Hip hop has always been braggin‘ and boasting and ‚I’m better at you than this‘ and ‚I’m better at you than that.‘
EminemIf you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people, outmaneuvering these people, it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.
Conor McGregorWhen you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
Dwight D. EisenhowerI don’t think so, in that Virgin is already a global brand. Brands like Amazon have had to spend hundreds of millions of pounds you know, building their brands, whereas Virgin is already well-known around the world.
Richard BransonApple’s market share is bigger than BMW’s or Mercedes’s or Porsche’s in the automotive market. What’s wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?
Steve JobsDon’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.
Colin PowellLook at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.
Colin PowellWe polled Tesla owners, do you want autopilot disabled or not. Not one person wanted it disabled. That’s pretty telling.
Elon MuskEducation levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.
Joyce MeyerGreat American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.
Dan QuayleI was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.
LeBron JamesI wish we could be private with Tesla. It actually makes us less efficient to be a public company.
Elon MuskKeeping score is for games, not friendships.
John C. MaxwellI think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.
Bill GatesThe true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.
Tom BradySome people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.
Lady GagaIf the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.
Thomas SowellI love Notting Hill and Westbourne Grove – there is so much life and vitality around Portobello and Ladbroke Grove. It has come up a lot since I started Virgin more than 40 years ago, but there is so much character.
Richard BransonBattle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
George S. PattonTo make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘
Muhammad AliCompetition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
Franklin D. RooseveltTo me, being the best means proving it in different countries and championships.
Cristiano RonaldoIf you don’t have sustainable energy, you have unsustainable energy. The fundamental value of a company like Tesla is the degree to which it accelerates the advent of sustainable energy faster than it would otherwise occur.
Elon MuskI really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It’s a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that’s what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.
Elon MuskWe all started playing football against our best friends, and I can’t remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.
Jurgen KloppThe potential financial reward for building the ‚next Windows‘ is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.
Bill GatesSectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
John SteinbeckWar grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
Napoleon HillCompetition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
Herbert HooverObviously Tesla is about helping solve the consumption of energy in a sustainable manner, but you need the production of energy in a sustainable manner.
Elon MuskI’m trying to get to Mars before everyone else.
The WeekndI think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.
Tom BradyAll of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiAmbition must be made to counteract ambition.
James MadisonDuke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.
Hunter S. ThompsonObviously everybody, if you’re playing in the league, you’ve got to have somewhat of an ego about how you play the game.
Stephen CurryWe’re very focused on making News Feed really good, making our photos experience really good, making messaging really good, and creating great location apps. That’s the nature of a platform business of our scale. Most companies that are relevant to us will have some overlaps in some competitive way.
Mark ZuckerbergPeople just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.
Kobe BryantAt United, there are great traditions, which you can’t buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.
Cristiano RonaldoSerious sport is war minus the shooting.
George OrwellI’ve never gone into business to make money. Every Virgin product and service has been made into a reality to make a positive difference in people’s lives. And by focusing on the happiness of our customers, we have been able to build a successful group of companies.
Richard BransonMy goal is to be number one in MMA.
Conor McGregorIt has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
John SteinbeckI enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.
Conor McGregorI’d love to go into WWE and have a real knock and see what’s what.
Conor McGregorThe victor belongs to the spoils.
F. Scott FitzgeraldI suppose Virgin is an unusual brand in that I suspect we’re the only ‚way of life‘ brand in the world. We’re one of maybe the top 30 best known brands in the world, yet if you look at the other 29, they all specialize in one area. Whether it’s Google, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, etc., they all generally specialize in one area.
Richard BransonI was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.
Ayrton SennaI’ve actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don’t mean hybrid, I mean fully electric.
Elon MuskIn war there is no prize for runner-up.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIn this industry, there’s a lot of cases of being a competitor in one way, but you’re often a customer and a vendor in another way. It’s not atypical in aerospace. Actually, it’s not that atypical in a lot of industries.
Jeff BezosI speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.
Jackie RobinsonI think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It’s the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.
Elon MuskMy first win feels better than a draw!
Jurgen KloppIf the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. ‚Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that’s mass production.
Will RogersMarathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world’s best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL.
Hunter S. ThompsonRule number one is: Beat your team-mate.
Lando NorrisI’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.
Taylor SwiftGod is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
VoltaireOften people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.
Robert Greene