#competition

Fredrick gazed into the deep blue eyes of Jackson for a few seconds before answering. “I’d like the best room in the hotel.”
 “We have hundreds of rooms here, and all of them are the best.”
 “How can they all be number one? Only one can be number one.”
 “Ah, this is true. And this is false. What’s the best to you may be worst to someone else. Since every room here is completely different, each room is number one to someone, even if that same room is number two to someone else.”
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— Jarod Kintz

#competition #customer-service #funny #guest-service #hospitality

Hmm…” Jason snapped his fingers. “I can call a friend for a ride.” Percy raised his eyebrows. “Oh, yeah? Me too. Let's see whose friend gets here first. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#flying-horses #heroes-of-olympus #humor #jason-grace #percy-jackson

Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#egotism #men #struggle #men

A good career is a long-lasting career. When you're there in every competition doing a good job you're a part of an elite, and that's the most important thing. ↗

— Blanka Vlasic

#competition #doing #elite #every #good

The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there. ↗

— Gregg Allman

#beatles #come #competition #everybody #had

Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let's talk about the patient. The patient doesn't need a war. ↗

— Donald Berwick

#care #come #companies #compete #competition

Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank. ↗

— Richard Branson

#bleeding #blood #competition #getting #into

Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition. ↗

— Trishelle Cannatella

#because #competition #i #just #like

My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories, that was my brother Ed. As a child, I just absorbed everything they said, and I was always in competition for the laughs. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#billy #brother #child #competition #cutting

Olympics is global competition in which eighty, ninety, hundred, hundred and ten countries participate. ↗

— George Pataki

#countries #eighty #global #hundred #ninety