Janet Jackson Quotes

In our family, if you weren't competitive, you didn't eat. You had to fight for what you wanted.

I feel like everyone has this competitive instinct.

There is no friendship out there. When you race, you have to fight. That's it.

The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.

It is not enough that I succeed. Everyone else must fail.

I thrive in competitive environments. I've never been in a monopoly.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to be the best, but I would just fight anyone, any time. I don't care.

For some people, success is a zero sum game. They think that if they push other people out of the way, fewer people can compete with them. That's one way of seeing the world. It's dog eat dog. It's, sadly, always going to be there.

I see life and the world simply as an arena for competition. That's just what people do, and there are always going to be winners and losers.

I'm competitive, man. Competitive.

Competition is a tough weed, not a delicate flower.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

If you're not first, you're last.

The competition is pretty rough these days.

To me, everything's competition.

I mean, I'm very, very competitive.

Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people.

I'm a competitive guy.

In business everyone is out to grab, to fight, to win. Either you are the under or the over dog. It is up to you to be on top.

The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense.

I love to compete. To me, business is the ultimate sport. It's always on. There is always someone trying to beat me.

Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.

The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.

I guess I've never really been aggressive, although almost everybody else in show business fights and gouges and knees to get where they want to be.