Politics is a blood sport.
Once you get to the tournament, it's like, win or go home.
It's not that things won't change - they can't help but change. Things are becoming more and more competitive.
You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact.
I have not survived 50 years in showbusiness by being Mr. Nice. If you are weak, this business eats you up.
There are a lot of vipers in this industry, people who only have their own interests in mind.
At the end of the day, it's an unforgiving sport.
Hollywood can be a very stinging town. They say it's a forgiving business. It's not that forgiving.
To be sure, boxing has always been, at best, a shady and sometimes cutthroat business, buttressed by hype and tomfoolery rivalling, at times, that of carnival circuses.
When the money gets bigger and the stakes get higher, the sea gets wider, and the sharks in the water grow sharper teeth.
When you get down to the meat and potatoes of genuine capitalism, it is cutthroat, vicious competition, and the consumer always benefits in the end.
At Court, every one for himselfe. [At court, everyone for himself.]
I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.
There's no difference in dealing with the music business with the majors than any other competition. The music business is way more cutthroat than any other business.
You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.
You form pretty strong opinions about the guys you compete against. You're all very competitive; you're all very selfish. So it's easy to drum up some strong opinions in a second's notice, like, 'Argh! This guy!'
It could potentially be a very competitive race.
I thrive in competitive environments. I've never been in a monopoly.
I am way too competitive! I get so crazy that I don't even care.
Sales bring out the worst in people.
There are no gentlemen in anything competitive - you want to win.
From a young age, I was viciously competitive.
Everyone does what they believe they need to do in order to survive in this business, 'survive' being the operative word.
I play the game hard; I play the game with an edge.
Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
