Competitors Quotes

The only one I feel pressure from is myself to go and give my all for every match and, obviously, I'm a competitor.

I’ve seen - both in myself and my competitors - how satisfaction can lead to a lack of vigilance, then to mistakes and missed opportunities.

I'm a competitor. I never doubt myself.

You'll never learn a thing from a competitor weaker than you.

There's no better friend to any merchant than a fair competitor.

I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to my competitors for fear of nicking ideas off them.

I simply want to be remembered as a great competitor and a great teammate.

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

A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'.

I love innovation, I love competing. I hate my competitors. You cannot be in the world of business when you don't have this consciousness of winning.

I'm a big competitor.

You only stay in front by coming up with ideas your new competitors haven't thought of yet.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

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.

One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition.

I don't have to be enemies with someone to be competitors with them.

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.

Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.

The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

We worried about competitors, but it was an unreasonable fear. As a friend once pointed out, most gunshot wounds are self-inflicted.

My hard work and excellent training entitled me to be a better actress than some of my competitors

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.

Nuclear power has died of an incurable attack of market forces and is way beyond any hope of revival, because the competitors are several-fold cheaper and are getting rapidly more so.

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

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.

We're all competitors, you know? The player wants to get a hit. The manager wants to win. I want to get it right. To tell you the truth, I just love that competition.

Women made up 44% of Olympic competitors at London 2012 - the greatest show of gender equality in Olympic history. By comparison, in the 1908 Games men outnumbered women 53 to 1.

That's why the smartest companies use Common Lisp, but lie about it so all their competitors think Lisp is slow and C++ is fast.

We have, unlike many of our competitors, continued to meet our various financial obligations.

When you are a professional sportsman all the guys are great competitors in the top 50.

I have a strongly held belief that one of the reasons that Amazon has been successful is because we do not obsess over competitors. Instead we obsess over customers.

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

That's another flaw with performance-based rewards: They are easy for one of your competitors to top.

I am a big believer of what Darwin discovered in the Galapagos, proving that the species most responsive to change will survive over apparently stronger or more intelligent competitors.

I haven't played a chess match for several decades. At one point I lost most of my chess games. Then I realized many of my competitors were memorizing the best moves and I was unwilling to do this.

Legendary service is one of the criteria that sets one company apart from its competitors. It's the mark of a truly authentic company - you just can't fake caring!

I always thought Ray Bourque was a great competitor.

Be thankful for quality competitors who push you to your limit.

The main selling appeal of NAFTA to US corporations is that it gives them an advantage in the North American market over their European and Japanese competitors.

In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

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.

You've got to look for a gap, where competitors in a market have grown lazy and lost contact with the readers or the viewers.

We were not just competitors and colleagues, we were friends. We had a lot of opportunities to reflect on this in the last year. It was a competitive brotherhood.

None of our competitors have ever made two systems that run the same software.

If you're not a competitor, you've just got to go home.

Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade.

Success comes more quickly to the entrepreneur that follows his instincts rather than following the progress of his competitors.

Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back to the company.

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