110 Competitive Person Quotes
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Famous Competitive Person Quotes
With competition everyone has to try harder. — Harold H. Greene
Competition is a tough weed, not a delicate flower. — George Stigler
Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs. — Henry Ford
The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win. — Tom Brady
Compete for deals, low returns, slender margin of error — Howard Marks
Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results. — Jerry Flint
I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling! — Zac Efron
I'm a competitive person and I love the challenge of mastering new things. — Sasha Cohen
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. — Henry Ford
There is no either / or between being competitive and collaborative. You have to be both and decide which in each situation. — Cathie Black
When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. — Pat Riley
Ever since I was a little kid, I was competitive. — Mariano Rivera
If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place. — Criss Jami
Be fiercely competitive with yourself. Ignore everyone else. — Alex Hormozi
School, politics, sports, and games train us to compete against others. — Naval Ravikant
Short Competitive Person Quotes
- Competition is merely the absence of oppression. — Frederic Bastiat
- A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change. — Lester Thurow
- The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort. — Colin Powell
- Competition only exists in your head, not in the marketplace. — Isaac Mashman
- I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing. — Roger Waters
- If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete. — Jack Welch
- Ethics is the new competitive environment — Peter Robinson
- We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed. — Sandy Duncan
- Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses. — Bruce Henderson
- Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will. — Ron Blomberg
Competitive Person Image Quotes
Very Competitive Person Quotes
I'm a different person off the court than I am on the court, where I'm very competitive, a perfectionist, and I can be hard on myself sometimes. Off the court, nothing really bothers me. I'm easy-going. — Mary Pierce
I have a discipline that has served me very well in my career and in my personal life... and that's gotten stronger as I've gotten older. I've always felt if I don't just have a natural knack for it, I will just out-discipline the competition if I have to -- work harder than anybody else. — Ryan Reynolds
Shanghainese people are good negotiators, they're very persistent, and you grow up in an atmosphere like that - very competitive. That becomes part of your personality, Shanghai personality becomes part of yours. — Amy Tan
I was very athletic when I was younger and I am a very competitive person, so I never give up. — Izabella Scorupco
There are cliques in Bollywood, and people stick together, but I have always tried to stick to my work. As an industry, Bollywood is very competitive, and I'm very competitive as a person, but I've never been a part of any clique, and I've always worked with all actors and directors, all camps. — Priyanka Chopra
I'm a very competitive person, whether it's school, baseball or even playing video games. — David Price
I find motivation within myself. I run track not from a competitive Nature, but because I'm a very goal-oriented person. — Gail Devers
I would like to say that I am a very relaxed, loving person who is not competitive, but that's a lie! — Julie Bowen
I kinda see everyone as competition. I'm a very competitive person. But I think that's good. Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool. — Janet Jackson
I think competition is very important; it breeds many good things in a person. — Brian McBride
Competitive Spirit Quotes
If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and goals, we will always be in self-defeating competition with each other. Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love. — Muhammad Ali
Anyone who believes the competitive spirit in America is dead has never been in a supermarket when the cashier opens another check-out line. — Ann Landers
We've lost our competitive spirit. We've become so obsessed with making kids feel good about themselves that we've lost sight of building the skills they need to actually be good at things. — Michelle Rhee
I'm not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I'm doing. So if I'm playing basketball, if I'm taking the SATs, like, there's a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it's the same thing. — J. Cole
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through. — Germaine Greer
Train the body and develop stamina and endurance. But the spirit of competition and power that presides over them is not good, it reflects a distorted vision of life. The root of the martial arts is not there. — Taisen Deshimaru
The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on. — Eric Cantona
The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us. — John Towner Williams
Only three or four outs directly affect the outcome of any given game...One of the greatest challenges of pitching is to recognize these critical situations and rise to the occasion with consistency and a competitive spirit. — Tom Seaver
Being Competitive Quotes
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition. — Indira Gandhi
Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition. — John Smith
Competitive strategy is about being different. It means deliberately choosing a different set of activities to deliver a unique mix of value. — Michael Porter
Strategy is about setting yourself apart from the competition. It's not a matter of being better at what you do - it's a matter of being different at what you do. — Michael Porter
My biggest competition is always myself. I mean no disrespect, but I do not look at any of the guys as being my competition for the simple reason that I can't control how they're going to look. I can only control how I look. — Ronnie Coleman
Fighter pilot is an attitude. It is cockiness. It is aggressiveness. It is self-confidence. It is a streak of rebelliousness, and it is competitiveness. But there's something else - there's a spark. There's a desire to be good. To do well; in the eyes of your peers, and in your own mind. — Robin Olds
Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Be authentic to escape competition, find what you know how to do better than anybody because you love to do it and it feels like play, and get to retirement. — Naval Ravikant
The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled. — Josiah Strong
You do not want to compete, you want to be a market of one. — Naval Ravikant
Good Competitive Quotes
The way I saw it was, if I had the built-in following and the audience, but I also had the skill set of acting, that would shoot me to the top. Because there's so many good actors. There's so many good-looking people. But the X factor now is social media. — Jake Paul
If you are unable to compete with the pious in their good deeds, compete with the sinful in their repentance. — Ibn Rajab
Competition between women is good only if it does not prevail; that is to say if it coexists with affinity, affection, with a real sense of being mutually indispensable, with sudden peaks of solidarity in spite of envy, jealousy and the whole inevitable cohort of bad feelings. — Elena Ferrante
Winning and losing are both very temporary things. Having done one or the other, you move ahead. Gloating over a victory or sulking over a loss is a good way to stand still. — Chuck Knox
I helped several of my competitors get started. People seem to think we ought to hate each other, but we’ve stayed good friends. — Glen Bell
There will always be people who can do it better than you, but that's a good thing! Start to see competition as inspiration — without envy. — Kathryn Budig
The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way. — Richard Stallman
Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one. — Niki Lauda
To a good cat, a good rat. — French Proverbs
There's always competition, especially in the EDM scene, but that keeps me motivated and focused. Everybody is really friendly though. I always enjoy seeing other guys at gigs or festivals. So yeah, there is competition but there are also lots of good vibes. — Martin Garrix
People Writing About Competitive Person
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 Henry Ford |
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 Harold H. Greene |
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 George Stigler |
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 Tom Brady |
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 Howard Marks |
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 Zac Efron |
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More Competitive Person Quotes
It is the ultimate challenge of you against yourself. Everyone has different genetics, structure, etc. But at the end of the day, I can always challenge myself to beat the me from yesterday. — Layne Norton
My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me. — Gary Vaynerchuk
School, politics, sports, and games train us to compete against others. True rewards – wealth, knowledge, love, fitness, and equanimity – come from ignoring others and improving ourselves. — Naval Ravikant
The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away. — Walter Wriston
The only competition you have is the person you were yesterday. — MrBeast
I love what I do. I don't do it for the money. I work on behalf of investors that I like and want to do well for. I'm a competitive person. — Bill Ackman
When I stopped caring about every other content creator, I became the best one. — Jake Paul
Another person’s progress is an affirmation of what’s possible, not a reason to doubt your own. The people you envy are not your competition, they are your mentors. — Brianna Wiest
These are very difficult times for new artists. Back in the day, a hit song could really seep into a person's DNA with radio and MTV. A hit today is not the same as a hit twenty years ago. Now there is so much competition, it is very hard to reach the people. The music scene is so overly saturated. There are no gatekeepers like there used to be. — Vivian Campbell
Competition in its best form is a test of self. It has nothing to do with medals. The winner is the person who gets the most out of themselves. — Al Oerter
Most people who do a lot of exercise, particularly in the form of competitive athletics, have unneurotic, extraverted, optimistic personalities to begin with. (Marathon runners are exceptions to this.) — Robert M. Sapolsky
The bodybuilding world has lost one of its greatest legends. I had a chance to speak with Steve Michalik a year ago at The Upper State Bodybuilding competition. We laughed and shared our personal opinions about bodybuilding [today's scene and how it was in the past]. Steve, we'll miss you. R.I.P. — Lee Haney
When your Islamic discourse with someone becomes a debate, that's when you know that you have to stop. The psychology of a debate is like a sports competition, and no one likes to lose. So even if you make a good point, the other person isn't going to congratulate you. They are thinking about revenge. — Nouman Ali Khan
I've found that a person does not need protein from meat to be a successful athlete. In fact, my best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet. — Carl Lewis
We humans have always sought to increase our personal energy in the only manner we have known, by seeking to psychologically steal it from the others--an unconscious competition that underlies all human conflict in the world. — James Redfield
I love competition and really going for it and doing my best, but losing isn't really upsetting to me. I feel like if I do lose, the other person really deserved it. — Corbin Bleu
Small groups of persons can, and do, make the rest of us think what they please about a given subject. But there are usually proponents and opponents of every propaganda, both of whom are equally eager to convince the majority. — Edward Bernays
Sisters are the worst. And they are the best. A sister can be awful and complicated and loving and protective and petty and competitive, and when you die she is the person you want beside you holding your hand. Somebody's gotta organize the potluck after the service and you know your husband's not gonna be up to the job. — Cathy Lamb
In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity. — C. S. Lewis
Today knowledge is free. It's like air, it's like water... There's no competitive advantage to knowing more than the person next to you. The world doesn't care what you know. What the world cares about is what you can do with what you know. — Tony Wagner
If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder. — Magic Johnson
All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism. — Edward Bond
Actions which are conscious expressions of the turn-on, tune-in, drop-out rhythm are religious.The wise person devotes his life exclusively to the religious search - for therein is found the only ecstasy, the only meaning. Anything else is a competitive quarrel over (or Hollywood-love sharing of) studio props. — Timothy Leary
I am personally convinced - and I think the Greek people share this belief in a fundamental way - that we can achieve fiscal consolidation more effectively and we can restore competitiveness in a more fundamental and permanent way within the euro area than outside. — Lucas Papademos
America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams. — David Brooks
The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person. — Lafcadio Hearn
I've had a lot of consoles as a kid so there has always been something that I've done as a pastime or with friends and for personal enjoyment. I don't play many sports so it gives me an opportunity to have that same competitive feeling and the same reward when you win but using different techniques. It's much more mental. — Asa Butterfield
I feel like I'm the most competitive driver in the motorhome lot. No matter what it is - whether we're racing, playing another sport or deciding who can run to that sign and back faster - I feel like I'm the most competitive person alive. — Denny Hamlin
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. — Laila Ali
I'm a competitive person, but I have never understood people's competitiveness at the expense of their colleagues. — Geraldine Ferraro
A very awkward situation occurs often in New York City when you are walking down a relatively empty sidewalk and there happens to be a person walking right next to you in the same direction as you at the exact same pace as you. I never know whether to pass or draft. It becomes sort of a strange competition. — Aaron Karo
The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals. — Keith Henson
I think my career would probably be in a better place had I been more aggressive. But I don't have it in me. I'm not a competitive person, and I'm also really private. — Debi Mazar
I'm a free market person, a free trader. But if we had a market in California, there would be competition. — Anna Eshoo
Firms that fully embrace the needs and interests of the whole person will win today's competition for the best talent. — Stewart D. Friedman
I am a competitive person with myself. I always find new goals to achieve, new challenges to breakthrough, and I try and do something new every day. And I'm highly competitive with myself. — Hilary Swank
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