Competitors Quotes

• The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

  Henry Ford

  Money, Funny Inspirational, Business

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• Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

  Bill Gates

  Money, Business, Apples

  "One-on-One with Bill Gates". Interview with Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com. FEbruary 16, 2005.

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• Be thankful for quality competitors who push you to your limit.

  Michael Josephson

  Being Thankful, Competition, Quality

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• No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Friends, Wisdom, Hate

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• If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.

  Jeff Bezos

  Inspirational, Educational, Waiting

  "America's Best Leaders: Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com CEO". Interview with David LaGesse, www.usnews.com. November 19, 2008.

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• Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

  Paul Gauguin

  Business, Weakness, Relative

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a spreadsheet guy. But you get to that moment of truth, and it has nothing to do with a spreadsheet. You've got to factor in what your competitors are doing, what the technology is doing, what your shareholders want, what your employees want, what your customers want, and you've got to make it happen sometimes.

  Brian Roberts

  Technology, Guy, Want

  Source: usatoday30.usatoday.com

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• There's no better friend to any merchant than a fair competitor.

  James Cash Penney

  Fairs, Merchants

  James Cash Penney (1960). “View from the Ninth Decade: Jottings from a Merchant's Daybook”

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• And so if your competitors aren't growing, if there isn't a competitive reason to grow, and you want focus and discipline to add customers to existing stores, you adjust your strategy.

  Jim Cantalupo

  Discipline, Focus, Growing

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• Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped.

  David Ogilvy

  Might, March, Advertising

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• Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one.

  Niki Lauda

  Running, Long, Competition

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a competitor and a very proud man. If a guy beats me once, he'll have to do it again to make me believe him.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Believe, Men

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Jul 10, 2013

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• Whenever I may be tempted to slack up and let the business run for awhile on its own impetus, I picture my competitor sitting at a desk in his opposition house, thinking and thinking with the most devilish intensity and clearness, and I ask myself what I can do to be prepared for his next brilliant move.

  Harry Gordon Selfridge

  Running, Business, Moving

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• If you're not a competitor, you've just got to go home.

  Venus Williams

  Sports, Home, Ifs

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• A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.

  Nancy Lopez

  Giving Up, Pride, Winning

  Nancy Lopez (2000). “The Complete Golfer”, Galahad Books

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• What the results are telling them is that the most money is spent in volume by young people. They also see young people as the consumers of tomorrow and are trying to capture their attention from their competitors.

  Marlo Thomas

  People, Trying, Attention

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• Businesses who are members of Businesses for Social Responsibility or the Social Venture Network are internalizing costs on a voluntary basis and therefore raising their costs of doing business, but their competitors are not required to.

  Paul Hawken

  Responsibility, Cost, Venture

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• I always thought Ray Bourque was a great competitor.

  Mats Sundin

  Sports, Rays

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• The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. He always wanted to close his own deal. He never talked to you because he was battling so hard. I sure as hell don't miss batting against him, but I miss him in the game.

  Pete Rose

  Missing You, Sports, Games

  "Distance" by Roger Angell, www.newyorker.com. September 22, 1980.

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• The mutual fund industry provided the money for Intel and Motorola and Hewlett-Packard to crush the competitors.

  Jim Cramer

  Crush, Mutual Fund, Industry

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• It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

  Steve Jobs

  Music, Online, Stores

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.68, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared.

  Frank Shorter

  Sports, Running, Blow

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• One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition.

  Edwin Moses

  Competition, Beats, Majors

  Interview with Paul Schienberg, psychedonline.com. July 1, 2002.

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• By overhauling current rules and speeding the entry of competitors in the market, we encourage competition and provide our constituents with new choices and cheaper bills.

  Melissa Bean

  Choices, Competition, Bills

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• The ability to learn faster than competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.

  Arie de Geus

  Inspirational, Success, Sports

  "Planning as Learning". hbr.org. March 1988.

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