Competitors Quotes - Page 19

• Had I made capital on my prettiness, I should have closed the doors of public employment to women for many a year, by the very means which now makes them weak, underpaid competitors in the great workshop of the world.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Beauty, Work, Mean

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• There is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair. Yet Mr. Rockefeller has systematically played with loaded dice, and it is doubtful if there has ever been a time since 1872 when he has run a race with a competitor and started fair.

  Ida Tarbell

  Running, Business, Men

  "The History of the Standard Oil Company". Book by Ida Tarbell (originally serialized in nineteen parts in McClure's Magazine), 1904.

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• When the business man who fights to secure special privileges, to crowd his competitor off the track by other than fair competitive methods, receives the same summary disdainful ostracism by his fellows that the doctor or lawyer who is 'unprofessional,' the athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.

  Ida Tarbell

  Business, Athlete, Fighting

  Ida M. Tarbell (2009). “The History of the Standard Oil Company”, p.292, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I never single out any one competitor. I treat all my rivals equally.

  Usain Bolt

  Rivals, Treats

  Interview with Cat Nelson, www.timeoutbeijing.com. August 3, 2015.

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• One thing that often disrupts momentum and really shouldn't is competitors.

  Sam Altman

  Momentum, One Thing

  "Lecture 2: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II". "How to Start a Startup" lecture, Stanford, genius.com. September 25, 2014.

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• Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered; and the diffusion of knowledge, so astonishing in the last half-century, has rendered innumerable minds, variously gifted by nature, competent to be competitors or fellow-workers on the theatre of intellectual operation.

  Daniel Webster

  Mind, Intellectual, Theatre

  Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple (2001). “The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.131, Beard Books

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• The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.

  Bruce Henderson

  Successful, Differences, Essentials

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• Japan is our rival, not our enemy. Japan is a competitor... Bashing a Toyota won't make a better car.

  Ross Perot

  Funny, Humorous, Japan

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• In the future, it will become increasingly obvious that your competitors are just as clueless as you are.

  Scott Adams

  Business, Clueless, Obvious

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• Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.

  Bruce Henderson

  Typical, Mediocrity, Should

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• Your most dangerous competitors are those that are most like you.

  Bruce Henderson

  Leadership, Like You, Dangerous

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• Chinese companies may well be competitive on their domestic market, but it will be another 6 to 8 years before they become serious competitors internationally. We should not be afraid of China, but should learn from them instead.

  Tulsi Tanti

  Years, Chinese, May

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I've got a strength and conditioning coach, a weights coach, but I've also got a nutritionist, a physiotherapist and a masseur available to me if I need it. It's quite a good network. I've also got sports scientists who record the technical information, so that, after the race, we can analyse the video and check comparisons between, not only me and the other competitors, but me and my best performance. I couldn't do it without these guys, but I'm the one who gets all the credit.

  Liam Tancock

  Sports, Race, Guy

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• BMW models are more powerful on average than competitors. This is precisely what we are aiming for: less fuel consumption and more driving pleasure.

  Norbert Reithofer

  Powerful, Average, Bmw

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Statistics compiled by the German Federal Motor Transport Authority highlight how successfully we have reduced fuel consumption. A few years ago, the CO2 emissions for the BMW brand were at well over 200 grams per kilometer. In 2009, that number was at 159 grams. This puts us below our direct competitors.

  Norbert Reithofer

  Bmw, Years, Numbers

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think about the business all the time. Well I shouldn't say all the time. I don't think about it when I am wakeboarding. But even when I am on vacation, or on my boat; I am on email everyday. I am always prowling around the internet looking at what our competitors are doing.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Thinking, Vacation

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• Here's a good rule of thumb: don't worry about a competitor at all, until they're actually beating you with a real shipped product.

  Sam Altman

  Real, Worry, Thumbs

  "Lecture 2: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II". "How to Start a Startup" lecture, Stanford, 1pdf.net. September 25, 2014.

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• Happy is the house that shelters a friend! It might well be built, like a festal bower or arch, to entertain him a single day. Happier, if he know the solemnity of that relation, and honor its law! He offers himself a candidate for that covenant comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games, where the first- born of the world are the competitors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Law, Games

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1937). “Essays, First and Second Series”, p.65, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Sports have always been a huge part of my life and my conversations. It is a thrill and an honor to be a part of this ground-breaking show. I am a competitor at heart, but a true sports fan to my core.

  Summer Sanders

  Sports, Heart, Honor

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• All true competitors in any field and walk of life take adversity and are strengthened from it. They develop a reputation of determination and toughness that wins more decisive moments in life than winning shots.
  Bobby Blair was one tough player. Playing him was like going into a phone booth with an angry bobcat. His massive talent was only surpassed by his courage to hit the big shots under the most pressure. No one ever looked forward to playing him. It was going to be pain and suffering if you wanted to go the distance it took to beat him.

  Luke Jensen

  Determination, Pain, Distance

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• protected businesses never, never become competitive ... Halliburton, Bechtel, Parsons, KPMG, RTI, Blackwater and all other U.S. corporations that were in Iraq to take advantage of the reconstruction were part of a vast protectionist racket whereby the U.S. government had created their markets with war, barred their competitors from even entering the race, then paid them to do the work, while guaranteeing them a profit to boot - all at taxpayer expense.

  Naomi Klein

  War, Race, Government

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• In a commodity business, it's very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing, Commodity, Smarter

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• The media propagates a message that corporations want, and there’s a belittling and mocking of the poor and celebration of wealth. A kind of cutthroat, rapacious capitalism is celebrated on reality television shows where you betray and manipulate and push aside your competitors for fleeting fame and money. These are sick values, but they’re disseminated through corporate media in almost every program you watch.

  Chris Hedges

  Reality, Media, Sick

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• If you are seizing on a new business opportunity, deliberately move your customers' expectations up a few notches and consistently over-deliver on your promises - you will leave your competitors struggling to catch up.

  Richard Branson

  Struggle, Moving, Opportunity

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• As a competitor, winner or loser, one crosses the line into limbo. The adrenaline is gone, the anticipation is gone. The verdict is either comforting or devestating but it neithers returns the exhilaration of the race nor helps directly to win the next. Maybe all that matters is that there is a next.

  Stefan Kieszling

  Winning, Race, Comforting

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