Workplace Competition Quotes

I see the young guys coming out of college. They are bombing it past me. They hit it so far, they are leaving me in the dust.

That's kind of the nature of the profession I'm in. It's frustrating. Things don't go your way, and I was no exception, in that I spent many years struggling to get work, and there are a lot of people more talented than myself who got jobs before me. And I finally, after years and years and years, got lucky.

Teachers are the worst. Just shameless about kicking off their rivals.

I never felt the need to be in the rat race.

My brother applied for work, but was told by the company that it had more employees than it needed. My brother said, "Don't worry. The little bit of work I do won't be noticed !!!"

I don't think I would want my children to enter into my profession. There's a lot of stress and so much competition. There are easier things you can do with your life.

Generally, people who crib about corporate politics are, more often than not, those who've played the game but lost it.

As you all know first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired.

It is easier for a man to be thought fit for an employment that he has not, than for one he stands already possessed of, and is exercising.

When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

I'm challenging the assumption that you need to be a dog-eat-dog person to survive in a corporate environment.

The downfall of the industry is that there is a lot of pressure in it, a lot of rejection in it and a lot of competition in it. It's a whole mess.

At this point in my career, I can stand shoulder to shoulder with an actor my age who has chosen to do really awful things, and he will get a job over me.

It is in the interest of the wage-earner to have many other alternatives open to him than service under one all-powerful employer called the State

I remember at The Quilted Giraffe, when I was when working there to try out for the sous-chef position. I really wanted it, and the woman working the line next to me kept messing up and making me look bad. The last day of my kitchen trail, I just said to her very quietly, 'Do me a favor and get out of my way, because I want this job.'

The rat race is real. I was part of the rat race.

I've found that men I've dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I've found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren't competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been... challenging.

I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all of a sudden realize that things have changed. You suddenly realize that people are coming up behind you, that maybe somebody might want to replace you for less money.

More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.