Competitors Quotes - Page 3

• The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared.

  Frank Shorter

  Sports, Running, Blow

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• Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one.

  Niki Lauda

  Running, Long, Competition

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped.

  David Ogilvy

  Might, March, Advertising

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• And so if your competitors aren't growing, if there isn't a competitive reason to grow, and you want focus and discipline to add customers to existing stores, you adjust your strategy.

  Jim Cantalupo

  Discipline, Focus, Growing

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• Whenever I may be tempted to slack up and let the business run for awhile on its own impetus, I picture my competitor sitting at a desk in his opposition house, thinking and thinking with the most devilish intensity and clearness, and I ask myself what I can do to be prepared for his next brilliant move.

  Harry Gordon Selfridge

  Running, Business, Moving

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• The mutual fund industry provided the money for Intel and Motorola and Hewlett-Packard to crush the competitors.

  Jim Cramer

  Crush, Mutual Fund, Industry

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• Businesses who are members of Businesses for Social Responsibility or the Social Venture Network are internalizing costs on a voluntary basis and therefore raising their costs of doing business, but their competitors are not required to.

  Paul Hawken

  Responsibility, Cost, Venture

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• The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. He always wanted to close his own deal. He never talked to you because he was battling so hard. I sure as hell don't miss batting against him, but I miss him in the game.

  Pete Rose

  Missing You, Sports, Games

  "Distance" by Roger Angell, www.newyorker.com. September 22, 1980.

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• What the results are telling them is that the most money is spent in volume by young people. They also see young people as the consumers of tomorrow and are trying to capture their attention from their competitors.

  Marlo Thomas

  People, Trying, Attention

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• I always thought Ray Bourque was a great competitor.

  Mats Sundin

  Sports, Rays

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• It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

  Steve Jobs

  Music, Online, Stores

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.68, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Our competitors aren’t taking our market share with devices; they are taking our market share with an entire ecosystem.

  Stephen Elop

  Ecosystems, Share, Devices

  "Nokia on 'burning platform' warns boss" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2011.

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• You'll learn more in a day talking to customers than a week of brainstorming, a month of watching competitors, or a year of market research.

  Aaron Levie

  Talking, Years, Research

  Twitter post from Oct 13, 2014

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• If you do not know where your competitor is, or overconfident and snobbish about your competitor, or are unable to comprehend how yourcompetitor became a real threat, you will surely fall behind him. Don't be the "they" in this idiom: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

  Jack Ma

  Leadership, Business, Real

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• In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues. If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.

  Akio Morita

  Moving, People, May

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 175), 1986.

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• Successful competitors want to win. Head cases want to win at all costs.

  Nancy Lopez

  Successful, Winning, Cost

  Nancy Lopez (2000). “The Complete Golfer”, Galahad Books

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• The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father's role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts--a child--as a competitor, an intrusion and an inconvenience.. .

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Children, Father

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• In order to become a grandmaster class player whose understanding of chess is superior to the thousands of ordinary players, you have to develop within yourself a large number of qualities, the qualities of an artistic creator, a calculating practitioner, a cold calm competitor.

  Alexander Kotov

  Player, Order, Class

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• Fannie and Freddie are creations of government. They were given a huge leg up over their competitors.

  Nancy Pfotenhauer

  Government, Legs, Creation

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• Any idol, regardless of its beauty or usefulness or original purpose, is to be set aside so that Christ might reign supreme, without a single competitor.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Idols, Religion

  Charles R. Swindoll (1979). “Home, where life makes up its mind”

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• Setbacks and losses are both inevitable and essential if you're going to improve and become a good, even great, competitor. The art is in avoiding catastrophic losses in the key battles.

  Garry Kasparov

  Art, Loss, Keys

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.79, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Second, you need to spread the large amount of information knowledge that you've gained-pooping like an elephant. This means sharing information and discoveries with your fellow employees and occasionally even with your competitors.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Knowledge, Mean, Discovery

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• Competition for the sake not of destroying one another, but for the sake of bettering and improving both competitors as a result of the competition.

  Woodie Flowers

  Competition, Sake, Destroying

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• When there are doubters, it always fuels the fire a little bit. When people say you can't do something, if you are a competitor, that drives you.

  Ben Roethlisberger

  Fire, People, Fuel

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• Brands always mean something. If you don't define what the brand means, your competitors will

  Richard Branson

  Mean, Brands, Ifs

  Richard Branson (2010). “Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur”, Virgin

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