Competitors Quotes

• The world was not supportive. They look at me as a joke for 13 to 14 years until I could prove feasibility; then I had competitors. Those that laughed at me became my competitors.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • World
  • Me
  • Supportive

• Obsess about customers, not competitors.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Customers
  • Competitors
  • Obsess

• I realized early on, maybe better than some of my competitors did, that a textile business can run only if you have scale. I decided to horizontally and vertically integrate, adding everything from spinning, dyeing, weaving, and stitching to processing and packing.

  

  Mian Muhammad Mansha
  • Running
  • Realized
  • Weaving

• A weightlifter should be able to do everything and borrow things from other sports to beat competitors.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • Sports
  • Beat
  • Competitors

• 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
  • Results
  • Sake

• To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor.

  

  Michael Novak
  • Sports
  • Winning
  • Competitors

• Give users what they actually want, not what they say they want. And whatever you do, don't give them new features just because your competitors have them!

  

  Kathy Sierra
  • Actually
  • Whatever
  • Features

• Unlike the messier MySpace, Facebook has a cleaner and easier-to-customize interface and is much more, as Zuckerberg once described it to me, 'utilitarian.' I would call it useful and more relevant than other competitors, and a white-label version would likely be a hit.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Me
  • Useful
  • Facebook

• Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large competitors.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Speed
  • Fast
  • Competitors

• We watch our competitors, learn from them, see the things that they were doing for customers and copy those things as much as we can.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Learn
  • Customers
  • Competitors

• We got the competitors we said we'd get. We got our numbers. We had about 450 competitors and 1,500 spectators. Next year it will be even better. Every year it's going to get bigger.

  

  Larry Burns
  • Numbers
  • Competitors
  • Spectators

• Now to explore the limits of the one competitor above everyone else you've always loved to face: Steve Prefontaine.

  

  Bill Bowerman
  • Explore
  • Faces
  • Limits

• They cut maybe a little too much. They cut costs and now their costs are in pretty good shape. But their reputation among passengers has slipped at a time when their competitors are really focusing on service, trying to attract business class passengers.

  

  Jeff Long
  • Service
  • Reputation
  • Passengers

• Benchmark your performance against your best competitors. Think how you can beat them next time.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Beats

• There are a lot of doubts over the size and effect of new competitors in the cellular sector.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Doubts
  • Competitors
  • Sector

• The team that I had built was all white dudes with the same perspective on things that was at times comfortable and easy, but we weren't as innovative as our competitors.

  

  Harper Reed
  • Team
  • Competitors

• It may well be that creativity is the last unfair advantage we're legally allowed to take over our competitors.

  

  William Bernbach
  • Creativity
  • Advantage
  • Unfair

• 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.

  

  Bruce Froemming
  • Player
  • Winning
  • Competition

• Clayton Kershaw is intense. He's a competitor.He's extremely fun to play behind.

  

  Chase Utley
  • Fun
  • Play
  • Behinds

• Throughout history, new arrivals or new competitors have often been regarded as threats, but the reality is that a stronger and more confident China is good for the world.

  

  Javier Solana
  • World
  • History
  • China

• In practice, without appropriate government intervention, Smith's "invisible hand" dons brass knuckles and conducts gang warfare, creating fierce battles between competitors who would be more than happy to define and enforce their own private property interests according to their own subjective rules.

  

  Denise Caruso
  • Government
  • Practice
  • Rules

• Our progress isn't just limited to the operation. Financially, we have been performing well. United's 2015 earnings were one of the best in the company's history, and we made significant progress shrinking the margin gap with our closest competitors, strengthening our balance sheet, and returning significant cash to shareholders.

  

  Oscar Munoz
  • Balance
  • Significant
  • United

• I hope so. I don't really know what happened with the sit-down, but I hope it can be resolved because both of them are great guys. They're both competitors, and I just think somewhere along the line there was a loss of communication, and it just didn't turn out the right way.

  

  Eddy Curry
  • Communication
  • Resolved
  • I Hope So

• We just needed it, period. Just for our sake, not as far as what everyone else is talking about. Just as competitors we just needed a game. We're struggling so badly right now. Then to lose this one would have been really bad, because we played really well defensively.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Bad
  • Game
  • Period

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