Competitors Quotes

• The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

  Henry Ford

  Money, Funny Inspirational, Business

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• Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

  Bill Gates

  Money, Business, Apples

  "One-on-One with Bill Gates". Interview with Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com. FEbruary 16, 2005.

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• Be thankful for quality competitors who push you to your limit.

  Michael Josephson

  Being Thankful, Competition, Quality

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• No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Friends, Wisdom, Hate

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• If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.

  Jeff Bezos

  Inspirational, Educational, Waiting

  "America's Best Leaders: Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com CEO". Interview with David LaGesse, www.usnews.com. November 19, 2008.

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• If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiring, Business, Outsourcing

  "Rage against off-shoring is very real" by David Kirkpatrick, www.cnn.com. February 23, 2004.

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• Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

  Paul Gauguin

  Business, Weakness, Relative

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Crash, Program, Dies

  Guy Kawasaki (1990). “The Macintosh Way”, HarperCollins

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• I think in just about any business the low cost competitor is always going to have an advantage.

  Gerard Arpey

  Thinking, Cost, Advantage

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• My hard work and excellent training entitled me to be a better actress than some of my competitors

  Pola Negri

  Hard Work, Training, Actresses

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• Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure.

  Jared Diamond

  Country, Coffee, Effort

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• I haven't played a chess match for several decades. At one point I lost most of my chess games. Then I realized many of my competitors were memorizing the best moves and I was unwilling to do this.

  John Harsanyi

  Moving, Games, Chess Game

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• I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors.

  Aristotle Onassis

  Enemy, No Friends, Economy

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• When you are a professional sportsman all the guys are great competitors in the top 50.

  Guy Forget

  Sports, Guy, Corny

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• Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt.

  Bill Delahunt

  Bricks And Mortar, Community, Lines

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• We have, unlike many of our competitors, continued to meet our various financial obligations.

  Gerard Arpey

  Financial, Obligation, Various

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• There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.

  Nancy Kerrigan

  Sports, Exercise, Practice

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• Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But again, those advantages won't mean much if we don't do a great job with the basics of our business.

  Gerard Arpey

  Jobs, Mean, Great Job

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• In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors.

  Peter Mandelson

  Space, India, Dramatic

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• None of our competitors have ever made two systems that run the same software.

  Trip Hawkins

  Running, Two, Economy

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• People will envy you to the extent that you start out with a group of people and you rise up the organization faster than them. Get over what your peers are thinking about you because your peers are also your competitors.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Thinking About You, Organization, People

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• The thing that people seem to miss about not just Google, but also our competitors, Yahoo, eBay and so forth, is that there's an awful lot of communities that have never been served by traditional media.

  Eric Schmidt

  Ebay, Media, People

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• If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.

  Bill Parcells

  Athlete, Competition, Care

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• Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand!

  Oscar Pistorius

  Thank You, Athlete, Hands

  Twitter post from Jul 04, 2012

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• We had a couple of minor coups that made a big difference. We snared away from a competitor a correspondent already on the ground in Afghanistan. That was an enormous help to us, because there we were.

  Brit Hume

  Couple, Differences, Helping

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