Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.
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The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of everything else to which he is justly entitled.
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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
A business absolutely devoted to service will have one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
There is only one way to make a great deal of money, and that is in a business of your own.
I’m not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance.
You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.
Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.
Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you’re both engaged in the same business – you know they’re doing something that you aren’t.
Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any man or order of men.
The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed—there's so little competition.