Competitors Quotes - Page 12

• That's another flaw with performance-based rewards: They are easy for one of your competitors to top.

  Joel Spolsky

  Rewards, Flaws, Easy

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• You can’t really innovate for the past (your offering won’t be innovative and will be beaten easily by competitors). If you innovate for the future, then adoption will be slow until customers become ready. The trick is to task your insights team to provide guidance for the future present.

  Braden Kelley

  Team, Past, Offering

  Braden Kelley (2010). “Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire: A Roadmap to a Sustainable Culture of Ingenuity and Purpose”, p.56, John Wiley & Sons

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• I try to think about my goals. I think about my competitors-I know they're working hard, and if they are, I have to work hard too. I have to be one step ahead of them.

  Allyson Felix

  Hard Work, Thinking, Goal

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• It's easy to be a tough competitor and still be the kind of person with whom people love to compete.

  Chuck Thompson

  People, Tough, Kind

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• Once you create a loyal customer base, it's tough for a competitor to take that away.

  Joseph D Mansueto

  Loyal Customers, Tough, Loyal

  "Everything I Know, I Learned from Warren Buffett". Interview with Christopher Caggiano, www.inc.com.

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• The only time in the history of the world that we have had any extended periods of peace is when there has been a balance of power. It is when one nation becomes infinitely more powerful in relation to its potential competitors that the danger of war arises.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Powerful, War, Balance

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• I would say Diddy is the most interesting Twitter-er. I definitely will follow the hip-hop circle now that I have infiltrated the game, just so that I can be aware of my rivals and what my competitors are doing.

  Spencer Pratt

  Games, Circles, Interesting

  Source: www.complex.com

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• IBM uses what I like to call the 'hole-in-the-ground technique' to destroy the competition..... IBM digs a big HOLE in the ground and covers it with leaves. It then puts a big POT OF GOLD nearby. Then it gives the call, 'Hey, look at all this gold, get over here fast.' As soon as the competitor approaches the pot, he falls into the pit

  John C. Dvorak

  Fall, Giving, Competition

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• The greatest development after age 21 was shown by Steinitz, who increased his rating by more than a full class interval. Steinitz was the deep student and fierce competitor to the end of his career.

  Arpad Elo

  Class, Careers, Age

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• When [competitors are] in the shower in the morning, they're thinking about how they're going to get ahead of one of their top competitors. Here in the shower, we're thinking about how we are going to invent something on behalf of a customer.

  Jeff Bezos

  Morning, Thinking, Showers

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• One of the most intensely unlikeable figures of the twentieth century, fanatical anti-Semite, enemy of labour unions and proud recipient of medals from Nazi Germany, where Hitler held him in veneration, Henry Ford was also an employer who paid his workers more than his competitors, an innovator who pioneered the assembly line and a visionary whose part in the creation of the twentieth century was so great that Aldous Huxley, in his Brave New World, prefigured a society whose calendar was divided into BF and AF-Before Ford and After Ford.

  Stephen Fry

  Brave New World, Enemy, Unions

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• Michelle Kwan is an incredible artist, she wears her heart on her sleeve when she performs. She has grown so much from every influence in her career, and she has made herself the biggest star there ever will be in figure skating. She's down to Earth, friendly and always positive. Nobody will ever match her longevity or her ability to be such a strong competitor.

  Johnny Weir

  Strong, Stars, Heart

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• We're stronger and braver TOGETHER. Do not let this world and this narcissistic culture make competitors out of the very people who are meant to be your comrades in arms.

  Beth Moore

  People, Together, Stronger

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• There are multiple ways to be externally focused that are very successful. You can be customer-focused or competitor-focused. Some people are internally focused, and if they reach critical mass, they can tip the whole company.

  Jeff Bezos

  Successful, People, Way

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• That's why the smartest companies use Common Lisp, but lie about it so all their competitors think Lisp is slow and C++ is fast.

  Erik Naggum

  Lying, Thinking, Use

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• It's like athletes: To be a great company you need great competitors...It's what keeps you alive and keeps you honest.

  Craig R. Barrett

  Athlete, Needs, Alive

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• Microsoft does not dominate the software industry by any stretch of the imagination. We have lots of very able competitors who keep us constantly vigilant, and sometimes they beat us to the punch. Microsoft's success to date is based solely on the fact that people like Microsoft software.

  Bill Gates

  People, Imagination, Able

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• We get what we deserve. When we allow dirty players to be sanitized and called "intense competitors," when we accept classless gestures and taunting as healthy enthusiasm, when we cheer for the barbaric, eye-for-an-eye mentality of players throwing baseballs at each other, we get what we deserve.

  Phil Taylor

  Baseball, Cheer, Dirty

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• Learn as much as you can about your proposed business. Ask questions. Join industry associations. Study successful competitors carefully.

  Paul Clitheroe

  Successful, Association, Study

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• When you hear a lobby called Partnership for a Drug-Free America, just remember - they do not want a drug free America. They want an America free of drugs that are their competitors.

  Bill Maher

  America, Drug, Want

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• Seeing Ed Belfour have expectations higher than anyone else of him shows the kind of competitor he is. I would love to incorporate a high level of professionalism into my game.

  Marty Turco

  Games, Expectations, Levels

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• In expectation of his demise, a successful businessman may sell out to his competitors to prepare his estate with readily marketable securities, such as U.S. Treasury bonds. The confiscatory death tax eliminates many family enterprises and promotes the growth of giant corporations.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Successful, Expectations, Growth

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• Sourav Ganguly has been an excellent captain, his record speaks for himself. I found him to be a tough competitor and every Indian should feel proud of Sourav.

  Nasser Hussain

  Records, Proud, Captains

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• The best way to do business with a liar is confront them with the truth. Tell them that you do business as a partner. If your lying customer still can't see the light, tell him that you may not be the best choice for business, and that you think you have someone that can serve him better. Then, refer him to the competitor that you hate the most.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Hate, Liars, Lying

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• You want to remain hungry and stay in a good place as a competitor; at the same time, you want to be confident but not cocky. You have to realize that you can lose. We have to stay hungry, because losing is the worst thing that can happen now. That's a road we don't want to go down.

  Lamar Odom

  Cocky, Want, Losing

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