have a chance of getting in there and... and doing well."
"The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have the edge in this area."
"The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms."
"In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power."
"I've always like watching competition and athleticism. Just seeing the average person going up against Gladiators, is always something I enjoy. I'm not really a big sports fan, but I do enjoy the show."
"I've never really done acting before, 'cause dancing was my first love. And then, I sort of fell into it from a talent competition and never really looked back."
"It's not a competition, it's a doorway."
"Fierce national competition over water resources has prompted fears that water issues contain the seeds of violent conflict."
"An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God."
"The greatest cunning is to have none at all."
"I never dislike anyone that I am in competition with. I welcome the challenge. Besides, I get along with just about everyone."
"There is competition, .. Can any Microsoft endure future competition without innovation? The answer is no. We've got to keep changing."
"It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces than public spirit and sense of duty."
"Private Property, the Law of Accumulation of Wealth, and the Law of Competition... these are the highest results of human experience, the soil in which society so far has produced the best fruit."
"Unless there is free and fair competition, there can't be healthy economic development. And what we have in Burma now is not an open-market economy that allows free and fair competition, but a form of colonialism makes a few people very, very wealthy. It's what you would crony capitalism."
"My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff."
"Ad campaigns are necessary for competition. But good PR educates people; that's all it is."
