Competitiveness Quotes - Page 2

• Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.

  Robert B. Parker

  Funny, Writing, People

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• Competition is great for everyone. Sports can teach you so much at an early age, including camaraderie and sportsmanship. Competition aspect is something I've always been big on - I always wanted to compete in something. It was swimming for many years, then I moved on to basketball. I had to find a way to channel my competitive energy, so I'm lucky that basketball worked out for me.

  Tim Duncan

  Basketball, Sports, Swimming

  Interview with Josh Staph, www.stack.com. January 1, 2007.

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• Internationalism means that we can see into the dark corners of the world, and hold those companies to account when they are devastating forests or employing children as bonded labour. Globalization is the complete opposite, its rules pit country against country and workers against workers in the blinkered pursuit of international competitiveness.

  Anita Roddick

  Country, Children, Mean

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• To restore America's competitiveness, we must recruit a new generation of science and technology leaders by investing in diversity.

  Barack Obama

  Technology, America, Diversity

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• I believe that anyone can be successful in life, regardless of natural talent or the environment within which we live. This is not based on measuring success by human competitiveness for wealth, possessions, influence, and fame, but adhering to God's standards of truth, justice, humility, service, compassion, forgiveness, and love.

  Jimmy Carter

  Believe, Humility, Successful

  Jimmy Carter (2014). “The Jimmy Carter Library”, p.444, Simon and Schuster

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• The competitiveness, playing in front of 18-19,000 people every single night, people asking for my autograph, getting recognized, being able to do something like this with Sega and being on the front of a box, and being involved in video games, and listening to movies where they reference my name like in Swingers. All these things they make life so exciting, you don't know what to expect next.

  Jeremy Roenick

  Night, Games, Names

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Competitiveness is just as much a part of our nature as empathy. The ideal, in my view, is a democratic system with a social market economy, because it takes both tendencies into account.

  Frans de Waal

  Views, Empathy, Economy

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• I think competitiveness between two people is still relevant, and the battle of the sexes still intrigues.

  Julian Ovenden

  Sex, Thinking, Two

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• I just sang, recently, for the Prime Minister of Bangladesh - the 34th most powerful woman in the world, according to Forbes Magazine. The United Nations had an event where her son got an award and they put me on this special program on competitiveness and sustainability, and we're talking about doing a world tour of me and the music.

  Robert Davi

  Powerful, Son, Talking

  "INTERVIEW: Actor Robert Davi On His Frank Sinatra Tribute, His Hamptons Roots, "Davi’s Way" And More". Interview with Nicole Barylski, www.hamptons.com.

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• Ontario's auto sector is a cornerstone of our economy - a key source of our ability to export, innovate and create jobs. In this highly competitive global economy, we need to drive further investment and ensure the sector remains strong. I am confident that this new partnership, with Ray Tanguay's strategic advice and leadership, will allow Ontario to increase our competitiveness, productivity, and market share in the auto sector, and I look forward to their important work contributing to a more prosperous, innovative Ontario economy.

  Brad Duguid

  Strong, Jobs, Keys

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• In a day and age of global competition and instantaneous financial flows, you have to be highly sensitive to the way in which tax policy impacts your overall competitiveness as a country.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Country, Impact, Competition

  Source: www.politico.com

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• It is basically a strategy to destroy the essence of democracy, which is the competitiveness and choices of candidates on the ballot.

  Ralph Nader

  Essence, Choices, Democracy

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• Core competence, as it is used by many managers, is a dangerously inward-looking notion. Competitiveness is far more about doing what customers value than doing what you think you're good at.

  Clayton Christensen

  Thinking, Inward, Used

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• Mediocre design provably wastes the world's resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important.

  Fred Brooks

  Design, Important, World

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• Stop costly new regulations that would increase unemployment, raise consumer prices, and weaken the nation's global competitiveness with virtually no impact on global temperatures.

  Newt Gingrich

  Impact, Regulation, Temperature

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• The U.S. is facing a structural competitiveness problem that is leading to the weakest economy we have seen in generations.

  Michael Porter

  Generations, Problem, Economy

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• The notion of the competitiveness of countries, on the model of the competitiveness of companies, is nonsense.

  Martin Wolf

  Country, Nonsense, Notion

  Martin Wolf (2004). “Why Globalization Works”, p.268, Yale University Press

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• Competitiveness is defined as the ability of companies to compete while maintaining or improving the average standard of living. If you are cutting wages to become more competitive, that's not really more competitive. It's raising the skill and the efficiency of those workers so that they can support and sustain that higher wage.

  Michael Porter

  Cutting, Average, Skills

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• The costs of an ignorance of science are nor just practical ones like misbegotten policies, forgone cures, and a unilateral disarmament in national competitiveness. There is a moral cost as well. It is an astonishing fact about our species that we understand so much about the history of the universe. the forces that make it tick, the stuff it's made of; the origin of living things, and the machinery of life. A failure to nurture this knowledge shows a philistine indifference to the magnificent achievements humanity is capable of; like allowing a great work of art to molder in a warehouse.

  Steven Pinker

  Art, Ignorance, Achievement

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• I feel very lucky to be making good work still. The confidence of youth, or that sort of competitiveness you get when you're 22 or 23, the impatience - that's probably been tempered. Hopefully I'm slightly better company.

  Cillian Murphy

  Lucky, Youth, Good Work

  "The Shy Man’s Revenge". Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 17, 2014.

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• If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.

  Tom Peters

  People, Important, Asking

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• Sports must become an indispensable and inseparable part of our social life. Competitiveness is just a by-product.

  Narendra Modi

  Sports, India, Social

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• It comes down to competitiveness. I hate to lose. We want people in our organization that hate to lose - that want to compete every single day, so you continue to strive to win.

  Bob Myers

  Hate, Winning, Organization

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• Electric service providers in Missouri have warned that the EPA's so-called Clean Power Plan will raise energy costs for Missourians, reduce jobs, and hurt our state's economic competitiveness. As a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, I've fought hard to ensure provisions that would defund this harmful power grab were included in the final appropriations bill. I also support legislation to block this harmful rule and protect workers and families from the damaging effects of the Obama Administration's executive overreach and costly energy regulations.

  Roy Blunt

  Hurt, Jobs, Block

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Europe is slow to react, it is lagging behind in competitiveness, there are problems with demography, population, serious problems with security, internal security and military capabilities.

  Viktor Orban

  Military, Europe, Serious

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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