Competitive Advantage Quotes - Page 2

• The rate at which organizations learn may soon become the only sustainable source of competitive advantage.

  Peter Senge

  Organization, Excellence, May

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• Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Motivational, Reality

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• The greatest competitive advantage is to allow your employees to be part of something. Something bigger than what you're doing.

  Blake Mycoskie

  Advantage, Bigger, Employee

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• Caring, it turns out, is a competitive advantage, and one that takes effort, not money.

  Seth Godin

  Caring, Effort, Advantage

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• An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent.

  Gary Hamel

  New Horizons, Talent, Advantage

  Gary Hamel (2012). “What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation”, p.99, John Wiley & Sons

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• I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Educational, Care, Lines

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2011). “The Thank You Economy (Enhanced Edition)”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• Don't be color blind, be color brave. Embrace diversity as a competitive advantage.

  Mellody Hobson

  Color, Diversity, Brave

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• Organizational health is the single greatest competitive advantage in any business.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Advantage, Organizational

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• The guy with the competitive advantage is the one with the best technology.

  Walter Wriston

  Technology, Guy, Advantage

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• The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.

  Keith Henson

  Animal, Giving, Generations

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• Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity.

  George Soros

  Marijuana, Organization, Mexico

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• Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.

  Gary Hamel

  Innovation, Rewards, Management

  "The Magic of Middle Management" by Luise Meyer, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2014.

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• User habits are a competitive advantage. Products that change customer routines are less susceptible to attacks from other companies.

  Nir Eyal

  Habit, Advantage, Company

  Nir Eyal (2014). “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products”, p.17, Penguin

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• Creativity may well be the last legal unfair competitive advantage we can take to run over the competition.

  David Trott

  Running, Creativity, Competition

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• Genuine listening ability is one of the few true forms of competitive advantage.

  Feargal Quinn

  Listening, Advantage, Form

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• Effective leadership is the only competitive advantage that will endure. That's because leadership has two sides- what a person is character and what a person does- competence.

  Stephen Covey

  Leadership, Basketball, Character

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• Conversation creates a new kind of network within organizations. Current networks are used for competitive advantage, but conversation is focused on encouraging people to realize their potential.

  Theodore Zeldin

  Organization, People, Kind

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• Strength of will - is essential to your survival and success. The competitor who won't go away, who won't stay down, has one of the most formidable competitive advantages of all. In evaluating people, I prize ego. It often translates into a fierce desire to do their best and an inner confidence that stands them in good stead when things really get rough. Psychologists suggest that there is a strong link between ego and competitiveness. All the great performers I've ever coached had ego to spare.

  Bill Walsh

  Strong, People, Ego

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• A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Creativity, School

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• Our behavior is driven by a fundamental core belief: the desire, and the ability, of an organization to continuously learn from any source, anywhere; and to rapidly convert this learning into action is its ultimate competitive advantage.

  Jack Welch

  Organization, Desire, Fundamentals

  Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

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• Exploiting a sustainable competitive advantage is great... If you can find it.

  Rita Gunther McGrath

  Advantage, Ifs

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• The number one idea is to view a stock as an ownership of the business and to judge the staying quality of the business in terms of its competitive advantage. Look for more value in terms of discounted future cash-flow than you are paying for. Move only when you have an advantage.

  Charlie Munger

  Moving, Ideas, Numbers

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• Our investments continue to be few in number and simple in concept: The truly big investment idea can usually be explained in a short paragraph. We like a business with enduring competitive advantages that is run by able and owner-oriented people. When these attributes exist, and when we can make purchases at sensible prices, it is hard to go wrong (a challenge we periodically manage to overcome).

  Warren Buffett

  Running, Simple, Ideas

  Letter To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. March 7, 1995.

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• The transaction reflects our disciplined strategy of investing capital in core businesses where we can leverage scale and expertise for competitive advantage. In addition to being a great strategic fit, the deal is compelling financially.

  Jamie Dimon

  Investing, Fit, Strategy

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• In a world where routine production is footloose...competitive advantage lies not in one-time breakthroughs but in continual improvements. Stable technologies get away.

  Robert Reich

  Lying, Technology, Routine

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