Martin Van Creveld Quotes

Challengers do not have a level playing field.

A meritocracy increases inequality --- by its very nature, it has to.

It's difficult to compete against a player that's also refereeing the game.

I do not have a competitive advantage when fighting another woman.

If life were like a competitive race, some people would be given a flying start and others would line up with weights tied to their ankles.

People begin to resent the rich only when they conclude that the system is rigged.

In Europe, we would congratulate anyone who is successful. But congratulations stop if we find that you start to misuse a dominant position.

Equalising performance between teams runs completely counter to the idea of F1 and would be very unfair for us.

I've endlessly found myself in rooms of men and had the experience of feeling I wasn't being heard. It's a confidence thing.

Are whisper networks good? That question itself is a little flat. Whisper networks arise in a vacuum of justice. They alleviate an untenable condition; they do not actually address it.

When I was growing up, I got a lot of, 'Oh, well, she bought the nicest horse, so of course she's going to win.' And I dealt with a lot of that.

I've always felt like the underdog.

I think what we forget is that everybody loses when we keep unnecessary privilege. The cost to society overall is much greater.

I would be remiss if I didn't say that it has been troubling for me to work within an institution that does not seem to recognize that I am a statistic.

Trump has predicated his whole campaign on the unfairness of the playing field. Big corporations, rich donors, big media, and trade deals that punish the little guy.

When you have a limited resource and you have a lot of people wanting that resource, then those who get more justify as to why they got more, and those who get less say they have been treated badly.

Legitimate small businesses are put at a huge competitive disadvantage when bad actors lie about their small business status and don't play by the rules.

Tanushree Dutta became Miss India as she slept her way to the top.

There's a lot of good midfielders all desperate to play for their country and all I can do when I get called up is prove that I deserve to be there.

I had an older brother that would beat me in everything, and then he would rub my nose in it, and that made me work even harder.

It has more repercussion when the referee favours us than when we are harmed.

Being a foreigner - especially a white and relatively wealthy one - in poor, underdeveloped countries is inherently fraught.

If I am lining up for a race, and I know there is someone there who cheats, it upsets me.

Nepotism and outsiders are two sides of the same coin that is Bollywood. They both have to co-exist. Both have their share of struggles.

For Maersk Line, it is never great to compete with somebody who, by definition, can't go bankrupt.