The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.
Most of your competition spend their days looking forward to those rare moments when everything goes right. Imagine how much leverage you have if you spend your time maximizing those common moments when it doesn't.
Copy, not from your industry, from others. You have to go where there is no competition.
The best marketing strategy is to destroy your industry before your competition does.
...treasure what it means to do a day's work. It's our one and only chance to do something productive today, and it's certainly not available to someone merely because he is the high bidder. A day's work is your chance to do art, to create a gift, to do something that matters. As your work gets better and your art becomes more important, competition for your gifts will increase and you'll discover that you can be choosier about whom you give them to.
Playing the game is a form of winning the game. In those competitions, we win by being resilient.
Competition and the market are like water, they go where they want
The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else. It might be the competition or a technology or the lousy things that someone did a decade ago. None of it is going to get better as a result of revisiting the grudge.
The goal, then, isn't to draw some positioning charts and announce that you have differentiated your product. No, the opportunity is to actually create something that people choose to talk about, regardless of what the competition is doing.
Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no.
There are lots of good reasons to abandon a project. Having a little competition is not one of them.
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