#competition

The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect that is most apparent. I have seen how, through sport, cities and corporations compete against each other for financial gain. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#ancient #apparent #aspect #athletics #cities

To survive, China had to open up to the West. It could not survive otherwise. This was after many millions have died of hunger in a country that was like North Korea is today. Once we became part of global competition, we had to agree to some rules. It's painful, but we had to. Otherwise there was no way to survive. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#agree #became #china #competition #could

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

— Jack Welch

#bury #buy #cash #communicate #competition

I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

#competition #considered #consumers #create #domestic

You learn so much from competition you gain confidence every time you have to step up and perform. ↗

— Natalie Gulbis

#confidence #every #every time #gain #learn

Labour have been listening for too long to the so-called experts who think that competition is a dirty word and that communicating facts to our children is elitist. ↗

— William Hague

#children #communicating #competition #dirty #elitist

I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all good friends. ↗

— Jim Henson

#anybody #competition #felt #friends #good

No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style. ↗

— Jim Henson

#between #competition #everybody #general #much

The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#built #competition #design #did #financially

Katarina Witt. She was the ultimate competitor. She would just stare down people before competition. She was relentless on the ice. ↗

— Sarah Hughes

#competition #competitor #down #ice #just