Competition

Quotes on Competition, the rivalry of two or more parties over something. Competition occurs naturally between living organisms which coexist in the same environment. For example, animals compete over water supplies, food, and mates. In addition, humans compete for attention, wealth, prestige, and fame.

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• Thou shalt not covet, but tradition
  Approves all forms of competition.
  • Arthur Hugh Clough, "The Latest Decalogue", lines 19-20
  • Published in The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough...Volume II: Poems (1869), page 186

• Most lobbying is pro-business, in the sense that it promotes the interests of existing businesses, not pro-market in the sense of fostering truly free and open competition.
  • Luigi Zingales, "Capitalism After the Crisis", National Affairs, issue 1 (Fall 2009), retrieved on 2012-10-17

Unsourced

• The more unfair competition, the better.
  • Milton Friedman, as quoted by Michael Ignatieff on the BBC Radio 4's program 20:20 (5 February 1997)

• Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition — in having put forth the best within you
  • Henry J. Kaiser

• In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running; if you stand still, they will swallow you.
  • William S. Knudsen