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Space travel will be like every other business. There will be competitors. . . . Thirty months from now, I'm confident we'll be flying people into space.

Richard Branson

Future, Space, People

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God was pitched out of forced schooling on his ear after WWII. This wasn't because of any constitutional proscription-there was none that anyone had been able to find in over a century and a half-but because the political state and corporate economy considered the Western spiritual tradition too dangerous a competitor. And it is.

John Taylor Gatto

Education, Spiritual, Political

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If you do it first class and you don't compromise values, and you don't compromise quality, and you don't compromise service, and you don't compromise cleanliness, then everybody else who is the competitor has got to play catch-up.

Ray Kroc

Play, Class, Quality

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We suffer not from overproduction but from undercirculation. You have heard of technocracy. I wish I had those fellows for my competitors. I'd like to take the automobile it is said they predicted could be made now that would last fifty years. Even if never used, this automobile would not be worth anything except to a junkman in ten years, because of the changes in men's tastes and ideas. This desire for change is an inherent quality in human nature, so that the present generation must not try to crystallize the needs of the future ones.

Charles Kettering

Men, Years, Ideas

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But today, just a few years into the twenty-first century, we already find ourselves in a different and precarious position. As revolutions in communications and technology have broken down barriers across the world, it has given more power to both our competitors and our enemies.

Barack Obama

Inspiring, Communication, Technology

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Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out.

Bill Gates

Business, Engineering, Wonder

"The secret of Bill Gates' success" by Charles Miller, news.bbc.co.uk. June 19, 2008.

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One of the things I benefited from when I started this business was that I didn't know anything. I was just instinct with no preconceived notions. This enabled me to learn and change quickly without having to worry about maintaining any kind of status quo, like some of my bigger competitors.

Michael Dell

Business, Worry, Maintaining

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Information is power, and the gain you get from empowering your associates more than offsets the risk of informing your competitor.

Sam Walton

Information Is Power, Empowering, Risk

Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.315, Bantam

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He (Jackie Robinson) was the greatest competitor I've ever seen. I've seen him beat a team with his bat, his ball, his glove, his feet and, in a game in Chicago one time, with his mouth.

Duke Snider

Team, Games, Feet

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In time, after a dozen years of centering their lives around the games boys play with one another, the boys' bodies change and that changes everything else. But the memories are not erased of that safest time in the lives of men, when their prime concern was playing games with guys who just wanted to be their friendly competitors. Life never again gets so simple.

Frank Pittman

Memories, Boys, Simple

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As a competitor, you have to learn pretty quickly how to deal with pressure.

Mitch Gaylord

Pressure, Deals

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The terrifying message of gay liberation is that men are capable of loving their brothers. It should be sweet news to every womanin the world, for, if the capacity of men to love whom they have been taught to treat as competitors and enemies can transcend their education, the world can begin to heal.

Jane Rule

Sweet, Brother, Gay

Jane Rule (2013). “A Hot-Eyed Moderate: Essays”, p.140, Open Road Media

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There is a tendency among some businesses to criticize and belittle their competitors. This is a bad procedure. Praise them. Learn from them. There are times when you can co-operate with them to their advantage and to yours! Speak well of them and they will speak well of you. You can't destroy good ideas. Take advantage of them.

George Matthew Adams

Ideas, Competition, Speak

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If you change the rules of the market, you can be more successful than your competitors.

Max McKeown

Successful, Ifs

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A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven't been as well taught.

Bobby Knight

Teaching, People, Giving

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I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf.

Zach Johnson

Athlete, Golf, Get Better

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I often think of a quote from entrepreneur Jim Rohn: 'You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.' Surround yourself with people who are doing interesting things, who are thinking interesting thoughts, who challenge you to be better, and who come from a diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. That, combined with appropriate moments of 'me' time, provides the perfect breeding ground for great ideas. And whatever you do, don't get hung up on what competitors are doing. Be aware of what's going on in the industry, but don't let it dictate your own creative process.

Alexis Ohanian

Thinking, Average, Ideas

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It is not up to me whether I win or lose. Ultimately, this might not be my day. And it is that philosophy towards sports, something that I really truly live by. I am emotional. I want to win. I am hungry. I am a competitor. I have that fire. But deep down, I truly enjoy the art of competing so much more than the result.

Apolo Ohno

Sports, Art, Philosophy

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Poor firms ignore their competitors; average firms copy their competitors; winning firms lead their competitors.

Philip Kotler

Winning, Average, Poor

Philip Kotler, Kevin Lane Keller, Taihong Lu (2009). “Marketing management in China”, Pearson

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I'm still here. I knocked off another competitor.

David Letterman

Stills

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From the consumer point of view, there may be questions about whether you'll have to be an AOL subscriber to get Time magazine, ... That combination of media with the access is one through which you may be able to block access to your competitors' subscribers.

Charlene Li

Block, Views, Media

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He'd met other prodigies in mathematical competitions. In fact he'd been thoroughly trounced by competitors who probably spent literally all day practising maths problems and who'd never read a science-fiction book and who would burn out completely before puberty and never amount to anything in their future lives because they'd just practised known techniques instead of learning to think creatively.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Book, Math, Thinking

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