In 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.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.

As more airlines consolidated and grew larger and more focused on the bottom line, flying in the U.S. became an awful experience. Despite moves to block our airline from flying, Virgin America began service in August 2007 – with the goal of making flying good again.

If you’re competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.

Just as I wanted to outdo everyone when I played, I had to outdo everyone when we were out on the town.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

I’ve done a number of Super Bowl ads. And that is the best advertising of the year. That is when people realize they’re going to be compared directly against other ads.

The state of the economy is not the issue when it comes to growing a business. The relevant questions are always: ‚What business are you in? Furthermore, is it adapting to the times?‘

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business.

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.

I was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.

Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.

It’s no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

When we are thinking about stuff like embeds, we are not thinking about how we are competing with YouTube. We are thinking about how are we going to make it more useful for people to share stuff on Facebook.

Obviously everybody, if you’re playing in the league, you’ve got to have somewhat of an ego about how you play the game.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

The 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.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.

The first time I used a simulator was in 2014 when I was competing in the Ginetta Junior Championship.

My first win feels better than a draw!

Marathon 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.

It kills me to lose. If I’m a troublemaker, and I don’t think that my temper makes me one, then it’s because I can’t stand losing. That’s the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

Competition is a sin.

I don’t invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

Eight years ago, you may remember Hillary and I were rivals for the Democratic nomination. We battled for a year and a half. Let me tell you, it was tough, because Hillary was tough. I was worn out. She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards in heels.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

We’ve always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways… It’s lasted now about 14 years, and we’re very pleased to have survived it.

A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely.

The connectivity declaration is about uniting the whole industry – a lot of companies that typically compete very fiercely – to push in a coherent direction.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

I can hold my own when it comes to burping. I’ve got a good feeling that I could win a championship.

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

We came up with TDE. As competitive as rap is, and as much as we’re trying to exceed the standards we set for ourselves, we take their wins as our wins, too.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

We’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.

I used to go missing a lot… Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.

Even though I had won in other categories, I didn’t have any expectations when I came into F1. Qualifying fifth, finishing sixth? I didn’t expect it.

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.