Normally, I would approach regulation with extreme reluctance, but the ongoing damage to democracy, public health, privacy and competition justifies extraordinary measures. – Roger McNamee Calling for action on threat from tech companies like Facebook. In, Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe.
Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition. – Henry Clay
I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don’t have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me. – Hedy Lamarr
The truth of basketball is done in competition and fundamentals and team, but there’s a lot of other junk that goes around the game. – George Karl
Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress. – Herbert Hoover
Because of the low photosynthetic efficiency and the competition of energy plants with food plants for agricultural land, we should not grow plants for biofuel production. The growth of such energy plants will undoubtedly lead to an increase in food prices, which will predominantly hit poorer people. – Hartmut Michel
I think there’s much more fashion competition in the more junior levels of the fashion department. And that’s exciting and stimulating to see, because it’s ‘Vogue;’ it’s great to see people dressed originally and with great style and panache. It wouldn’t be ‘Vogue’ otherwise. – Hamish Bowles
Men don’t avoid successful women because they’re jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion. – Ian K. Smith
Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition – in having put forth the best within you. – Henry J. Kaiser
Putin is playing the long game. He has a strategic plan in mind: the Eurasian Union, which would be in competition to Europe. – Hillary Clinton
In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they’re special when they win a competition. – Helmut Jahn
The futures of Crackle and Hulu and so forth become more and more important as we connect to more and more devices. We need our content to make our services as attractive as Apple’s or Amazon’s or Microsoft’s. We’re in a brave new world of fierce competition. – Howard Stringer
We are constantly reminding them that they are in a competition. I had a word with all my contestants and I know Kelly Rowland had a word with hers. It’s reality check time. – Gary Barlow
As I talk with the Chinese on currency, I encourage them to move much more quickly with opening up their capital markets to competition, because I don’t believe the world is going to give them as much time as they would like. – Henry Paulson
In China, export lobbies have fought for policies that favor their interests and limit foreign competition. – Henry Paulson
It’s a tough world out there and all the guys are fighting hard and the competition is really tough. – Guy Forget
On the actual competition days, you get about three or four hours of physical exertion – between an hour-long warm-up, recovery in-between runs, the training runs, and then the runs themselves. – Hannah Kearney
International politics is no longer a zero-sum game but a multi-dimensional arena where cooperation and competition often occur simultaneously. Gone is the age of blood feuds. World leaders are expected to lead in turning threats into opportunities. – Hassan Rouhani
The competition I played against was fantastic, but golf is a different game now. The courses have shrunk because the equipment has gotten better. They’re hitting the ball 10 to 15 percent farther because of the changes in the golf ball. – Hollis Stacy
Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you’ll be sick. – George Leonard
Unless a player goes in for intensive play and tournament competition, two racquets are sufficient. – Helen Wills Moody
Whoever claims that economic competition represents ‘survival of the fittest’ in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics. – George Reisman
Please, please, please, my dear competition. We can beat each other and fight each other as much as we want and argue, but do not predict how a system really works when you really don’t know and don’t want to know. Either be better informed, or don’t do it. – Hasso Plattner
If you do things with a certain type of result and cause a certain type of reaction or effect, then you increase your market value. It’s very much a competition for the entertainment dollar, and that’s never been more clearly evident than in today’s NBA game. – Julius Erving
TV has taken a crazy turn, especially in the industry of food, where everything is either a competition show or a sort of reality show. We’ve lost the kind of shows that are, like, ‘Here’s how you do this,’ like the old Julia Child shows. – Johnny Iuzzini