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Results of search for Quote or Author: competition - Page 1 of 2
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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.
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Jerry Flint, in Forbes
You don't need to outdo the competition. It's expensive and defensive. Underdo your competition. We need more simplicity and clarity.
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Jason Fried, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
The bars of West Hollywood and New York are awash with people throwing their lives away in the desperate hope of finding a shortcut, any shortcut. And a lot of them aren't even young anymore; their B-plans having been washed away by Vodka & Tonics years ago.
Meanwhile their competition is at home, working their asses off.
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Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 14. Dying young is overrated., 08-22-04
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.
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Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984)
I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.
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Larry Page, University of Michigan Commencement Address, 2009

Results from Classic Quotes:

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
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Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984)
The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.
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William Van Horne
Good coaches teach respect for the opposition, love of competition, the value of trying your best, and how to win and lose graciously.
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Brooks Clark

Results from Cole's Quotables:

The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935), (dissent, Abrams v. United States, 1919)
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