Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amanda Beard

I don't underestimate the power of mental preparation throughout all of my training. I'm in a much better state of mind about competition.

Adam Smith

That a joint stock company should be able to carry on successfully any branch of foreign trade, when private adventurers can come into any sort of open and fair competition with them, seems contrary to all experience.

Adam Smith

In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will always be the more so.

Adam Gilchrist

Whilst there's a competition still on we're still a chance,

Charles Koch

When a company is not being guided by the products they make and what the customers need, but by how they can manipulate the system - get regulations on their competitors, or mandates on using their products, or eliminating foreign competition - it just lowers the overall standard of living and hurts the disadvantaged the most.

Carrie Fisher

My parents had this incredibly vital relationship with an audience, like muscle with blood. This was the main competition I had for my parents' attention: an audience.

Eric Fellner

There's so much competition for leisure time, more than ever.

Eric Shanteau

Olympic medals are the one medal that I don't have; I've won just about every other competition that I've been at.

We are not concerned about competition. In fact, we are the competition. We're not worried about EADS and Northrop.

Katie Ledecky

When I was six, right before I started swimming, we went to a national competition here in Maryland and watched Michael Phelps swim, and I got to meet him afterwards, and I got his autograph. Fast forward nine years, and I'm at the Olympics with him, and it's like: 'Woah.'

We are concerned about increasing competition in the U.S. PC market from Dell.

Arthur Clough

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

Paula Abdul

You know what time it is in the competition and you took a risk.

Marisa Miller

When I first started playing team sports, I was a little too sweet for my own good. I'd be in tears because I wasn't doing well. But the healthy competition really toughened me up.

Todd Bodine

We know there are a lot of good teams gunning for the championship, but we are focused on our job. Its nice to know the competition feels that Ted and I are the guys to beat.

We know the level of competition (we will face) and we're optimistic at this point.

Ludwig von Mises

Servile labour disappeared because it could not stand the competition of free labour; its un-profitability sealed its doom in the market economy.

Ludwig von Mises

The sharper the competition, the better it serves its social function to improve economic production.

Ludwig von Mises

The public firm can nowhere maintain itself in free competition with the private firm; it is possible today only where it has a monopoly that excludes competition. Even that alone is evidence of its lesser economic productivity.

We've been going there for 13 years, and this was probably the toughest competition that we've seen down there.

Over the long-term, competition in search should increase. Growth is still impressive but it's moderating.

Over time, the competition will become even more intense. There will be a time when the margins are impacted a bit.

Tim Scott

Our position should not be on how to eliminate the competition at all expenses, but we should focus on what we're going to do in order to make sure that Americans turn to the road of prosperity with the trajectory of capitalism, because making a profit is not an evil.

Our students won't need to learn any new subjects, but they'll need to know them in greater depth. The state finals will be more difficult, and the competition will be much tougher.

Our store visits suggested that the company's various fascias were discounting earlier and more heavily than the competition and that is rarely a good sign at this time of year.

Our step team has always wanted to have their own competition. And everyone was stressing about their senior project. I figured, well that would be a wonderful program to have for my senior project.

Our role is to maintain and monitor a framework in which fair competition can flourish.

Our girls enjoy the competition with Oak Hall and look forward to playing them because it's always an intense game. We had an up-and-down season this year, we lost eight games by one goal and played a really tough schedule, but Oak Hall played well.

Overall, today was a good day for UNLV vs. some great competition. We also saw some things we need to work on and we look forward to the rest of the weekend.

Overall I'm real pleased at the way we wrestled and how my kids responded to some good competition, I think the kids are continuing to move in the right direction. Right now we've got to keep our focus and take it one match at a time, and concentrate on Laurel Highlands, Friday.

Overall, I like the competitiveness of our team. I know we can make it to conference and I would like to come home with the trophy.

Some of the competition will be pretty stiff. It's a very intense atmosphere, very conducive to good performances.

Ronda Rousey

Somehow, people act like I have no competition, but the thing is, the competition is so good that it forces me to be better than I even thought was possible.