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As these contrasts show, capitalism has undergone enormous changes in the last two and a half centur...

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Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.

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Haruki MurakamiWhat I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity ...

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Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

American politics is always an open competition.

The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have ...

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There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the...

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My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who do the work, and those who...

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Homo economicus was surreptitiously taken as the emblem and analogue for all living beings. A mechan...

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Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has fame ...

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Jane AustenJane Austen's Letters

I kinda see everyone as competition. I'm a very competitive person. But I think that's good. Competi...

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Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool...

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My strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I de...

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But my strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And ...

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To thrive, all businesses must focus on the art of self-disruption. Rather than wait for the competi...

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Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Why should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United...

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The fans love the home runs, the home run competition between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.

I always say that I need competition, and I need competition every week, and in Spain, I was at an a...

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I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol...

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The fact that compulsive drives for success will arise only in a competitive culture does not make t...

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Karen HorneyNeurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization

And here it becomes evident that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in socie...

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In the United States, female fisticuffs were marginalized, first as erotic vaudeville in the 19th ce...

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She transcends her sport, which is what any sport needs...And she does it while smiling the whole ti...

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Lance ArmstrongA Life Without Limits: A World Champion's Journey

Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companion...

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Lance ArmstrongIt's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy eno...

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There is not the slightest analogy between playing games and the conduct of business within a market...

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Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution...

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We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrep...

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Regulation is necessary to protect our natural environment, keep our food and medicine safe, and ens...

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All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with ...

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I'm a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.

The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achi...

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[There] are people who make a complete and utter mockery of 'democracy' and 'equality' - they're the...

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Michael PalinDiaries 1969-1979: The Python Years

There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certa...

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I have five boys in the family, and it's constant competition, sport, humor, and practical jokes.

Consulting offered me an opportunity to see a lot of different businesses in different regions of th...

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Genuine self esteem – please understand this – genuine self esteem is not competitive or comparative...

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CHORONZON: I am a dire wolf, prey-stalking, lethal prowler.MORPHEUS: I am a hunter, horse-mounted, w...

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CHORONZON: I am a dire wolf, prey-stalking, lethal prowler.MORPHEUS: I am a hunter, horse-mounted, w...

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You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up th...

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Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competit...

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My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays. There's such a lot of beastly competition abo...

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Oscar WildeThe Importance of Being Earnest

You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mind...

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There is a consensus of willing leaders from both parties coalescing around the right way forward in...

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There is a consensus of willing leaders from both parties coalescing around the right way forward in...

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There is a consensus of willing leaders from both parties coalescing around the right way forward in...

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There is a consensus of willing leaders from both parties coalescing around the right way forward in...

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The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distract...

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The U.K. has to keep investing in new technology, skills, and infrastructure to keep pace with inter...

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Angelina, I think of you as my friend, the dearest of friends, and it tortures me to go against you,...

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The single best thing we can do is expand competition. Let people purchase health insurance across s...

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Might not too much investment in teaching Shelley mean falling behind our economic competitors? But ...

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We are the bourgeoisie—the third estate, as they call us now—and what we want is a nobility of merit...

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Thomas MannBuddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

if you gone come in second, you're just the first loser!

There is no such thing as "healthy" competition within a knowledge organization; all internal compet...

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Any vigorous competition will entail at least two elements: offense and defense. Offense is the effo...

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Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse th...

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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallo...

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I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.

Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-...

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There are some aspects of work you need to keep working on and no matter what environment you are in...

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I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

Google, you fucking ripped off the iPhone, wholesale ripped us off. Grand theft. I will spend my las...

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So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, th...

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The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

DJs are in incredible competition, musically. And they are the most musically creative and sensitive...

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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed ...

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I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's in...

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Good tennis players are those who beat other tennis players, and a good shot during play is one the ...

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Alfie KohnThe Myth of the Spoiled Child: Coddled Kids

Small mind competes, big mind collaborates and great mind encompasses.

World is a multi-dimensional reality. At lower level it is full with unconsciousness and competitive...

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And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, ...

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Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the...

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Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that t...

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If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. B...

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In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of wher...

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Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others ...

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On one level, a roomful of men is always a dangerous thing. Competition is usually in the air, so th...

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Brennan ManningAll Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir

I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade...

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If there are still honest-smart men and women within those old and noble traditions, they should thi...

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Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science...

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Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

Be careful... any time you find yourself defining the "winner" as someone other than the agent who i...

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Be careful... any time you find yourself defining the "winner" as someone other than the agent who i...

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That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual chan...

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I don’t think writers compete, I think they’re all doing separate things in their own style.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, h...

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The PC is successful because we're all benefiting from the competition with each other. If Twitter c...

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The phrase "it's better to be lucky than good" must be one of the most ridiculous homilies ever utte...

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Garry KasparovDeep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins

Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the la...

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Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all tha...

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Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all tha...

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