Competitors Quotes - Page 10

• I am someone that is very competitive. When I'm on the field, I compete. When I'm practicing, when I'm in meetings. I'm a competitor in everything.

  Tim Tebow

  Fields, Meetings

  "NY Jets' Tim Tebow sits down for EXCLUSIVE interview with Daily News, talks Mark Sanchez and life as a backup quarterback". Interview with Manish Mehta, www.nydailynews.com. October 26, 2012.

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• In industries where a lot of competitors are selling the same product - mangoes, gasoline, DVD players - price is the easiest way to distinguish yourself. The hope is that if you cut prices enough you can increase your market share, and even your profits. But this works only if your competitors won't, or can't, follow suit.

  James Surowiecki

  Cutting, Player, Dvds

  "Priced To Go". www.newyorker.com. November 9, 2009.

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• The Internet will win because it is relentless. Like a cannibal, it even turns on it own. Though early portals like Prodigy and AOL once benefited from their first-mover status, competitors surpassed them as technology and consumer preferences changed.

  John Sununu

  Winning, Technology, Firsts

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• I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them.

  Robert Smith

  Ideas, Joy, Division

  "Timeless tunesmith". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2003.

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• I think that at the start of a game, you're always playing to win, and then maybe if you're ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

  Tom Brady

  Winning, Thinking, Games

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

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• Remember that you are more likely to die because you execute badly than get crushed by a competitor.

  Sam Altman

  Remember, Crushed, Dies

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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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• I’m proud to be Japanese and I wanted my country to succeed. I believed my system was a way that could help us become a modern industrial nation. That is why I had no problem with sharing it with other Japanese companies, even my biggest competitors.

  Taiichi Ohno

  Country, Proud, Way

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• We were not just competitors and colleagues, we were friends. We had a lot of opportunities to reflect on this in the last year. It was a competitive brotherhood.

  Tom Brokaw

  Opportunity, Years, Brotherhood

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• We're not competitor obsessed, we're customer obsessed. We start with the customer and we work backwards.

  Jeff Bezos

  Obsessed, Backwards, Customers

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• Competitive advantage is a companys ability to perform in one or more ways that competitors cannot or will not match.

  Philip Kotler

  Way, Advantage, Ability

  Philip Kotler (2009). “Marketing Management”, p.373, Pearson Education

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• Passing competitors always gives you a lift. It probably has a physical effect, too, because you get a surge of adrenaline.

  Libbie Hickman

  Giving, Passing, Adrenaline

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• If there are too many competitors, even if you're the best it's a lot harder to win.

  Tony Hsieh

  Winning, You Re The Best, Harder

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• The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

  Margaret Halsey

  Race, Rodents, Definitions

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• You're not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers.

  Mark Pincus

  Numbers, Copies, Smarter

  "FarmVillains " by Peter Jamison, archives.sfweekly.com. September 08, 2010.

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• If global warming is such a bad thing, then why is it taking out all of mankind's competitors? It just seems to me that the less species are out there, killing all our Caribou, the better.

  Zach Braff

  Global Warming, Killing, Mankind

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• Somewhere out there is a bullet with your company's name on it. Somewhere out there is a competitor, unborn and unknown, that will render your strategy obsolete. You can't dodge the bullet – you're going to have to shoot first. You're going to have to out-innovate the innovators.

  Gary Hamel

  Names, Bullets, Firsts

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• Admitting that it is the profession of our sex to teach, we perceive the mother to be first in point of precedence, in degree of power, in the faculty of teaching, and in the department allotted. For in point of precedence she is next to the Creator, in power over her pupil, limitless and without competitor.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Education, Mother, Sex

  Lydia Howard Sigourney (1845). “Letters to Mothers”, p.16

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• In practice, without appropriate government intervention, Smith's "invisible hand" dons brass knuckles and conducts gang warfare, creating fierce battles between competitors who would be more than happy to define and enforce their own private property interests according to their own subjective rules.

  Denise Caruso

  Government, Hands, Practice

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• Even if your competitor is still small in size or weak, you should take him seriously and treat him as a giant. Likewise, even if your competitor is massive in size, you shouldn't regard yourself as a weakling.

  Jack Ma

  Leadership, Business, Giants

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• The successful competitor, having been urged to compete, must not be turned upon when he wins.

  Learned Hand

  Successful, Winning, Competition

  "The art and craft of judging: the decisions of Judge Learned Hand".

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• The competition between human beings destroys with cold and diabolic brutality... Under the pressure of this competitive fury we have not only forgotten what is useful to humanity as a whole, but even that which is good and advantageous to the individual. [...] One asks, which is more damaging to modern humanity: the thirst for money or consuming haste... in either case, fear plays a very important role: the fear of being overtaken by one's competitors, the fear of becoming poor, the fear of making wrong decisions or the fear of not being up to snuff...

  Konrad Lorenz

  Play, Decision, Humanity

  "Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins". Book by Konrad Lorenz, 1973.

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• I looked at my competitors and I thought that, "If they could do it, I could do it. And if, they are popular and doing well, I could compete with them."

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Wells, Ifs

  "I Am American Business", www.cnbc.com. June 24, 2012.

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• As a competitor and an athlete, you love that you get to go back and challenge someone, especially the world champs.

  Tony Romo

  Athlete, Challenges, World

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• A product is something made in a factory; a brand is something that is bought by the customer. A product can be copied by a competitor; a brand is unique. A product can be quickly outdated; a successful brand is timeless.

  Stephen King

  Successful, Unique, Timeless

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