Quotes about Competitors

A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride. Votes: 7

I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors. Votes: 5

When you are a professional sportsman all the guys are great competitors in the top 50. Votes: 5

If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business. Votes: 5

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes. Votes: 5

Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure. Votes: 5

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself. Votes: 5

There's no better friend to any merchant than a fair competitor. Votes: 3

None of our competitors have ever made two systems that run the same software. Votes: 3

We have, unlike many of our competitors, continued to meet our various financial obligations. Votes: 3

The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be only sustainable competitive advantage. Votes: 3

In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors. Votes: 3

One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition. Votes: 3

My hard work and excellent training entitled me to be a better actress than some of my competitors Votes: 3

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. Votes: 3

By overhauling current rules and speeding the entry of competitors in the market, we encourage competition and provide our constituents with new choices and cheaper bills. Votes: 3

Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped. Votes: 3

Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one. Votes: 3

Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt. Votes: 3

And so if your competitors aren't growing, if there isn't a competitive reason to grow, and you want focus and discipline to add customers to existing stores, you adjust your strategy. Votes: 3

In general, great companies prefer to grow organically, as Wall Street likes to say. That is, from the inside out, by finding new markets or by taking market share from their competitors. Votes: 3

There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors. Votes: 3

I haven't played a chess match for several decades. At one point I lost most of my chess games. Then I realized many of my competitors were memorizing the best moves and I was unwilling to do this. Votes: 3

The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared. Votes: 3

A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride Votes: 3

The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. He always wanted to close his own deal. He never talked to you because he was battling so hard. I sure as hell don't miss batting against him, but I miss him in the game. Votes: 3

Your most dangerous competitors are those that are most like you. Votes: 2

People can be great competitors on Sunday and mates on Monday. Votes: 2

The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win. Votes: 2

You've got to keep reinventing. You'll have new competitors. You'll have new customers all around you. Votes: 2

Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade. Votes: 2

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do. Votes: 2

Since most corporate competitors have the same problems with sustainability and social reputation, it's worth trying to solve them together. Votes: 2

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I'm inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers. Votes: 2

Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage. Votes: 2

It's always hard to find the best friends in the locker room because we are all competing against each other - but the real friends you are going to definitely find off the court because we are competitors in between. Votes: 2

I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her colonial trade against foreign competitors. Votes: 2

I think that at the start of a game, you're always playing to win, and then maybe if you're ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win. Votes: 2

For example, a breakthrough in better batteries could supplant hydrogen. Better solar cells could replace or win out in this race to the fuel of the future. Those, I see, as the three big competitors: hydrogen, solar cells and then better batteries. Votes: 2

Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we're going to win. Votes: 2

I found out I had a real love for comedy and comedy writing. The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing. Votes: 2

I think the rise of China is inevitable, because China has moved from a low-cost producer, at low levels of technology, to higher levels of technology, and because it's very competitive, even in some high-tech products they offer at very competitive rates - much lower than their competitors. Votes: 2

My second business would have succeeded but for competitors' jealousy. I was selling motorbike gear cheap, but the people I was undercutting complained to the manufacturer and cut off my supply. It showed me how corrupt business can be. When I sold phones, the same thing happened, but this time I was ready. Votes: 2

When a company is not being guided by the products they make and what the customers need, but by how they can manipulate the system - get regulations on their competitors, or mandates on using their products, or eliminating foreign competition - it just lowers the overall standard of living and hurts the disadvantaged the most. Votes: 2

Now most people do not want an ordinary life in which they do a job well, earn the respect of their collaborators and competitors, bring up a family and have friends. That's not enough any more, and I think that is absolutely tragic - and I'm not exaggerating - that people feel like a decent, ordinary, fun life is no longer enough. Votes: 2

Obsess about customers, not competitors. Votes: 0

You have to respect all your competitors. Votes: 0

Listen to your customers, not your competitors. Votes: 0

Your only competitors are your past achievements. Votes: 0

Communicate. Listen to your customers, associates and competitors. Votes: 0

Without competitors there would be no need for strategy. Votes: 0

Hug your customers but also offer handshake to your competitors. Votes: 0

We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors Votes: 0

Now if you go exactly where your competitors are, you're dead. Votes: 0

Study the methods of your competitors and do the exact opposite. Votes: 0

Be thankful for quality competitors who push you to your limit. Votes: 0

One thing that often disrupts momentum and really shouldn't is competitors. Votes: 0

It's nearly every country's tactic to keep their greatest competitors a secret. Votes: 0

Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large competitors. Votes: 0

If your competitors start copying you then you are doing something right! Votes: 0

While a man is racing he must hate himself and his competitors. Votes: 0

But they are also better, our competitors are better because Wal-Mart exists. Votes: 0

I don't have to be enemies with someone to be competitors with them. Votes: 0

Successful competitors want to win. Head cases want to win at all costs.... Votes: 0

The future of television is what our competitors have been doing for years. Votes: 0

Choose to collaborate (abundance perspective) and watch your competitors (scarcity perspective) become your allies. Votes: 0

Typical mergers happen when there are two competitors coming together, and they reduce overhead. Votes: 0

If any of my competitors were drowning, I'd stick a hose in their mouth Votes: 0

The U.N. is one of many competitors in a marketplace of global problem solving. Votes: 0

Brands always mean something. If you don't define what the brand means, your competitors will Votes: 0

Work with your competitors when the interest of the community and planet are at stake. Votes: 0

Poor firms ignore their competitors; average firms copy their competitors; winning firms lead their competitors. Votes: 0

Today's partners can be your competitors tomorrow. And today's competitors can be your partners tomorrow. Votes: 0

Sometimes your worst competitors are the ones which are dying because they do stupid things. Votes: 0

Benchmark your performance against your best competitors. Think how you can beat them next time. Votes: 0

When a man takes good care of the woman, she takes care of his competitors. Votes: 0

When I started half.com, our three biggest competitors were Borders, Tower Records and Blockbuster Video. Votes: 0

We fully expect our competitors to join us in embracing open standards with their next redesigns. Votes: 0

That's another flaw with performance-based rewards: They are easy for one of your competitors to top. Votes: 0

Every company should work hard to obsolete its own product line - before its competitors do. Votes: 0

America can no longer afford to get the Nobel Prizes while our competitors get the profits. Votes: 0

If you change the rules of the market, you can be more successful than your competitors. Votes: 0

A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors. Votes: 0

When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers. Votes: 0

Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors. Votes: 0

You only stay in front by coming up with ideas your new competitors haven't thought of yet. Votes: 0

The mutual fund industry provided the money for Intel and Motorola and Hewlett-Packard to crush the competitors. Votes: 0

Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade Votes: 0

Fannie and Freddie are creations of government. They were given a huge leg up over their competitors. Votes: 0

If there are too many competitors, even if you're the best it's a lot harder to win. Votes: 0

Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad. Votes: 0

My hard work and excellent training entitled me to be a better actress than some of my competitors. Votes: 0

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that. Votes: 0

In the future, it will become increasingly obvious that your competitors are just as clueless as you are. Votes: 0

There are a lot of doubts over the size and effect of new competitors in the cellular sector. Votes: 0

With most competitors moving ever faster, the race will go to those who listen (and respond) most intently. Votes: 0

Unless you frame yourself, others will frame you "” the media, your enemies, your competitors, your well-meaning friends. Votes: 0

There are so many tough opponents out there and tough competitors so I've never liked to look ahead. Votes: 0

You have a place to live in this world which no other man can occupy; hence no competitors. Votes: 0

Wal-Mart does not do big mergers, though it will buy much smaller competitors in so-called 'tuck-in acquisitions.' Votes: 0

Our competitors aren't taking our market share with devices; they are taking our market share with an entire ecosystem. Votes: 0

Learn as much as you can about your proposed business. Ask questions. Join industry associations. Study successful competitors carefully. Votes: 0

In general, you don't want competitors to understand your business outside of telling people your revenue and profitability numbers. Votes: 0

It may well be that creativity is the last unfair advantage we're legally allowed to take over our competitors. Votes: 0

In a world full of cynics, critics, and competitors, we get to choose instead to be cheerleaders for others. Votes: 0

Success comes more quickly to the entrepreneur that follows his instincts rather than following the progress of his competitors. Votes: 0

Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back to the company. Votes: 0

Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out. Votes: 0

Let's not forget we created that ideal middle class by destroying all of our industrial competitors during World War II. Votes: 0

The Dutch and the English, former competitors for world dominance, taught me the wisdom of waiting as well as withholding. Votes: 0

Competitive advantage is a companys ability to perform in one or more ways that competitors cannot or will not match. Votes: 0

It's like athletes: To be a great company you need great competitors...It's what keeps you alive and keeps you honest. Votes: 0

We worried about competitors, but it was an unreasonable fear. As a friend once pointed out, most gunshot wounds are self-inflicted. Votes: 0

As they grow, companies saturate their markets, become more complex and difficult to manage, and face larger and more entrenched competitors. Votes: 0

Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser. Votes: 0

Passing competitors always gives you a lift. It probably has a physical effect, too, because you get a surge of adrenaline. Votes: 0

If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we'll turn out all right. Votes: 0

The Leftovers is a great basketball book that shines a light on what true competitors can overcome with a solid work ethic. Votes: 0

Are our competitors - for example, China, which is a deeply authoritarian nation - becoming more authoritarian or more liberal over time? Votes: 0

An overly expansive virtual 'toll' for the Internet that blocks consumers' and competitors' access to the e-commerce superhighway is not the right answer. Votes: 0

I've come to see that competitors are necessary to those who want to get on in the world. Opposition is indispensable to success. Votes: 0

A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven't been as well taught. Votes: 0

The sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as effectively as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors. Votes: 0

When I look at my fellow competitors, I say to myself, 'I many be nervous, but you are definetly nervous as well.' Votes: 0

I've always been baffled by how much we over-rate the statistically insignificant differences that separate competitors at the top end of the distribution. Votes: 0

People are studying whether there's a cause of action that competitors, for example, would have if they're harmed by these foreign government payments. Votes: 0

Many people consider darts a sport, with a live audience and very excited fans and competitors who aren`t hitting the bull`s-eye. Votes: 0

BMW models are more powerful on average than competitors. This is precisely what we are aiming for: less fuel consumption and more driving pleasure. Votes: 0

The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior. Votes: 0

Unlike other sports, which are largely determined by individual athletic ability or team strength, NASCAR requires its competitors to cooperate in order to win. Votes: 0

Good spectator sports share certain fundamentals. Their competitors battle head-to-head. Their winners are determined objectively: fastest runner, most points. They are refereed, not judged. Votes: 0

Complements from your companion will do you no good, but if you get complements from your competitors it means you are really doing good. Votes: 0

Space travel will be like every other business. There will be competitors. . . . Thirty months from now, I'm confident we'll be flying people into space. Votes: 0

The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents. Votes: 0

That's why the smartest companies use Common Lisp, but lie about it so all their competitors think Lisp is slow and C++ is fast. Votes: 0

You've got to look for a gap, where competitors in a market have grown lazy and lost contact with the readers or the viewers. Votes: 0

Daily Mojo: Your main competitors are not others in your industry. Your main competitors are distractions. Don't let them beat you - stay focused Votes: 0

I found that competition was supposed to be a menace and that a good manager circumvented his competitors by getting a monopoly by artificial means. Votes: 0

Competition for the sake not of destroying one another, but for the sake of bettering and improving both competitors as a result of the competition. Votes: 0

I once got 7th place in a swim meet. Being top 8 is an accomplishment, especially when you consider that including me, there were seven competitors. Votes: 0

You'll learn more in a day talking to customers than a week of brainstorming, a month of watching competitors, or a year of market research. Votes: 0

Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than his living competitors. Votes: 0

We get brilliant results from average people managing brilliant processes - while our competitors get average or worse results from brilliant people managing broken processes Votes: 0

Everybody agrees that you want competition. But you have to have rules of fair competition if you want to have competitors to enter the market. Votes: 0

Wealth comes from successful individual efforts to please one's fellow man ... that's what competition is all about: "outpleasing" your competitors to win over the consumers. Votes: 0

I've seen - both in myself and my competitors - how satisfaction can lead to a lack of vigilance, then to mistakes and missed opportunities. Votes: 0

In Hong Kong, the property business has always been very competitive, so we have to think of ways to get an edge over our competitors. Votes: 0

We watch our competitors, learn from them, see the things that they were doing for customers and copy those things as much as we can. Votes: 0

Not every financial company toppled during the 2008 crisis, and some seized the opportunity to take advantage of weaker competitors in the midst of the tumult. Votes: 0

Why I love chess and tennis - the volleying aspect, and the fact that your competitors' reactions and motivations and bluffs come into the game itself. Votes: 0

Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand! Votes: 0

Theatre has so many competitors, it's no longer enough to see and hear a play. You want to be able to touch and smell it too Votes: 0

When I went to the starting line of the 1976 Olympic marathon in Montreal, it was with the unsettling conviction that some of my competitors were cheaters. Votes: 0

Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors. Votes: 0

Women made up 44% of Olympic competitors at London 2012 - the greatest show of gender equality in Olympic history. By comparison, in the 1908 Games men outnumbered women 53 to 1. Votes: 0

The main selling appeal of NAFTA to US corporations is that it gives them an advantage in the North American market over their European and Japanese competitors. Votes: 0

What are you doing at the moment? How does that compare to your competitors? What do you want to achieve? How can you create something people want? Votes: 0

It's easier for me to go to Russia and train with top coaches and choreographers there than go to Colorado Springs and train with 14 of my competitors. Votes: 0

Give users what they actually want, not what they say they want. And whatever you do, don't give them new features just because your competitors have them! Votes: 0

I read annual reports of the company I'm looking at and I read the annual reports of the competitors - that is the main source of material. Votes: 0

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live. Votes: 0

You'll sacrifice a lot of things in the early part of your career to be successful, but to be ahead of your competitors, you have to work hard. Votes: 0

He said he came in second place, so I assumed there were only two competitors. But you never know with love, there may have been a third party involved. Votes: 0

I am a big believer of what Darwin discovered in the Galapagos, proving that the species most responsive to change will survive over apparently stronger or more intelligent competitors. Votes: 0

We were not just competitors and colleagues, we were friends. We had a lot of opportunities to reflect on this in the last year. It was a competitive brotherhood. Votes: 0

Legendary service is one of the criteria that sets one company apart from its competitors. It's the mark of a truly authentic company - you just can't fake caring! Votes: 0

What is your Unique Selling Proposition? What makes you different than your competitors? Wrap your advertising message around that USP and communicate it in a clear and concise manner. Votes: 0

No amount of artificial protection can permanently maintain an obsolete product, an inferior process or a moribund organization against competitors which are based on scientifically improved products or methods. Votes: 0

Our economic competitors ... are eating us for lunch, and we can get in the game or not. We can be at the table, or we can be on the table. Votes: 0

You first compete with yourself before competing against others; if you cannot beat your last best result, do not be surprised if it seems difficult to compete against external competitors. Votes: 0

The competitors, like Commodore and Kaypro, were all doing speeds and feeds, whereas Steve always wanted things like "What is the significance in the world? How might this change things? Votes: 0

Patent battles have become a strong catalyst for mergers, reducing competition in various domains. The largest corporations, with gigantic patent portfolios, routinely enter into cross-licensing agreements with their largest competitors. Votes: 0

We're stronger and braver TOGETHER. Do not let this world and this narcissistic culture make competitors out of the very people who are meant to be your comrades in arms. Votes: 0

Some of my competitors overlook the importance of knowing as much as possible about their opponents, but I think that it is an invaluable asset that I have gained from working. Votes: 0

Be generous with your colleagues and your competitors. When people learn that they do well whenever they work with you, they will be more willing to come to you with opportunities. Votes: 0

For the most part, the best opportunities now lie where your competitors have yet to establish themselves, not where they're already entrenched. Microsoft is struggling to adapt to that new reality. Votes: 0

Nuclear power has died of an incurable attack of market forces and is way beyond any hope of revival, because the competitors are several-fold cheaper and are getting rapidly more so. Votes: 0

In rowing as in life, there are competitors and there are racers. The competitor works hard and rows to his limit. The racer does not think of limits, only the race. Votes: 0

I looked at my competitors and I thought that, If they could do it, I could do it. And if, they are popular and doing well, I could compete with them. Votes: 0

I learn from winning, because it's much easier to point out things when you lose. But I think the alternate competitors can point out a lot of things when you win. Votes: 0

The trick is, a market has to be nonexistent when you start. If the market is large early on, you will have too many competitors. You have to make it large. Votes: 0

We will not support returning Fannie and Freddie to the role they played before conservatorship, where they fought to take market share from private competitors while enjoying the privilege of government support. Votes: 0

Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of competitors into a given field, by legislative action. Votes: 0

Social networks are like grease - in some cases, gasoline - for our personal business networking machines. If you aren't plugged in, you will be out-done by better-connected, hyper-networked colleagues and competitors. Votes: 0

We [Virgin Group] have been successful not by wasting time scrutinising our competitors but by looking at ourselves from the point of view of our customers do and seeking feedback through listening. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm thrilled the president [Barack Obama] has endorsed me. We started off as fierce competitors, and we've ended up as true friends and partners and worked together on so many important issues. Votes: 0

They were very generous with me. Everybody was willing to talk about their particular accident, what they had to deal with and how they got back in touch with their competitors' spirit. Votes: 0

The beauty of this country and what people participate in is the competitive nature that we allow to exist and the fact is that we are better because we have great competitors. Votes: 0

If it comes to be believed that we are simply a propaganda organ of some kind, as a lot of people believe about some of our competitors, that would be a problem. Votes: 0

I learn from all our major competitors, whether they're in or out of the U.S. Wells Fargo is very actively, very aggressively, and very successfully building its U.S. investment bank. Votes: 0

The world was not supportive. They look at me as a joke for 13 to 14 years until I could prove feasibility; then I had competitors. Those that laughed at me became my competitors. Votes: 0

Companies face a handful of different risks, whether it is competitors or different market environments. But I think that people focus way too much on competitors and not enough on their own execution. Votes: 0

CNN and MSNBC, our primary competitors, are trying to figure out how to beat us. There are some good, smart people at those networks, and even occasionally a blind pig finds an acorn. Votes: 0

When you hear a lobby called Partnership for a Drug-Free America, just remember - they do not want a drug free America. They want an America free of drugs that are their competitors. Votes: 0

Second, you need to spread the large amount of information knowledge that you've gained-pooping like an elephant. This means sharing information and discoveries with your fellow employees and occasionally even with your competitors. Votes: 0

We're all competitors, you know? The player wants to get a hit. The manager wants to win. I want to get it right. To tell you the truth, I just love that competition. Votes: 0

An organization's strategy is simply its plan for success. It's nothing more than the collection of intentional decisions a company makes to give itself the best chance to thrive and differentiate from competitors. Votes: 0

If competitors don't like our two to one advantage, dominating market share with both SP and DS, well, I've got bad news. Because we just made it two and a half to one. Votes: 0

In general, great companies prefer to grow 'organically,' as Wall Street likes to say. That is, from the inside out, by finding new markets or by taking market share from their competitors. Votes: 0

An extremely competitive retail market is pushing extensive discounting and large volumes of wine at low prices, and New World competitors from South America and South Africa are also impacting on the market. Votes: 0

Our higher education system is controlled by what amounts to a cartel of existing colleges and universities, which use their power over the accreditation process to block innovative, low-cost competitors from entering the market. Votes: 0

If you are seizing on a new business opportunity, deliberately move your customers' expectations up a few notches and consistently over-deliver on your promises - you will leave your competitors struggling to catch up. Votes: 0

Trying to do what your competitors are doing but basically a little bit better is probably not going to be the winning strategy. The problem is finding what your competitors wouldn't even consider doing. Votes: 0

Trying to do what your competitors are doing but basically a little bit better is probably not going to be the winning strategy. The problem is finding what your competitors wouldnt even consider doing. Votes: 0

I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them. Votes: 0

I won eight gold medals that day. I was like Michael Phelps, except I was the only person competing in all those events. Still, I count the number of golds, not the number of competitors. Votes: 0

Immigration is part of the reason why our economy is stronger and better positioned than most of our other competitors, is because we've got a younger population that's more dynamic when it comes to trade. Votes: 0

I try to think about my goals. I think about my competitors-I know they're working hard, and if they are, I have to work hard too. I have to be one step ahead of them. Votes: 0

I'm not going to name anybody, but I think there are about five to 10 global institutions that will emerge as our primary competitors across the board. They're adjusting to this new world, like we are. Votes: 0

The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing. Votes: 0

Rich countries have 'kicked away the ladder' by forcing free-market, free-trade policies on poor countries. Already established countries do not want more competitors emerging through the nationalistic policies they themselves successfully used in the past. Votes: 0