James A. Farley Quotes

One of the biggest lies in capitalism is that companies like competition. They don't. Nobody likes competition.

I feel like everyone has this competitive instinct.

Honestly, we’ll compete with everybody. I love competition. As long as people invent their own stuff, I love competition.

Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.

Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive.

To me, everything's competition.

All competitors are fierce competitors; Vodafone is the world's second largest company. We fight it each day. Idea Cellular is big and successful, too. Competition is competition; we are used to it.

Sometimes, for businesses, competition can be inconvenient, because competition means that the race is never over, the game is never won. No matter how well you were doing in the past, there's always someone who are out there wanting to take your place. So the temptation to avoid competition is powerful. It's rooted in motives as old as Adam and Eve: in greed for yet more money, in fear of losing your position in the market and all the benefits it brings.

They might be a good friend, but they are also a bitter commercial rival. Let's not kid ourselves.. The American wheat industry has done everything it possibly can to criticize the Australian wheat industry in order to take the Iraqi wheat market from us.

Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far.

I'm very competitive. I remember being 4 years old trying to out-chug my dad in a milk-chugging contest. It's been in my blood.

Because we're sponsored by competing breweries there is always competition. When we were both fighting for ninth or 10th place, nobody really cared except the two companies.

There is a healthy competition as there would be in any business. But we do not spend our days thinking about what Marvel is doing.

I think there's something wrong with me - I like to win in everything I do, regardless of what it is. You want to race down the street, I want to beat you. If we're playing checkers, I want to win. You beat me, it's going to bother me. I just enjoy competition.

For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man.

Global competition is about winners and losers.

Industrial contests take on all the attitudes and psychology of war, and both parties do many things that they should never dream of doing in times of peace…. all parties in interest must be judged from that standpoint.

Man is a gaming animal.

There is no resting place for an enterprise in a competitive economy.

Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity:..

America is competitive. We compete with each other every day.

You've got to remember there's intense competition between Microsoft and Amazon.

Being the competitive guy that I am, I can't get into individual battles like I have.

There's a lot of businesses that are working hard, who are at the top of their games. Therefore, it's always going to be a market share fight.

I think I was born with this aggressive game inside me.