Aphorisms and quotes about competition

Antagonistic cooperation is a fundamental principle of any market and many marriages. Mason Cooley

Any competition by its nature is just frenzied plagiarism. Gilbert Chesterton

Contrary to what economists have been saying for more than two centuries, the alternative to a monopoly in a developed, large market is not free competition, that is, an unlimited number of participants in a given industrial production, but oligopoly - competition between a fairly small number of producers or suppliers. Peter Drucker

Competition is centralized planning carried out by many independent individuals. Friedrich Hayek

Competition produces the best quality products and brings out the worst qualities in people. David Sarnoff

Competition is the life of trade and the death of traders. Elbert Hubbard

Trade has never ruined a single nation. Benjamin Franklin

There is nothing more beneficial to the people than free trade, and nothing more unpopular. Thomas Macaulay

The price resulting from free competition (...) is the lowest that can be accepted, while the monopoly price is the highest that can be obtained. Adam Smith

Where there is no competition, you sleep better, but live worse.

Ask an audience of entrepreneurs what the most satisfying sound in the world is, and they'll tell you it's the crunch of new banknotes or the thud of a competitor's lifeless body hitting the pavement. Harvey Mackay

While you are running, your competitors are nipping at you from behind; but if you stop, they will eat you. William Knudsen

If a competitor sells cheaper than you, this is dumping; if you sell cheaper, it's mass production. Will Rogers

Those who have inherited a store or farm from their father most readily talk about free enterprise and the fact that the best wins in competition. Wright Mills

UNFAIR COMPETITION: Sell cheaper than anyone else. Ralph Harris, The Popular Guide to Economic Jargon

Planning and competition can only be combined by planning for competition, not planning against competition. Friedrich Hayek

Monopoly is a business at the end of its journey. Henry Lloyd

Monopoly in any form is a taxation of industry to support indolence, if not robbery. John Stuart Mill

Why do we only have one Antimonopoly Committee? Graffiti (England, 1987)

It's not just that all evolution is based on competition; continuous competition is necessary even to maintain what has been achieved. Friedrich Hayek

The world is coming. And our old-fashioned meanness can't stand the competition. Arkady Davidovich

Competition and mutual assistance are two sides of the manifestation of the instinct of self-preservation. Hans Selye

In most cases, competition becomes dramatic only where two species have recently come into contact, or where a radical change in environmental conditions has upset a pre-existing dynamic equilibrium. E. Mayer

Competition produces the best quality products and brings out the worst qualities in people. David Sarnoff

Planning and competition can only be combined by planning for competition, not planning against competition. Friedrich Hayek

If in a competitive economy the last resort is the bailiff, then in a planned economy it is the executioner. Unknown author

Where there is no competition, you sleep better, but live worse. Unknown author

Competition is the life of trade and the death of traders. Elbert Hubbard

Let us remain human: we cannot withstand competition with brutes. Arkady Davidovich

Those who claim that the spirit of competition in America is dead have never been in a supermarket when another checkout starts working at the exit. Ann Landers

The interest of entrepreneurs is always to expand the market and limit competition. Market expansion may often be in the public interest; but restriction of competition must always go against them. Adam Smith

Horses harnessed to a chariot run faster than alone, not because with their combined efforts they cut through the air more easily, but because they are fueled by competition and rivalry with each other. Plutarch

In a certain sense, financial conflicts are more fierce and ruthless than even military ones: in war one can at least distinguish enemy from friend. B. F. Winkelman

Nothing clears your mind like the sight of a competitor who wants to gobble you up. Wayne Callaway

Nobody remembers the name of the one who finished second. Charles Schultz

Only the first dog in the sled admires the scenery. "The Dog Sled Principle"

First we will become the best, and only then we will become the first. Grant Tinker

There is no finish line. Nike Corporation Motto

In business, no chance is lost: if you ruin it, your competitor will find it.

In business, the success of one does not necessarily mean the failure of others; there can be many winners. Adam Brandenburger and Barry Nalebuff, American management experts

Two telegrams arrived at the head office of a shoe company from a certain underdeveloped country. The first one said: “There is no shoe market here - no one wears shoes.” In the second: “The shoe market here is excellent - no one wears shoes.” Arnold Goldstein

Competition-based capitalism promotes political freedom because the separation of economic power from political power makes them counterweights to each other. Milton Friedman

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Dear competitors!

It's great that we have you! Because you definitely need to have some kind of reference point, to compare with someone and something, in order to objectively evaluate your activities.

And we are very grateful to you that you provide us with this opportunity. That as a result we feel more confident, powerful and invulnerable.

God grant that all other competitors are like you!

Price, quality, availability, service - all belong to business categories that competitors can copy. What is truly unique is your company culture or brand.

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Competition is great because as a result we only become stronger. In any case, visitors vote with their feet: if they come, it means they voted for us. (George Cohon)

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“Everyone wants to be the first, but will the first allow it?” (Veselin Georgiev)

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“I love my enemies, although not in a Christian way. They amuse me, they stir my blood. To be always on the alert, to catch every glance, the meaning of every word, to guess intentions, to destroy conspiracies, to pretend to be deceived, and suddenly with one push to overturn the entire huge and laborious edifice of tricks and plans - this is what I call life. (Mikhail Lermontov “Hero of Our Time”).

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“Horses harnessed to a chariot run faster than alone, not because with their combined efforts they cut through the air more easily, but because they are fueled by competition and rivalry with each other.” (Plutarch)

*** “In business, not a single chance is lost: if you ruin it, your competitor will find it. The whole secret of business is to know something that no one else knows.” (Aristotle Onassis)

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“Competition is like tea bags. The longer you ignore it, the more it thickens. “Whoever fights may lose, whoever doesn’t fight has already lost.”

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A fable about a bear who was afraid of competition.

There lived in a spruce forest behind a raging river a huge, greedy and lazy bear. His entire character was expressed in his desire to eat more without hassle. One morning, as always, at a leisurely pace, Toptygin went fishing. He came to the shore, looked at the place, sat down on a tree in the middle of the shallow water and began to beat the prey with a heavy paw: One, the second... Only the clubfoot looked at the third in the icy water, When the cat came and sat down not far away - He was just getting ready to go fishing too! The bear is looking, and this cat is coming in. He has already lashed the water with his paw - The scales are flashing. The bear sighed: “He’ll catch all the damned fish!” But he can’t do it himself, the kittens and all his other relatives will help, and they won’t leave me anything. I’d better go and refresh myself with raspberries...” In his hearts, the bear abandoned his fishing and, grumbling dissatisfied at the cats, he wandered off, breaking bushes in the heat of the moment. Having calmed down a little on the way, he came to the raspberry patch and saw: there were a lot of berries, There was both aroma and silence all around - You can eat from dawn to dark! But as soon as Toptygin got down to business, a little bird flew in front of his nose: Grab the berry. Am! Grab another one. The bear thought after her: “Well, well! Where can I compete with such agility! I’d better go and dig up some roots...” But as soon as I started, the mouse was right there. The bear is sad again: “Everything will be chewed up by people like her... there are countless of them here! Looks like it’s time to go to the village to hunt - I’ll sneak into the barn and drag the heifer away, Where to go, there’s longing in my belly...” I waited until nightfall to go to work, but I met a wolf. My thoughts began to spin: “He’s probably going to the village for a heifer, And where there’s one, there’s a whole flock!” And so I decided: “Well, this forest is lost! It’s time for me to go to another thicket, Maybe at least there won’t be anyone there.” Since then, they have often seen him, here and there - wandering, shabby, skinny, from forest to forest, from copse to grove, I still haven’t understood one thing - It’s not he who should be afraid, but him! This story will repeat itself with anyone who is afraid of competition, who is strong, but is not ready in spirit. Do not pay attention to the “cats”.

Author. Olesya Emelyanova. 2005

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A ballad about competition.

Who will tell me, well, at least briefly - Otherwise it’s time to shout: “Guard!” – Where can one go from competition? How to survive surrounded by sharks? Today business is not a game of hunting. While you sleep or drink your absinthe, Beware: Your most terrible, vile competitor will rush down your throat. I recently brought a product to the market And I thought it would blow everyone away, And there are people like sheets in the laundry, And the buyer has become picky, a parasite! Such sad things! There is a variety of goods for every taste and color: There are ladies' edible panties and an inedible set lunch. I've seen last year's snow on sale, Donut Hole and Rabbit Hole, Harry Potter Stew and even Black Sun Cream, I'm not lying! Everything is cheap: apparently from China, you can’t beat their prices; They give an ermine coat for a ruble, and a philosopher's stone for a triple. I wasted away from creative work, I forgot about sleep, about food, about football. I strained my brains until I vomited, but I never invented anything. And the competitor is raking in his money, And the carcass is already playing in his honor, After all, “loser” means “beggar,” And the winner takes the jackpot. And although I have weakened in the battle, I will pounce on the enemy for the last time: I will become a purple cow and hang my competitor by the horns.

Statements About Competition