#competition

I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics. ↗

— Nate Silver

#competition #data #discovered #i #like

Advertising as the printed form of selling would seem... ultimately to be justified in so far as it serves as a means of increasing legitimate human wants, as an agency of fair and economic competition in the distribution of goods, and as a stimulant to social progress. ↗

— Daniel Starch

#agency #competition #distribution #economic #fair

The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist. ↗

— George Stigler

#challenge #challenges #chemist #citizens #competition

I don't know if it's just me or everyone, but the whole vibe with skiing is not so much thriving on competition against others as it is against myself and the clock. ↗

— Picabo Street

#clock #competition #everyone #i #just

If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the results of this competition of races will be the "survival of the fittest?" ↗

— Josiah Strong

#america #amiss #any #beyond #central

If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fish and own everything, and then you'll have zero capitalism, zero competition - it would just be one giant company. ↗

— Serj Tankian

#any #capitalism #capitalistic #company #competition

The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other. ↗

— John Clayton

#christ #christmas #competition #complicated #denominational

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

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears. ↗

— Phil McGraw

#bringing #children #competition #distraction #ears

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