Ruthless Competition Quotes

Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.

Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.

If you're going to get into the political business, you've got to be intensively competitive.

In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite.

Being in permanent campaign mode allows you to never stop the process of destroying your opponents.

I'm loyal to a fault - even though I've been to hell and back with Vince McMahon, I would never to do anything to hurt him. But it's also survival of the fittest out there.

We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity within them, economic tyranny above and the slave spirit below.

Our culture says that ruthless competition is the key to success. Jesus says that ruthless compassion is the purpose of our journey.

Show business is dog eat dog. It's worse than dog eat dog. It's dog doesn't return dog's phone calls.

If any of my competitors were drowning, I'd stick a hose in their mouth and turn on the water. It is ridiculous to call this an industry. This is not. This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me. You're talking about the American way - of survival of the fittest.

If my competitor were drowning I'd stick a hose in his mouth and turn on the water.

When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.

The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief: either to perish, or to catch up with the advanced countries and outdistance them, too, in economic matters.

Don't kid yourself that anyone in the Premier League is going to do you any favours.

The tradition of professional baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is, "Do anything you can get away with."

The inescapable fact is that when we build a society based on greed, selfishness, and ruthless competition, the fruits we can expect to reap are economic insecurity at home and international discord abroad.

Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.

I've built a career in one of the toughest, most ruthless industries in the world. You can't do that unless you're completely with it.

So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.

Steve Jobs is perhaps the most competitive human being I have ever met in my life, and yet I would argue one of the most artistic human beings I have ever met in my life. You can trash the movies all you want, but they do have an artistic component. And yet brutal competition knows no peers when it comes to Hollywood.

You have to rip your opponent's lungs out and then move on.

All is fair in love and war and Parliamentary procedure.

Hemingway describes literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other.

In the struggle for supremacy the various political parties outdo each other in trickery, deceit, cunning, and shady machinations, confident that the one who succeeds is sure to be hailed by the majority as the victor. That is the only god--Success. As to what expense, what terrible cost to character, is of no moment.

I was always a believer in stamping on my opponent if I got him down, at Wimbledon or anywhere else. I never wanted to give him the chance to get up.