#comp

The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it. ↗

— Thomas J. Sargent

#equilibrium #expectations #first #function #likelihood

Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people. ↗

— David Sarnoff

#brings #competition #out #people #products

The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self. ↗

— George Saunders

#being broke #best #between #broke #capitalism

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#breadth #compassion #creatures #depth #does

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do. ↗

— Roy L. Smith

#business #competitors #finds #his #man

I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it. ↗

— David O. Russell

#cinema #compelling #creating #experience #fiction

Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration. ↗

— Mike Rutherford

#balance #band #being #collaboration #compromise

The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original stories where I had complete freedom to evolve in the direction I wanted. ↗

— Walter Salles

#complete #complete freedom #did #direction #done

Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly. ↗

— R. A. Salvatore

#also #authors #both #competition #honestly

As competitive as I am, I want to get the best of a play and make sure to use it's full potential even when things break down. But sometimes you need to just say 'uncle' and let it go and avoid a hit. ↗

— Mark Sanchez

#avoid #best #break #competitive #down