Competitors Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• The sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as effectively as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.

  Kenichi Ohmae

  Purpose, Gains, Planning

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• As Christians, we're asked to give. In my sport, if someone needs equipment or help with something, regardless of who they are as a competitor, I'm called to help them for a higher purpose. So it definitely affects everything I do. It's not easy. It's very hard to love everyone.

  Elana Meyers

  Sports, Christian, Giving

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Social networks are like grease - in some cases, gasoline - for our personal business networking machines. If you aren't plugged in, you will be out-done by better-connected, hyper-networked colleagues and competitors.

  danah boyd

  Grease, Networking, Machines

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Often-times the most difficult competition comes, not from the strong, the intelligent, the conservative competitor, but from the man who is holding on by the eyelids and is ignorant of his costs, and anyway he's got to keep running or bust!

  John D. Rockefeller

  Running, Strong, Intelligent

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• I may not be the most physical player, that's not my nature. But I am a competitor and I play as hard as I can.

  Pau Gasol

  Player, May, Hard

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• In the playoffs, it is do or die. You win or you go home. As a competitor, you love it.

  Ben Roethlisberger

  Home, Winning, Playoffs

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• Like families, competitors can bring out the worst as well as the best in each other. Like romance, competition has many faces, some of them ugly. In addition to showing me my grace and graciousness, the mirror of sports has reflected back to me my jealousy, pettiness, and arrogance.

  Mariah Nelson

  Sports, Mirrors, Romance

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• You want to remain hungry and stay in a good place as a competitor; at the same time, you want to be confident but not cocky. You have to realize that you can lose. We have to stay hungry, because losing is the worst thing that can happen now. That's a road we don't want to go down.

  Lamar Odom

  Cocky, Want, Losing

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• It's like athletes: To be a great company you need great competitors...It's what keeps you alive and keeps you honest.

  Craig R. Barrett

  Athlete, Needs, Alive

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• Microsoft does not dominate the software industry by any stretch of the imagination. We have lots of very able competitors who keep us constantly vigilant, and sometimes they beat us to the punch. Microsoft's success to date is based solely on the fact that people like Microsoft software.

  Bill Gates

  People, Imagination, Able

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• We get what we deserve. When we allow dirty players to be sanitized and called "intense competitors," when we accept classless gestures and taunting as healthy enthusiasm, when we cheer for the barbaric, eye-for-an-eye mentality of players throwing baseballs at each other, we get what we deserve.

  Phil Taylor

  Baseball, Cheer, Dirty

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• Learn as much as you can about your proposed business. Ask questions. Join industry associations. Study successful competitors carefully.

  Paul Clitheroe

  Successful, Association, Study

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• Seeing Ed Belfour have expectations higher than anyone else of him shows the kind of competitor he is. I would love to incorporate a high level of professionalism into my game.

  Marty Turco

  Games, Expectations, Levels

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• When you hear a lobby called Partnership for a Drug-Free America, just remember - they do not want a drug free America. They want an America free of drugs that are their competitors.

  Bill Maher

  America, Drug, Want

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• Every company should work hard to obsolete its own product line - before its competitors do.

  Philip Kotler

  Hard Work, Lines, Obsolete

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• The best way to do business with a liar is confront them with the truth. Tell them that you do business as a partner. If your lying customer still can't see the light, tell him that you may not be the best choice for business, and that you think you have someone that can serve him better. Then, refer him to the competitor that you hate the most.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Hate, Liars, Lying

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• Sourav Ganguly has been an excellent captain, his record speaks for himself. I found him to be a tough competitor and every Indian should feel proud of Sourav.

  Nasser Hussain

  Records, Proud, Captains

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• In expectation of his demise, a successful businessman may sell out to his competitors to prepare his estate with readily marketable securities, such as U.S. Treasury bonds. The confiscatory death tax eliminates many family enterprises and promotes the growth of giant corporations.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Successful, Expectations, Growth

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• Short-term performance envy causes many of the shortcomings that lock most investors into a perpetual cycle of underachievement. Watch your competitors not out of jealousy but out of respect and focus your efforts not on replicating others' portfolios but on looking for opportunities where they are not. The only way for investors to significantly outperform is to periodically stand far apart from the crowd, something few are willing, or able, to do.

  Seth Klarman

  Opportunity, Envy, Focus

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• America's universities are filled with economically ignorant haters of the free market, so university campuses have become major forums for union denunciations of such companies as Nike, Wal-mart, and others. Faculty and students claim to be concerned about 'social justice,' but they are simply being used as dupes by unions who are not at all concerned with justice of any sort. Rather, their main concern is increasing the coffers of union treasuries by driving non-union competitors from the market.

  Thomas DiLorenzo

  Nike, America, Justice

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• It is this claim to a monopoly of meaning, rather than any special scientific doctrine, that makes science and religion look like competitors today. Scientism emerged not as the conclusion of scientific argument but as a chosen element in a worldview - a vision that attracted people by its contrast with what went before - which is, of course, how people very often do make such decisions, even ones that they afterwards call scientific.

  Mary Midgley

  People, Decision, Vision

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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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• 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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• Michelle Kwan is an incredible artist, she wears her heart on her sleeve when she performs. She has grown so much from every influence in her career, and she has made herself the biggest star there ever will be in figure skating. She's down to Earth, friendly and always positive. Nobody will ever match her longevity or her ability to be such a strong competitor.

  Johnny Weir

  Strong, Stars, Heart

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