People have been talking about competition among insurers, and what they really need to be talking about is competition in the delivery of health care as well. – Angela Braly
So the premise of ‘The Submission’ is that there’s an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it’s won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan. – Amy Waldman
I am always fighting inside the Council to get the message across that at each competition venue, we should send somebody to inspect and to make sure the athletes will be looked after in a correct manner. – Alberto Juantorena
I’ve never believed in competition. Everyone’s here to do their own thing and become successful in that respect. – Armaan Malik
Competition among insurers would bring down the cost of health care insurance, just as it brings down the cost of car or homeowners insurance. – Andrew P. Harris
You have to compete with others in the field. Sometimes the competition gets pretty fierce because you’re competing for funds or grants to do your work, the financial work. – Clyde Tombaugh
What is excellence? It is about going a little beyond what we expect from ourselves. Part of the need for excellence is imposed on us externally by our customers. Our competition keeps us on our toes, especially when it is global in nature. – Azim Premji
I would draw a really big distinction between competition, or potential competition, and a conflict of interest. A conflict of interest implies wrongdoing, whereas competition is really healthy. – Bill Maris
When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students. – Bill Cosby
When I’m later in the competition, I get antsy. I’m seeing everybody else go and achieve things. It’s like I’m just twiddling my thumbs. – Ashton Eaton
There’s a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight for survival, and it’s interesting because when you look at the fractal character of evolution, it’s totally different. It’s based on cooperation among the elements in the geometry and not competition. – Bruce Lipton
No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal. – Bonnie Blair
My main point in this regard was to compete for my country and my people and to receive the support of the entire Cuban society, to carry my flag in whatever competition I was in, the Olympic Games, Pan-American Games. – Alberto Juantorena
The lack of portability and competition has long been a problem in America’s insurance market, yet Obamacare took no significant steps to open up the market between state lines. – Bill Flores
Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it’s hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people. – Boris Spassky
When a company identifies how to integrate the processes needed to give the consumer a sense of job completion, it can blow away the competition. A product is easy to copy, but experiences are very hard to replicate. – Clayton M. Christensen
The success of one film may convince the filmmaker to try repeat his successes and get into a competition with himself. One cannot dwell on periodic successes. You have to look at it as a temporary, passing thing. – Asghar Farhadi
Even though I enjoy that head-to-head competition part, one of the things that drove me to long track was if I won or if I lost I want to know it’s all on my shoulders and it didn’t have anything to do with anybody else. – Bonnie Blair
Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public. – Al Franken
Incumbents don’t like it, but political competition is a good thing. Incumbents usually outspend challengers by better than 3 to 1. Super PACs, which tend to support challengers, have nullified some of this advantage. – Bradley A. Smith
There is not a lot of money in competition dancing. There never has been; it’s all about winning the trophies, really. It’s not like golf. – Anton du Beke
Americans’ addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes. – Arlen Specter
I don’t design cars. I’m not a designer. I know what I desire to be built, I know what the end result is, the horsepower, the competition we’ll be working against – but I leave it to the people who work with me to put it all together. I don’t do anything. – Carroll Shelby
A good career is a long-lasting career. When you’re there in every competition doing a good job you’re a part of an elite, and that’s the most important thing. – Blanka Vlasic
In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service. – Barry Ritholtz
I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance and creating meaningful competition for health care services. – Amy Klobuchar
If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best. – Chuck Palahniuk
There is a charm in making a stew, to the unaccustomed cook, from the excitement of wondering what the result will be, and whether any flavour save that of onions will survive the competition in the mixture. – Annie Besant