“The best way to compete is to get defeat.”
“The problem," he said, "with being one of the best is that you still have to get better. But you're competing with yourself.”
“Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.”
“Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.”
“For the last hundred years the big organizational question has been whether any given task was best taken on by the state, directing the effort in a planned way, or by businesses competing in a market.”
“If you want to continue to be the best in the world, then you have to train and compete like you are second best in the world.”