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Quotations
 | When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 8 likes |
 | 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 Roosevelt, 1882-1945, American President [1936-1945] 5 likes |
 | Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents. — Charles de Gaulle, 1890-1970, French President 4 likes |
 | The day you stop racing, is the day you win the race. — Bob Marley, 1945-1981, Jamaican singer 4 likes |
 | I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously. — Bill Gates, 1955-, American businessman 3 likes |
 | A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 2 likes |
| “Free competition enforced by law” is a grotesque contradiction in terms. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 2 likes |
 | I don’t have friends or enemies, I have competitors. — Aristotle Onassis, 1900-1975, Greek tycoon 2 likes |
 | Never compete with a man who has nothing to lose. |
 | Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers. |
 | If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us. |
 | Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. |
 | Free competition is worth more to society than it costs. |
 | What keeps a man alive? He feeds on others. |
 | A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation. |
 | The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet. |
 | Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove. |
 | The more you make people alike, the more competition you have. Competition is based on the principle of conformity. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
 | Death is like a competition where everyone hopes to be last. — Maurice Chapelan, 1906-1992, French author of maxims & journalist |
 | In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, for someone to play against himself is absurd... It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow. |
Funny Quotes
 | The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up. — Steven Wright, 1955-, American comedian 4 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | Potter bears a grudge against potter, and craftsman against craftsman, and beggar is envious of beggar, and bard of bard. Και κεραμεύς κεραμεί κοτέει και τέκτονι τέκτων και πτωχός πτωχώ φθονέει και αοιδός αοιδώ. — Hesiod, 7th cent. BC, Ancient Greek poet ‐ Works and Days -26 3 likes |
Special Quotes
 | We’re number two. We try harder. — Advertising slogan for Avis car rentals 2 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | Magic Mirror on the Wall. Who is the fairest one of all? — from the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) 5 likes |
