Competitors Quotes - Page 18

• A big part of winning is having lots of good luck. And I think a good competitor makes his own luck. That's why he is a winner. Luck to me is lots of determination lots of hard work, faith in myself, and in God.

  Lane Frost

  Determination, Hard Work, Good Luck

  241 Copy quote

• So long as TARP money is wrapped up in GM, the company will never shake its 'Government Motors' image. That label, as competitors and GM employees are keenly aware, is code for one thing: 'GM is a failure'.

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.

  Government, Long, Labels

  "Ed Whitacre: Time for 'Government Motors' to Hit the Road". www.wsj.com. September 19, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't know if I'd call myself a prodigy, but I was a big forensics competitor in high school, and then during college I spent some time working at speech and debate camps as a coach.

  Josh Gad

  School, College, Speech

  8 Copy quote

• You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're afraid of words and thought. ... They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words. ... A state of society where men may not speak their mind - where children denounce their parents to the police - where a businessman or small shopkeeper ruins his competitor by telling tales about his private opinion. Such a state of society cannot long endure if it is continually in contact with the healthy outside world.

  Winston Churchill

  Children, Men, Long

  9 Copy quote

• An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Judgment, Popularity, Obscure

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.167, 谷月社

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.

  O. J. Simpson

  Losing, Loser, Gracious

  47 Copy quote

• Not every financial company toppled during the 2008 crisis, and some seized the opportunity to take advantage of weaker competitors in the midst of the tumult.

  James C. Collins

  Opportunity, Financial, Midst

  6 Copy quote

• Customers are willing to try new things, and if you can survive, you will have fewer competitors. It's like entering the eye of the storm. As long as you are strong enough to survive, you can end up in still water by yourself.

  Brian Chesky

  Strong, Eye, Water

  15 Copy quote

• Obviously, the competitor in you, you want to be in the top three every time in the pool.

  Amanda Beard

  Three, Want, Pool

  4 Copy quote

• I saw greatness in John and he lived up to it. I also saw a tremendous competitor who loved to win. John is a standard bearer, someone that players, coaches, fans and the Raider Nation can all look up to. One of his great virtues, the fire that burned brightest in him, was his love and passion for football, which was seldom ever equaled.

  Al Davis

  Football, Passion, Greatness

  58 Copy quote

• Big mountains are a completely different world: snow, ice, rocks, sky, and thin air. You cannot conquer them, only rise to their height for a short time; and for that they demand a great deal. The struggle is not with the enemy, or a competitor like in sports, but with yourself, with the feelings of weakness and inadequacy. That struggle appeals to me. It is why I became a mountaineer.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Sports, Struggle, Rocks

  Anatoli Boukreev (2015). “Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer”, p.4, St. Martin's Griffin

  46 Copy quote

  Show source

• The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the market continuously, to produce products that meet consumer demands at lowest cost, or else be driven from the market. It is a profit-and-loss system. Naturally, existing businesses generally prefer to keep out competitors in other ways. That is why the business community, despite its rhetoric, has so often been a major enemy of truly free enterprise.

  Milton Friedman

  Business, Loss, Community

  6 Copy quote

• If your competitors start copying you then you are doing something right!

  Jay Baer

  Copying, Social Media, Ifs

  17 Copy quote

• To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor.

  Michael Novak

  Sports, Winning, Competition

  17 Copy quote

• In the world of Internet Customer Service, it's important to remember your competitor is only one mouse click away.

  Douglas A. Warner III

  Inspirational, Educational, Loyal Customers

  14 Copy quote

• As we are brought into God's extraordinary kingdom through ordinary means, we are remade, no longer fashioned as competitors for commodities in a world of scarce resources, but as co-sharers with Christ in the circulation of gifts that flows outward from its source without running out.

  Michael Horton

  Running, Mean, Ordinary

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've always been baffled by how much we over-rate the statistically insignificant differences that separate competitors at the top end of the distribution.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Differences, Baffled, Ends

  "Usain Bolt, a Collapse, and an Epic Beer Mile". Interview with Nicholas Thompson, www.newyorker.com. August 27, 2015.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• If we have the right preventive and primary care, if we start charging for comprehensive care in the chronic cases, 10 percent of the cases take up two-thirds of the medical expenses, and if we do more on problems like childhood obesity, that we can, to use the parlance that's popular in Washington, bend the cost curve and eventually reconcile this so our costs will be closer to our competitors and so we can cover everybody.

  William J. Clinton

  Curves, Two, Childhood

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system; and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies, and hatreds of his competitors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Regret, War

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Wallace E. Williams, Joseph Slater (1987). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures”, p.13, Harvard University Press

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Communicate. Listen to your customers, associates and competitors.

  J. Willard Marriott

  Communicate, Customers, Associates

  56 Copy quote

• Our higher education system is controlled by what amounts to a cartel of existing colleges and universities, which use their power over the accreditation process to block innovative, low-cost competitors from entering the market.

  Marco Rubio

  Education, Block, College

  "Rubio slams Clinton, higher ed 'cartel' in policy speech" by Eli Stokols, www.politico.com. July 07, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some people are saying it's a slap in the face for me to go to a competitor, but it also was a slap in my face that they would go out and trade for Matt Williams, especially when my situation was unsure.

  Albert Belle

  People, Faces, Slap In The Face

  Albert Belle (1998). “Don't Call Me Joey: The Wit and Wisdom of Albert Belle”, p.23, ECW Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• No amount of artificial protection can permanently maintain an obsolete product, an inferior process or a moribund organization against competitors which are based on scientifically improved products or methods.

  Karl Taylor Compton

  Organization, Competition, Protection

  4 Copy quote

• More than anything else, kindness is a way of life. It is a way of living and walking through life. It is a way of dealing with all that is-our selves, our bodies, our dreams and goals, our neighbors, our competitors, our enemies, our air, our earth, our animals, our space, our time, and our very consciousness. Do we treat all creation with kindness? Isn't all creation holy and divine?

  Jean Maalouf

  Dream, Kindness, Animal

  Jean Maalouf (2003). “The Healing Power of Kindness”, p.44, Twenty-Third Publications

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Emulation, even in brutes, is sensitively "nervous." See the tremor of the thoroughbred racer before he starts. The dray-horse does not tremble, but he does not emulate. It is not his work to run a race. Says Marcus Antoninus, "It is all one to a stone whether it be thrown upward or downward." Yet the emulation of a man of genius is seldom with his contemporaries, that is, inwardly in his mind, although outwardly in his act it would seem so. The competitors with whom his secret ambition seems to vie are the dead.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Running, Horse, Ambition

  4 Copy quote