Competitors Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• I always thought Ray Bourque was a great competitor.

  Mats Sundin

  Sports, Rays

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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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• 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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• Our competitors aren’t taking our market share with devices; they are taking our market share with an entire ecosystem.

  Stephen Elop

  Ecosystems, Share, Devices

  "Nokia on 'burning platform' warns boss" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2011.

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• You'll learn more in a day talking to customers than a week of brainstorming, a month of watching competitors, or a year of market research.

  Aaron Levie

  Talking, Years, Research

  Twitter post from Oct 13, 2014

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• If you do not know where your competitor is, or overconfident and snobbish about your competitor, or are unable to comprehend how yourcompetitor became a real threat, you will surely fall behind him. Don't be the "they" in this idiom: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

  Jack Ma

  Leadership, Business, Real

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• In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues. If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.

  Akio Morita

  Moving, People, May

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 175), 1986.

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• I wasn't running toward the theater but running away from the sporting goods store. Of course now that I'm selling spaghetti sauce (with Newman's Own), I begin to understand the romance of business.. the allure of being the biggest fish in the pond and the juice you get from beating out your competitors.

  Paul Newman

  Running, Business, Romance

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• Don Keough's (CEO Coca-Cola) 11 Rules on "HOW TO LOSE": 1. Stop taking risks 2. Be content 3. Never deviate from what the founder did 4. Be inflexible 5. Rely totally on research and experts 6. Concentrate on competitors instead of your customers 7. Put yourself - not the customer - first 8. Solve administrative concerns first 9. Let others do your thinking for example, headquarters 10. Rely on T-G-E: "That's Good Enough" and T-N-M-J: "That's Not My Job!" 11. Rationalize slow growth

  Donald Keough

  Jobs, Educational, Thinking

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• Smart recessionary marketing means not waiting for business to return to normal. Instead, you should cash in on this invaluable opportunity your more cautious competitors may be creating for you. If they pull back, your media investment works much harder.

  Sarah Carter

  Business, Smart, Mean

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• Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.

  Colin Powell

  America, United States, Looks

  " Politics Colin Powell criticizes Romney on foreign policy; says he has 'no problem' with gay marriage" by Felicia Sonmez, www.washingtonpost.com. May 23, 2012.

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• The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins.

  Suzanne Collins

  Girl, Fighting, Winning

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.20, Scholastic Inc.

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• So you got rid of your astonishment that someone could write so much more dynamically than you. You stopped cherishing your aloneness and poetic differentness to your delicately flat little bosom. You said: she's to good to forget. How about making her a friend and competitor — you could learn alot from her. So you'll try. So maybe she'll laugh in your face. So maybe she'll beat you hollow in the end. So anyhow, you'll try, and maybe, possibly, she can stand you. Here's hoping!

  Sylvia Plath

  Writing, Laughing, Trying

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• (About importance of focusing on one sport at a time) I've never tried to do that, we have more of a holistic approach. We want to become better decathletes and better competitors. I think for us that means just toeing the line at whatever it is we're doing that day and being confident in preparing as best as we can. Later in the year, late in the season when we have all of the thousands of reps under our belt, we can try to maybe focus on one or two things and leave some stuff off one week. Really, we like to keep everything inside the routine and part of the process.

  Trey Hardee

  Sports, Athlete, Mean

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• Practically everyone now bemoans Western man's sense of alienation, lack of community, and inability to find ways of organizing society for human ends. We have reached the end of the road that is built on the set of traits held out for male identity-advance at any cost, pay any price, drive out all competitors, and kill them if necessary.

  Jean Baker Miller

  Men, Community, Identity

  Jean Baker Miller (2012). “Toward a New Psychology of Women”, p.88, Beacon Press

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• As I have already urged, the practice of that which is ethically best - what we call goodness or virtue - involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence. In place of ruthless selfassertion it demands self-restraint; in place of thrusting aside, or treading down, all competitors, it requires that the individual shall not merely respect , but shall help his fellows. It repudiates the gladiatorial theory of existence. Laws and moral precepts are directed to the end of curbing the cosmic process.

  Thomas Huxley

  Struggle, Science, Self

  "Evolution And Ethics".

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• We can never have too much preparation and training. We must be a strong competitor. We must adhere staunchly to the basic principle that anything less than full equality is not enough. If we compromise on that principle our soul is dead.

  Ralph Bunche

  Strong, Equality, Soul

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