Competitors Quotes - Page 5

Make a list of competitors who will be disrupted by you. You do have competitors, right? You are better, right? If not, why are you going to Disrupt? Post a blog post about them and what makes you different.

Robert Scoble

Different, Blogging, Lists

"Some new geeky Facebook lists and advice for startups launching" by Robert Scoble, www.businessinsider.com. August 28, 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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Politics gets me out of bed in the morning It's what really interests me. I'm a competitor, but I also feel like I'm contributing, whether it's working on health-care policy in the White House or out here in Chicago.

Stephanie Cutter

Morning, White, House

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For the most part, the best opportunities now lie where your competitors have yet to establish themselves, not where they're already entrenched. Microsoft is struggling to adapt to that new reality.

Paul Allen

Lying, Struggle, Opportunity

Paul Allen (2011). “Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft”, p.134, Penguin

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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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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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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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NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending.

Ambrose Bierce

Leadership, Kindness, Angel

Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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Service standards keep rising. As competitors render better and better service, customers become more demanding. Their expectations grow. When every company's service is shoddy, doing a few things well can earn you a reputation as the customer's savior. But when a competitor emerges from the pack as a service leader, you have to do a lot of things right. Suddenly achieving service leadership costs more and takes longer. It may even be impossible if the competition has too much of a head start. The longer you wait, the harder it is to produce outstanding service.

Bill Davidow

Educational, Expectations, Leader

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Ideas are the engines of progress. They improve people's lives by creating better ways to do things. They build and grow successful organizations and keep them healthy and prosperous. Without the ability to get new ideas, an organization stagnates and declines and will eventually be eliminated by competitors who do have fresh ideas.

Alan Robinson

Successful, Organization, Ideas

Alan G. Robinson (2009). “Ideas Are Free: How the Idea Revolution Is Liberating People and Transforming Organizations: Easyread Edition”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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I didn't follow the policies of those already in the business. If I had, I would never have made a go of it. Instead, I started out with the determination to make a better nickel chocolate bar than any of my competitors made, and I did so.

Milton S. Hershey

Leadership, Determination, Creative

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Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set in time, because it is founded on a much higher degree of realism--has at its disposal more means of manipulating reality and of modifying it from within. The film-maker is no longer the competitor of the painter and the playwright, he is, at last the equal of the novelist

Andre Bazin

Writing, Mean, Reality

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Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.

Bill Gates

Money, Business, Past

"InfoWorld" Magazine, October 2001.

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The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competitors, the best way to put distance between you and the crowd is to do an outstanding job with information. How you gather, manage and use information will determine whether you win or lose.

Bill Gates

Meaningful, Jobs, Distance

Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.12, Hachette UK

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

Carlos Slim

Inspirational, Business, Winning

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When there are doubters, it always fuels the fire a little bit. When people say you can't do something, if you are a competitor, that drives you.

Ben Roethlisberger

Fire, People, Fuel

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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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