Competitors Quotes - Page 16

• Your most dangerous competitors are those that are most like you.

  Bruce Henderson

  Leadership, Like You, Dangerous

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• Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.

  Bruce Henderson

  Typical, Mediocrity, Should

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• In the future, it will become increasingly obvious that your competitors are just as clueless as you are.

  Scott Adams

  Business, Clueless, Obvious

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• Japan is our rival, not our enemy. Japan is a competitor... Bashing a Toyota won't make a better car.

  Ross Perot

  Funny, Humorous, Japan

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• The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.

  Bruce Henderson

  Successful, Differences, Essentials

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• Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered; and the diffusion of knowledge, so astonishing in the last half-century, has rendered innumerable minds, variously gifted by nature, competent to be competitors or fellow-workers on the theatre of intellectual operation.

  Daniel Webster

  Mind, Intellectual, Theatre

  Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple (2001). “The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.131, Beard Books

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• As we are brought into God's extraordinary kingdom through ordinary means, we are remade, no longer fashioned as competitors for commodities in a world of scarce resources, but as co-sharers with Christ in the circulation of gifts that flows outward from its source without running out.

  Michael Horton

  Running, Mean, Ordinary

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• It's easy to be a tough competitor and still be the kind of person with whom people love to compete.

  Chuck Thompson

  People, Tough, Kind

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• Once you create a loyal customer base, it's tough for a competitor to take that away.

  Joseph D Mansueto

  Loyal Customers, Tough, Loyal

  "Everything I Know, I Learned from Warren Buffett". Interview with Christopher Caggiano, www.inc.com.

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• The only time in the history of the world that we have had any extended periods of peace is when there has been a balance of power. It is when one nation becomes infinitely more powerful in relation to its potential competitors that the danger of war arises.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Powerful, War, Balance

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• I would say Diddy is the most interesting Twitter-er. I definitely will follow the hip-hop circle now that I have infiltrated the game, just so that I can be aware of my rivals and what my competitors are doing.

  Spencer Pratt

  Games, Circles, Interesting

  Source: www.complex.com

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• IBM uses what I like to call the 'hole-in-the-ground technique' to destroy the competition..... IBM digs a big HOLE in the ground and covers it with leaves. It then puts a big POT OF GOLD nearby. Then it gives the call, 'Hey, look at all this gold, get over here fast.' As soon as the competitor approaches the pot, he falls into the pit

  John C. Dvorak

  Fall, Giving, Competition

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• When [competitors are] in the shower in the morning, they're thinking about how they're going to get ahead of one of their top competitors. Here in the shower, we're thinking about how we are going to invent something on behalf of a customer.

  Jeff Bezos

  Morning, Thinking, Showers

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• That's another flaw with performance-based rewards: They are easy for one of your competitors to top.

  Joel Spolsky

  Rewards, Flaws, Easy

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• I try to think about my goals. I think about my competitors-I know they're working hard, and if they are, I have to work hard too. I have to be one step ahead of them.

  Allyson Felix

  Hard Work, Thinking, Goal

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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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• You can’t really innovate for the past (your offering won’t be innovative and will be beaten easily by competitors). If you innovate for the future, then adoption will be slow until customers become ready. The trick is to task your insights team to provide guidance for the future present.

  Braden Kelley

  Team, Past, Offering

  Braden Kelley (2010). “Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire: A Roadmap to a Sustainable Culture of Ingenuity and Purpose”, p.56, John Wiley & Sons

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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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• 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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• We're stronger and braver TOGETHER. Do not let this world and this narcissistic culture make competitors out of the very people who are meant to be your comrades in arms.

  Beth Moore

  People, Together, Stronger

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• There are multiple ways to be externally focused that are very successful. You can be customer-focused or competitor-focused. Some people are internally focused, and if they reach critical mass, they can tip the whole company.

  Jeff Bezos

  Successful, People, Way

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• That's why the smartest companies use Common Lisp, but lie about it so all their competitors think Lisp is slow and C++ is fast.

  Erik Naggum

  Lying, Thinking, Use

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