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The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.

Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy.

The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers.

Reality is a genre that seems to be here to stay. I don't know how many of the new shows will last, but the more competition you have, the harder that pie is to slice up.

It is undeniable that a woman's ability to stretch and pursue her total competence outside the home and get paid what she's worth for it makes for happier and more fulfilled women.

Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.

Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.

Today, the competition is considerably more intense.

The competition is pretty rough these days.

Europe should stick to an open economy, to competition and we should refuse protectionism. It will not save one single job in the long run to protect non-competitive industries.

Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.

We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets.

Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn't have any competition.

Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.

That's easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.