Competitors Quotes - Page 11

At a time when the average student is graduating from a four-year college $27,000 in debt, when hundreds of thousands of capable young people no longer see college as an option because of high costs and when the U.S. is falling further and further behind our economic competitors in terms of the percentage of young people graduating from college, no agreement should be passed which, over a period of years, makes a bad situation worse and will make college even less affordable than it is today.

Bernie Sanders

Fall, College, Agreement

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If my competitor were drowning I'd stick a hose in his mouth and turn on the water.

Ray Kroc

Water, Sticks, Mouths

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In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist today without the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They all wouldn't have existed without the openness of the platform. There's a strong tempation to close the platform, because they look at what they can accomplish when they limit the competitors' access to the platform, and they say 'That's really exciting.'

Gabe Newell

Strong, Epic, Order

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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I remember quotes in the paper, 'Here comes the man that New York loves to hate.' Man? None of you have probably ever eaten steak with me or rice and beans with me to understand what the man is about. You might say the player, the competitor, but the man? You guys have abused my name. You guys have said so many things, have written so many things.

Pedro Martinez

New York, Hate, Player

Pedro Martinez, Michael Silverman (2015). “Pedro”, p.301, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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For ten centuries Christianity, armed with the omnipotence of the Church and State and opposed by no competition, was able to deprave, debase, and falsify the mind of Europe. It had no competitors, because outside the Church there was neither thinkers nor educated persons. It alone taught, it alone spoke and wrote, it alone taught.

Mikhail Bakunin

Europe, Omnipotence, Competition

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What business strategy is all about-what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning-is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as efficiently as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.

Kenichi Ohmae

Gains, Would Be, Needs

Kenichi Ohmae (1982). “The Mind Of The Strategist: The Art of Japanese Business”, McGraw Hill Professional

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The competitors, like Commodore and Kaypro, were all doing speeds and feeds, whereas Steve always wanted things like “What is the significance in the world? How might this change things?

Steve Hayden

World, Might, Speed

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If the roles were reversed, I would be saying the same thing. As a competitor, you're tired of the same guy winning. I guess I understand where they're coming from and what they're saying ... I don't necessarily agree with it. I think it would be great for someone to win five straight.

Jimmie Johnson

Tired, Winning, Thinking

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Our sport is in a changing of the guard right now. It happens every 10 or 15 years, and Brad is the leader of that change at the moment. Sometimes his words and outspokenness offend some folks, but he doesn’t back down from his comments. He doesn’t back down in his driving either, and when competitors see him coming in the rearview mirror, they have to be wondering what he’ll do and what he’s thinking. I think fans love that and gravitate to drivers like Brad.

Darrell Waltrip

Sports, Thinking, Mirrors

"SPEED Quotes: Byrnes, McReynolds, Petty, Waltrip Talk 2013 NASCAR Season", www.foxnews.com. February 8, 2013.

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Competition makes you better, always, always makes you better, even if the competitor wins.

Carlos Slim

Inspirational, Business, Winning

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Throughout our history, Microsoft has won by making big, bold bets. I believe that now is not the time to scale back the scope of our ambition or the scale of our investment. While our opportunities are greater than ever, we also face new competitors, faster-moving markets and new customer demands.

Steve Ballmer

Moving, Believe, Ambition

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Just as at the Olympic games it is not the handsomest or strongest men who are crowned with victory but the successful competitors, so in life it is those who act rightly who carry off all the prizes and rewards.

Aristotle

Success, Men, Games

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We're all competitors, you know? The player wants to get a hit. The manager wants to win. I want to get it right. To tell you the truth, I just love that competition.

Bruce Froemming

Winning, Player, Competition

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Nuclear power has died of an incurable attack of market forces and is way beyond any hope of revival, because the competitors are several-fold cheaper and are getting rapidly more so.

Amory Lovins

Climate, Nuclear, Way

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As a competitor and an athlete, you have to believe in yourself. And you have to believe in the people who believe in you.

Tim Tebow

Believe, Athlete, People

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We watch our competitors, learn from them, see the things that they were doing for customers and copy those things as much as we can.

Jeff Bezos

Business, Watches, Copies

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Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy contest for superiority be crowned with honour, if not with success.

Akhenaton

Depressing, Strive, Method

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The future of television is what our competitors have been doing for years.

Tim Cook

Years, Television, Has Beens

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Sometimes your worst competitors are the ones which are dying because they do stupid things.

John Caudwell

Stupid, Dying, Sometimes

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In Gillette's case, they keep surfing along new technology which is fairly simple by the standards of microchips. But it's hard for competitors to do. So they've been able to stay constantly near the edge of improvements in shaving.

Charlie Munger

Technology, Simple, Surfing

"A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom as it Relates to Investment Management and Business". Charlie Munger's lecture to the students at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, 1994.

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Maidana is a young, strong and tough competitor. He's a guy that I can't overlook. You can never take any fighter for granted because anything can happen.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Strong, Guy, Tough

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All of our competitors around the world, every country is investing more in infrastructure as a percentage of their GDP than we are. And down the road our children and grandchildren will have to compete with that more and more.

Douglas R Oberhelman

Country, Children, Gdp

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I'm the competitor, I'm the one who has to wear the brunt of that being a good or bad score. And I'm not too worried about it. I don't know why so many are to be honest with you.

Kelly Slater

Honest, Worried, Score

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Your only competitors are your past achievements.

James Cameron

Past, Achievement, Your Past

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Competition is. In every business, no matter how small or how large, someone is just around the corner forever trying to steal your ideas and build his success out of your imagination, struggling after that which you have toiled endless years to secure, striving to outdo you in each and every way. If such a competitor would work as hard to originate as he does to copy, he would much more quickly gain success.

Alice Foote MacDougall

Success, Business, Struggle

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