Competitors Quotes - Page 6

• In general, great companies prefer to grow organically, as Wall Street likes to say. That is, from the inside out, by finding new markets or by taking market share from their competitors.

  Alex Berenson

  Wall, Likes, Share

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• I'd never buy something, even if it's a great brand, that is a competitor to something I already own; that's insane.

  Francois-Henri Pinault

  Insane, Brands, Ifs

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• You only stay in front by coming up with ideas your new competitors haven't thought of yet.

  Kevin Harrington

  Ideas, Havens, Fronts

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• If any of my competitors were drowning, I'd stick a hose in their mouth and turn on the water. It is ridiculous to call this an industry. This is not. This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me. You're talking about the American way - of survival of the fittest.

  Ray Kroc

  Dog, Talking, Water

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• Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.

  Charles Duhigg

  Bankers, Research, Investment

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• The game Flights of Fancy or Reverse Strip Jump is played from as high a jumping-point as a competitor will dare. After each successful jump, the competitor is allowing to put on an article of clothing. Thirteen jumps is normally more than enough to see a competitor fully dressed for the day.

  Peter Greenaway

  Successful, Jumping, Games

  "Drowning By Numbers". Comedy, Drama, 1988.

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• One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is that we lie to ourselves. We don't step back and look at ourselves like a competitor would.

  Mark Cuban

  Mistake, Lying, Entrepreneur

  "Mark Cuban Reveals The Best And Worst 'Shark Tank' Pitches And More". Interview with Jenna Goudreau, www.businessinsider.com. November 11, 2013.

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• On the Internet, there are an unlimited number of competitors. Anybody with a Flip camera is your competition. What makes it even worse is that YouTube is willing to subsidize the cost of your bandwidth. So anybody can create and distribute for free basically, but the real cost is marketing. And that's always the big cost - how do you stand out and what's the cost of standing out? And there's no limit to that cost.

  Mark Cuban

  Real, Numbers, Competition

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• The world is changing so quickly, with mobile stuff and different platforms emerging, that I think it's more likely that the biggest competitor for Facebook is someone that we haven't heard of. What that means for us is that we should just really stay focused on what we're doing.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Mean, Thinking, Different

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• Virgin Galactic, which will be operating SpaceShipTwo, will be only one of several spacelines. The competitors for Virgin include the Russians, Bezos's Blue Origin, and possibly Rocketplane Kistler. And likely a couple of others who are smart enough not to tell people what they are doing!

  Burt Rutan

  Couple, Smart, Blue

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• Our economic competitors ... are eating us for lunch, and we can get in the game or not. We can be at the table, or we can be on the table.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Motivation, Inspiration, Games

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• As for Christianity's alleged concern with truth, Christian faith is to free inquiry what the Mafia is to free enterprise. Christianity may be represented as a competitor in the realm of ideas to be considered on the basis of its merits, but this is mere disguise. Like the Mafia, if Christianity fails to defeat its competition by legitimate means (which is a forgone conclusion), it resorts to strong-arm tactics. Have faith or be damned - this biblical doctrine alone is enough to exclude Christianity from the domain of reason.

  George H. Smith

  Christian, Strong, Mean

  George H. Smith (1974). “Atheism: The Case Against God”

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• You're only as good as your dumbest competitor.

  Gordon Bethune

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• I did something rather innovative that my competitors didn't like: I took out a full-page advertisement in the Yellow Pages that listed an office on the east side of Cincinnati, and another office on the west side, while every other heating/air-conditioning company had only one location and one phone number. I was the citywide company. In fact, our 'westside office' was just an answering service taking telephone message. From the start we appeared to be a big company.

  Kevin Harrington

  Air, Yellow, Numbers

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• Women made up 44% of Olympic competitors at London 2012 - the greatest show of gender equality in Olympic history. By comparison, in the 1908 Games men outnumbered women 53 to 1.

  Donna de Varona

  Men, Games, London

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• We get brilliant results from average people managing brilliant processes - while our competitors get average or worse results from brilliant people managing broken processes

  Fujio Cho

  Average, Differences, People

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• The U.N. is one of many competitors in a marketplace of global problem solving.

  John Bolton

  Problem, Problem Solving, Marketplace

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• Professional investment may be likened to those newspaper competitions in which the competitors have to pick out the six prettiest faces from a hundred photographs, the prize being awarded to the competitor whose choice most nearly corresponds to the average preferences of the competitors as a whole.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Average, Choices, Competition

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.140, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• When a man has displayed talent in some particular path, and left all competitors behind him in it, the world are too apt to give him credit for universality of genius, and to anticipate for him success in all that he undertakes.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Giving, Genius

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.181

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• The competitor is our friend and the customer is our enemy.

  Dwayne Andreas

  Enemy, Customers

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• Some of my competitors overlook the importance of knowing as much as possible about their opponents, but I think that it is an invaluable asset that I have gained from working.

  Keeth Smart

  Thinking, Knowing, Opponents

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• Under the antitrust laws, a man becomes a criminal from the moment he goes into business, no matter what he does. If he complies with one of these laws, he faces criminal prosecution under several others. For instance, if he charges prices which some bureaucrats judge as too high, he can be prosecuted for monopoly or for a successful 'intent to monopolize'; if he charges prices lower than those of his competitors, he can be prosecuted for 'unfair competition' or 'restraint of trade'; and if he charges the same prices as his competitors, he can be prosecuted for 'collusion' or 'conspiracy.'

  Ayn Rand

  Successful, Men, Law

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.46, Penguin

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• The best I fight is when I'm just there being a competitor and enjoying myself.

  Alexis Davis

  Fighting, Mma, Enjoy

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• You'll never learn a thing from a competitor weaker than you.

  Harvey Mackay

  Competition

  Harvey Mackay (2011). “The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World”, Penguin

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• There are a lot of doubts over the size and effect of new competitors in the cellular sector.

  Antonio Machado

  Doubt, Size, Cellular

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