#competition

Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants. ↗

— Lamar S. Smith

#american workers #cheap #competition #every #foreign

Homo economicus was surreptitiously taken as the emblem and analogue for all living beings. A mechanistic anthropomorphism has gained currency. Bacteria are imagined to mimic "economic" behavior and to engage in internecine competition for the scarce oxygen available in their environment. A cosmic struggle among ever more complex forms of life has become the anthropic foundational myth of the scientific age. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#economics #modernity #age

When healthy competition prevails -- you come out to play and you play to win. ↗

— Lorii Myers

#motivation #success-self-improvement #the-win #motivational

Take someone who doesn't keep score, who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he's free. ↗

— Rumi

#games #open-secret #quatrains #secret

I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#hollywood #i #made #majority #movies

I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#choice #competition #consumers #direction #fair

But my middle daughter, Kate, is very involved in martial arts, and I was just at one of her competitions. ↗

— Meredith Baxter

#competitions #daughter #her #i #involved

I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol. The other people in the competition had been taking singing lessons and had vocal coaches. I wasn't taking it too seriously at the time, I would just sing around the house. I was only 12 and I got second place. ↗

— Justin Bieber

#ago #around #been #called #coaches

My instinct is to assume that we consumers are an inconsistent bunch. We like competition if it delivers low prices, but grumble if it delivers the bad news that prices need to go up. ↗

— Evan Davis

#bad #bad news #bunch #competition #consumers

Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that. ↗

— Bill Joy

#expect #i #interleaf #like #lot