Competitors Quotes - Page 9

• Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.

  Eric Ries

  Vanity, Numbers, Want

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• Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.

  Colin Powell

  America, United States, Looks

  " Politics Colin Powell criticizes Romney on foreign policy; says he has 'no problem' with gay marriage" by Felicia Sonmez, www.washingtonpost.com. May 23, 2012.

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• Being a competitor, you always believe you can come back. I'll be up at 3 in the morning watching World Cup races in my hotel whether I'm in Asia on a business trip or in New York City and have to get up in 2 hours.

  Apolo Ohno

  Morning, New York, Believe

  "Apolo Anton Ohno closes door on 2014 comeback". Interview with Kelly Whiteside, www.usatoday.com. April 24, 2013.

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• Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we're going to win.

  Kevin O'Leary

  War, Team, Winning

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• I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor.

  Elon Musk

  Technology, California, Fruition

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Justice Department needs to investigate how Goldman Sachs was able to steer things in such a manner through their former employees in the Bush administration, so that in the end Goldman's competitors have disappeared and Goldman is left standing.

  Michael Moore

  Justice, Needs, Able

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• Oracle, for example, has even hired people to dumpster dive for information about its competitor, Microsoft. It's not even illegal, because trash isn't covered by data secrecy laws.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Law, Data, People

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• Work with your competitors when the interest of the community and planet are at stake.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Community, Stakes, Planets

  Twitter post from Dec 24, 2015

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• Since most corporate competitors have the same problems with sustainability and social reputation, it's worth trying to solve them together.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Trying, Together, Reputation

  Simon Mainwaring (2011). “We First: How Brands and Consumers Use Social Media to Build a Better World”, p.126, Macmillan

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• You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.

  Jack Ma

  Memorable, Entrepreneur, Should

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• The most interesting information I can have about a competitor is the cost.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Interesting, Cost, Information

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• If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good idea and a competitor can't copy it, then that competitor will have to think of their own way of doing it. So then, instead of just one innovator, you have two or three people trying to do something in a new way.

  James Dyson

  Thinking, Research And Development, Ideas

  "How James Dyson Makes the Ordinary Extraordinary". Interview with Shoshana Berger, www.wired.com. November 19, 2012.

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• Now most people do not want an ordinary life in which they do a job well, earn the respect of their collaborators and competitors, bring up a family and have friends. That's not enough any more, and I think that is absolutely tragic - and I'm not exaggerating - that people feel like a decent, ordinary, fun life is no longer enough.

  John Cleese

  Jobs, Fun, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.

  Eric Ries

  Worry, Trying, Patents

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• The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing.

  Rita Rudner

  Dancing, Comedian, Singing

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• It's different when you're trying to turn something around, especially something that you built, at a time when so many constituents - the media, Wall Street, competitors, ex-employees - are all saying that Starbucks's best days are behind it, and that Schultz is never going to be able to bring it back.

  Howard Schultz

  Wall, Media, Trying

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• So you got rid of your astonishment that someone could write so much more dynamically than you. You stopped cherishing your aloneness and poetic differentness to your delicately flat little bosom. You said: she's to good to forget. How about making her a friend and competitor — you could learn alot from her. So you'll try. So maybe she'll laugh in your face. So maybe she'll beat you hollow in the end. So anyhow, you'll try, and maybe, possibly, she can stand you. Here's hoping!

  Sylvia Plath

  Writing, Laughing, Trying

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• The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins.

  Suzanne Collins

  Girl, Fighting, Winning

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.20, Scholastic Inc.

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• In order to become a success, a business doesn't just have to do well, it has to to better than its competitors. Being number one isn't just about bragging rights. Often it means the difference between prospering and merely hanging on.

  Mitt Romney

  Mean, Rights, Order

  Mitt Romney (2010). “No Apology: The Case for American Greatness”, p.12, Macmillan

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• So Haymitch, what do you think of the games have one hundred percent more competitors than usual?” asks Caesar. Haymitch shrugs. “I don’t see that it makes that much difference. They’ll still be one hundred percent as stupid as usual, so I figure my odds will be roughly the same.

  Suzanne Collins

  Stupid, Thinking, Odds

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• This law … defines the limits of competition in the community of life. You may compete to the full extent of your capabilities, but you may not hunt down your competitors or destroy their food or deny them access to food. In other words, you may compete but you may not wage war.

  Daniel Quinn

  War, Law, Community

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.129, Bantam

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• The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas – complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse.

  George F. Kennan

  Ideas, Abuse, Atheism

  "American Diplomacy". Book by George F. Kennan, 1951.

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• I mean, as an athlete, as a competitor, you have to have that belief in yourself.

  Tiger Woods

  Mean, Athlete, Belief

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• It's easier for me to go to Russia and train with top coaches and choreographers there than go to Colorado Springs and train with 14 of my competitors.

  Johnny Weir

  Spring, Russia, Colorado

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• I just always expect the best because I'm a competitor and if I'm competing, then obviously I'm trying to be better in everything.

  Lil Wayne

  Trying, Competing, Ifs

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