#competition

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

— Victor Kiam

#business #competition #keep #running #stand

Has she glanced you way yet?" Twice," Nick said on a note of satisfaction. Meaning?" Nick glanced at him. "She's not completely disinterested." I see Moreland. That makes it an even half dozen hanging out for a rich wife. Four looking for their second. Rossman, the old satyr, certainly isn't likely to be much competition. What in the hell does he think he's doing anyway? He must be sixty." Basking, I should think. She hasn't given him the cold shoulder yet," Nick responded coolly. ↗

— Jaide Fox

#courting #humor #romance #humor

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

He was working that charm right now on the trainer who kneeled before him and touched his thigh as though it were the thigh of David, Michelangelo’s glorious statue come to life right here on court. ↗

— A.G. Starling

#contemporary-romance #david #game #love #michelangelo

In this day and time, with no competition you are really walking a tightrope. I mean you may think that no competition is good, but in reality no competition is really bad. ↗

— Jerry Lawler

#competition #day #good #i #may

The competition is so fierce once you become an adult. I'll probably move on to something else. ↗

— Jodie Sweetin

#become #competition #else #fierce #i

They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers. ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

#come #competition #customers #end #endure

In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#because #britain #calling #competition #complete

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

— Richard Branson

#bleeding #blood #competition #getting #into

A lot of my friends aren't working, especially since fewer films are being made now and there's more competition. ↗

— Lily Collins

#competition #especially #fewer #films #friends