Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.
J. K. RowlingMarathon 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. ThompsonAutomotive 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.
Elon MuskA market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.
Henry FordIt’s OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don’t want them to catch up because we’re slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.
Bill GatesDuke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.
Hunter S. ThompsonWhat’s so beautiful about Miami is that we support each other. We’re just one big family, not just the entertainers, just everyone in general.
DJ KhaledI think right now it’s a battle for the mindshare of developers and for the mindshare of customers, and right now iPhone and Android are winning that battle.
Steve JobsI cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset – tears are words waiting to be written.
Paulo CoelhoI’ve taken so many kids out of Pittsburgh and onto the great white way in New York City right into a Broadway show.
Abby Lee MillerIt is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
Richard M. NixonWhat is Champions League level? I saw a lot of rubbish games at Champions League level.
Jurgen KloppI don’t know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their books, lots of Hemingway novels were turned into movies, it doesn’t hurt the book.
Paul AusterWhen 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.
Mark ZuckerbergLife is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Bertrand RussellAccording to Lifetime, I don’t know anything about TV.
Abby Lee MillerWhenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.
George LucasJust because you’ve seen ‚My Cousin Vinny‘ doesn’t qualify you to be a federal judge.
John KennedyI laugh all the time – at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don’t laugh onstage because then it’s serious business.
Steven WrightI’m already the face of the UFC, plus the face of boxing, WWE, and Hollywood.
Conor McGregorIt is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.
Steve JobsIf 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 McGregorThe Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.
Jurgen KloppIt’s simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they’re done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it’s what they see. That’s where my head is at.
Denzel WashingtonI’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 SwiftI am really proud that I am one of the artists that has the opportunity to be on magazine covers and to be in the movies.
Beyonce KnowlesEven 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.
Lando NorrisIf the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. ‚Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that’s mass production.
Will RogersWe have teams of people working on electric cars. So you never know – you may find Virgin competing with the Tesla in the car business as we do in the space business.
Richard BransonWe, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.
Richard BransonFilm is a very tight little box. If you don’t fit in that box, you’re gone. Television, there’s more room to move around.
George LucasYou must keep raising this game to higher and higher levels, as on the pool table – mastering eventually the psychological angles. Your playing is a pleasure, all the way to the end, to death, when the game is over.
Robert GreeneI’m always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.
Dolly PartonWhen you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.
Muhammad AliThe victor belongs to the spoils.
F. Scott FitzgeraldLook at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.
Colin PowellI wanna thank MTV and the VMAs for choosing me to be a part of the show because, on this show, if you not an icon or upcomin‘ icon, you’re not on the show, you know?
DJ KhaledWhen I was on TV in the ’80s, I wasn’t thinking, ‚There’s a 10-year-old kid watching this and in 15 years, he’s gonna be doing stuff that was influenced by me.‘ I was trying to get my five minutes together. So now that those people are comedians and they’re influenced by me – it’s bizarre.
Steven WrightSectional 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 SteinbeckMy folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
John WayneIt 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.
Jackie RobinsonNo matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.
Dolly PartonWe 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.
Nipsey HussleWhen I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.
Jackie ChanThere have been so many great players that I’ve played with, that I’ve played against over the years.
Tom BradyThe 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 GatesI want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star – I am an actor, too.
Jackie ChanA film is sort of binary – it either works or it doesn’t work. It has nothing to do with how good a job you do. If you bring it up to an adequate level where the audience goes with the movie, then it works, that is all.
George LucasI like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.
Matthew McConaugheyThe Internet offers opportunities that are more unique than ever before. With TV, I know I’m making 22 minutes; I know there’s a commercial in the middle. With the Internet, no one knows anything. No rules.
Jerry SeinfeldWhen you’re doing a film and the majority of the film is cast black, for me, it’s most important to get people to view those movies as just movies, as just good movies. At the end of the day, regardless of the color of the cast, we’re all doing the same thing in this business: trying to make a good film.
Kevin HartHip hop has always been braggin‘ and boasting and ‚I’m better at you than this‘ and ‚I’m better at you than that.‘
EminemI’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.
Matthew McConaugheyI’ve choreographed all of my movies.
Jackie ChanIf you’re entering anything where there’s an existing marketplace, against large, entrenched competitors, then your product or service needs to be much better than theirs. It can’t be a little bit better, because then you put yourself in the shoes of the consumer… you’re always going to buy the trusted brand unless there’s a big difference.
Elon MuskTaking in a baseball game on TV is also a big treat.
Jerry SeinfeldWhen I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.
Adam SandlerOnly the public can make a star. It’s the studios who try to make a system out of it.
Marilyn MonroeCompetition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
Henry FordMy cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.
Kurt Vonnegut