Competitive Advantage Quotes

• If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

  Jack Welch

  Success, Encouragement, Business

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• An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Jack Welch & The G.E. Way: Management Insights and Leadership". Book by Robert Slater, 1998.

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• There are only two ways to establish competitive advantage: do things better than others or do them differently.

  Karl Albrecht

  Business, Two, Entrepreneur

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• There are only two sources of competitive advantage: the ability to learn more about our customers faster than the competition and the ability to turn that learning into action faster than the competition.

  Jack Welch

  Two, Competition, Action

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• Competitive advantage is a companys ability to perform in one or more ways that competitors cannot or will not match.

  Philip Kotler

  Way, Advantage, Ability

  Philip Kotler (2009). “Marketing Management”, p.373, Pearson Education

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• There’s no competitive advantage in being just like everyone else.

  Daniel Burrus

  Advantage

  "What Makes a Good Leader Today — And Tomorrow?" by Daniel Burrus, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 17, 2015.

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• Today knowledge is free. It's like air, it's like water... There's no competitive advantage to knowing more than the person next to you. The world doesn't care what you know. What the world cares about is what you can do with what you know.

  Tony Wagner

  Air, Knowing, Water

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• The fundamental basis of above-average performance in the long run is sustainable competitive advantage.

  Warren Buffett

  Running, Average, Long

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• Your competitive advantage must be perceivable, promotable, and something the market will pay for.

  Brian Tracy

  Competition, Pay, Advantage

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• In an economy where the only certainty is uncertainty, the one sure source of lasting competitive advantage is knowledge.

  Ikujiro Nonaka

  Economy, Advantage, Source

  Ikujiro Nonaka (2008). “The Knowledge-Creating Company”, p.7, Harvard Business Review Press

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• Employees are a company's greatest asset - they're your competitive advantage. You want to attract and retain the best; provide them with encouragement, stimulus, and make them feel that they are an integral part of the company's mission.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Encouragement, Want, Advantage

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• The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage.

  Warren Buffett

  Keys, Investing, Durability

  Warren Buffett's remarks at Herb Allen's Sun Valley in Idaho Retreat, July 1999.

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• The ability to learn faster than competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.

  Arie de Geus

  Inspirational, Success, Sports

  "Planning as Learning". hbr.org. March 1988.

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• Your employees are your company’s real competitive advantage. They’re the ones making the magic happen-so long as their needs are being met.

  Richard Branson

  Real, Long, Magic

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• The greatest competitive advantage in our modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.

  Shawn Achor

  Brain, Modern, Economy

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage.

  Peter Drucker

  Keys, Management, Economic

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  Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.

  Mark Cuban

  Success, Encouragement, Business

  Mark Cuban (2011). “How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It”, p.81, Diversion Books

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• The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.

  Charles Darwin

  Powerful, Giving, Environmental

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• Optimism is a competitive advantage.

  Jon Gordon

  Optimism, Advantage

  Twitter post from Oct 02, 2016

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• Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.

  Sam Walton

  Competition, Advantage, Expenses

  Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.317, Bantam

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• All things being equal, the primary competitive advantage of your business will be your ability to grow Leaders Without Titles faster than your industry peers.

  Robin Sharma

  Success, Leader, Peers

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• Control your own destiny or someone else will.

  Jack Welch

  Motivational, Confidence, Life Changing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes".

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• Empowering people turns Wal-Mart's culture into a competitive advantage.

  Michael Bergdahl

  People, Empowering, Culture

  Michael Bergdahl (2004). “What I Learned From Sam Walton: How to Compete and Thrive in a Wal-Mart World”, p.61, John Wiley & Sons

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• Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Teamwork, Powerful, Technology

  Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.9, John Wiley & Sons

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• Simplicity: The New Competitive Advantage in a World of More, Better, Faster.

  Bill Jensen

  Simplicity, World, Advantage

  Bill Jensen (2003). “The Simplicity Survival Handbook: 32 Ways to Do Less and Accomplish More”, p.4, Basic Books

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