Megyn Price Quotes

I'm better than Olivier.

I'm a prideful person when it comes to competition.

There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.

There is always going to be someone more successful, richer, better looking, or with a nicer car.

Success is somebody else's failure.

No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.

Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

With 'Idol' it's kind of just like 'OK, here's this competition - I need to do better than somebody else.'

Without losers, where would the winners be?

You think that if you are the best actor, you deserve the most or if you are the biggest star, you deserve the most. That race just isn't important to me.

We are bred to compare ourselves to the next person, to what they have and what they have accomplished.

I think the people who end up being extraordinarily successful - it's been my observation - tend to care enormously about status, particularly business people, right? Because the only point of money, you know, the only reason to have a 300-foot-long boat is because they're bigger than 200-foot-long boats.

Some prideful people are not so concerned as to whether their wages meet their needs as they are that their wages are more than someone else's. Their reward is being a cut above the rest. This is the enmity of pride.

I think it's in human nature to want to have more, to compete with the other and, at some level, to be dissatisfied if someone else has more than you.

I have been compared to Mao since we were both junior skaters. We've felt the rivalry since then, so we wanted to avoid each other. However, she has been my motivation.

Happiness needs one-upmanship.

A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do something more than they do, whereby his superiority may be apparent.

When are four women ever happy for another woman getting something they'd love to have? Tell me that.

Men and nations cannot bear to feel inferior.

Succeeding makes us feel good. But beating someone else makes us feel really good. Comparing ourselves to others and coming out on top creates a sense of entitlement. And when we feel entitled, we cheat more because, of course, the rules don't apply to awesome people like us.

I don't care where I sit in terms of hierarchy, box office takings, or any of that stuff.

All my life, everything has been a contest.

Deep down, my ego always thought that I would outlast a lot of people that I was competing against.