Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses.
Better to take smart risks and focus on winning because, if you don't, your competition will!
They gave me away as a prize once - a Win Tony Curtis For A Weekend competition. The woman who won was disappointed. She'd hoped for second prize - a new stove.
Even if we were friends, I consider this a sport, a competition, so there are no ill feelings towards any other fighter or whatever.
Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!
The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.
When I broke in, in 1957, it was wide open. Now you're up against strong competition.
After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.
MMA was like wrestling; I love competition.
First off, it's wonderful how much people are supporting me and felt I should have stayed in the competition.
Competition leads both drug companies and private regulators to be trustworthy. If they are not trustworthy, they die.
I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that.
The Olympics are always a special competition, it is very difficult to predict what will happen.
Having no competition is a bad thing. Competition makes you try to improve yourself all the time.
As soon as I hear the word 'competition' I get serious and start doing everything that I can do.
When you are in the big competition for the first time, you grow, and then you lose something when you go back into your own competition.
We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.
We had a great group of guys when I was there, five of us, I think. It's a great competition. Every practice was hard. I think that's helped us a lot, everybody that was there.
America's peak years of indigenous innovation ran from the 1820s to the 1960s. There were a few financial panics and two depressions, to be sure. But in this period, a frenzy of creative activity, economic competition and rapid growth in national income provided widening economic inclusion, rising wages for all, and engaging careers for most.
Competition is very good... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better.
Many of those who have paid the ultimate price for freedom have come through the wrestling ranks. We need to honor them and win this decision to have wrestling - the world's oldest sport - remain a part of the most prestigious athletic competition in the world, the Olympics.
The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea.
I am so proud of being a Paralympian because I think the Games are a very good platform for disabled persons to perform themselves. Within the Paralympics movement, it's not just talk about excellence; it's not just talk about the competition. It's also talk about the equality and how your world accepts those disabled people.
Reality is a genre that seems to be here to stay. I don't know how many of the new shows will last, but the more competition you have, the harder that pie is to slice up.
Olympic medals are the one medal that I don't have; I've won just about every other competition that I've been at.
I like to be just an athlete, but if I go to competition and compete, I love to be a star, maybe.
I think we all have had better days in competition.
Plagiarism has been around far longer than the Internet. In fact, I had a poem published in 'Seventeen' magazine when I was 15 years old. About a year later I was informed that there was a girl who used that same poem to win a statewide poetry competition in Alabama. It took months for people to put together that this had happened.
Regulation is necessary to protect our natural environment, keep our food and medicine safe, and ensure fair competition and fair treatment of our workers.
Well, nine times out of ten when you have 2 or 3 stars in a household you have an unfortunate amount of competition that's not necessarily a healthy competition.
Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.
The limit is not as narrow as it might be. I do not claim for this action, as it now goes on, an ideal degree of efficiency. What I do claim is that this type of competition already reveals its nature and its ultimate power to hold seeming monopolies in check.
Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary.
The public is looking for free lunches, and the political competition for votes makes the politicians offer them free lunches.
The benefit is competition, the thrill of playing in the Olympics, being an Olympian, playing against the best.
