A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy.
Rod Blagojevich

A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
Betty Friedan

After a few games I knew I was going to be able to compete. The idea of being a star never crossed my mind.
Merlin Olsen

Also, if we take back our schools and concentrate on improving them so our children get a better education, they will be better trained to compete for a job locally.
Vincent Frank

American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.
Andy Stern

And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.
Jason Statham

Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets.
Lawrence Eagleburger

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
Gian Carlo Menotti

As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams.
Phil Hartman

As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests.
James S. Coleman

As long as a house is like yours, and as long as you work together with your brothers, not a house in the world will be able to compete with you, to cause you harm or to take advantage of you, for together you can undertake and perform more than any house in the world.
Nathan Meyer Rothschild

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.
Audre Lorde

But I know somebody who has a bedside urinal. How do I compete with that?
Lara Flynn Boyle

By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. That's why an Indian in Bangalore can take care of the office work of American doctors or read the X-rays of German hospitals.
Thomas Friedman

Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.
J. D. Hayworth

Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let's talk about the patient. The patient doesn't need a war.
Donald Berwick

Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
Edsger Dijkstra

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.
Joyce A. Myers

Even as a small child I never felt that I should have to compete with anyone - even my older brother.
Dwayne Hickman