Competitors Quotes - Page 6

• Successful competitors want to win. Head cases want to win at all costs.

  Nancy Lopez

  Successful, Winning, Cost

  Nancy Lopez (2000). “The Complete Golfer”, Galahad Books

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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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• 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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• If there are too many competitors, even if you're the best it's a lot harder to win.

  Tony Hsieh

  Winning, You Re The Best, Harder

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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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• 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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• 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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• I looked at my competitors and I thought that, "If they could do it, I could do it. And if, they are popular and doing well, I could compete with them."

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Wells, Ifs

  "I Am American Business", www.cnbc.com. June 24, 2012.

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• The competition between human beings destroys with cold and diabolic brutality... Under the pressure of this competitive fury we have not only forgotten what is useful to humanity as a whole, but even that which is good and advantageous to the individual. [...] One asks, which is more damaging to modern humanity: the thirst for money or consuming haste... in either case, fear plays a very important role: the fear of being overtaken by one's competitors, the fear of becoming poor, the fear of making wrong decisions or the fear of not being up to snuff...

  Konrad Lorenz

  Play, Decision, Humanity

  "Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins". Book by Konrad Lorenz, 1973.

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• Strength of will - is essential to your survival and success. The competitor who won't go away, who won't stay down, has one of the most formidable competitive advantages of all. In evaluating people, I prize ego. It often translates into a fierce desire to do their best and an inner confidence that stands them in good stead when things really get rough. Psychologists suggest that there is a strong link between ego and competitiveness. All the great performers I've ever coached had ego to spare.

  Bill Walsh

  Strong, People, Ego

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• I’m proud to be Japanese and I wanted my country to succeed. I believed my system was a way that could help us become a modern industrial nation. That is why I had no problem with sharing it with other Japanese companies, even my biggest competitors.

  Taiichi Ohno

  Country, Proud, Way

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