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If you're attacking your market from multiple
positions and your competition isn't, you
have all the advantage and it will show
up in your increased success and income.
Jay
Abraham - Marketing
- Competition
- Success
New Yorkers are predatory about real estate.
When they sense softening, they move in
for the kill.
Anderson
Cooper - Real
Estate - Competition
- America
The object of this competition is not to
be mean to the losers but to find a winner.
The process makes you mean because you get
frustrated. Kids turn up unrehearsed, wearing
the wrong clothes, singing out of tune and
you can either say, "Good job"
and patronize them or tell them the truth,
and sometimes the truth is perceived as
mean.
Simon
Cowell - Mean
- Truth
- Criticism
- Competition
- Losing
- Winning
- Frustration
- Clothes
With savages, the weak in body or mind are
soon eliminated; and those that survive
commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health.
We civilized men, on the other hand, do
our utmost to check the process of elimination;
we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed,
and the sick; we institute poor-laws; and
our medical men exert their utmost skill
to save the life of every one to the last
moment. There is reason to believe that
vaccination has preserved thousands, who
from a weak constitution would formerly
have succumbed to smallpox. Thus the weak
members of civilized societies propagate
their kind. No one who has attended to the
breeding of domestic animals will doubt
that this must be highly injurious to the
race of man. It is surprising how soon a
want of care, or care wrongly directed,
leads to the degeneration of a domestic
race; but excepting in the case of man himself,
hardly any one is so ignorant as to allow
his worst animals to breed.
Charles
Darwin - Competition
- Survival
- Evolution
- Weakness
- Health
- Poverty
- Doctors
- Society
- Animal
- Life
- Ignorance
In the struggle for survival, the fittest
win out at the expense of their rivals because
they succeed in adapting themselves best
to their environment.
Charles
Darwin - Struggle
- Change
- Strength
- Winning
- Competition
- Success
- Survival
- Evolution
I have always loved the competitive forces
in this business. You know I certainly have
meetings where I spur people on by saying,
"Hey, we can do better than this. How
come we are not out ahead on that?"
Thats what keeps my job one of the most
interesting in the world.
Bill
Gates - Internet
- Innovative
- Improvement
- Competition
- Encouragement
Competition is always a fantastic thing,
and the computer industry is intensely competitive.
Whether it's Google or Apple or free software,
we've got some fantastic competitors and
it keeps us on our toes.
Bill
Gates - Technology
- Competition
They might be a good friend, but they are
also a bitter commercial rival. Let’s
not kid ourselves.. The American wheat industry
has done everything it possibly can to criticize
the Australian wheat industry in order to
take the Iraqi wheat market from us.
John
Howard - America
- Competition
- Friendship
- Australia
Our philosophy has been to be fiscally conservative,
so we can be operationally aggressive. We're
not using borrowed money to grow. So we'll
put up a store just to get there before
the competition. If it doesn't work, we'll
close it and lose a little equity. It won't
kill us.
Wayne
Huizenga - Growth
- Money
- Competition
We're looking for something where we can
make something happen: an industry where
the competition is asleep, hasn't taken
advantage. It's going to be hard to find
another Blockbuster, but that doesn't mean
you can't have three good companies growing.
The point is, we're going to be busy.
Wayne
Huizenga - Growth
- Companies
- Competition
If you're a competitive person, that stays
with you. You don't stop. You always look
over your shoulder.
Magic
Johnson - Competitive
- Winning
Research your idea. See if there's a demand.
A lot of people have great ideas, but they
don't know if there's a need for it. You
also have to research your competition.
Magic
Johnson - Competitive
- Research
- Ideas
- Demand
- Great
I just feel that my competitive drive is
far greater than anyone else that I’ve
met, and I think that I thrive on that.
Michael
Jordan - Competitive
- Great
- Motivational
In the large buy out space, which is where
we (Kohlberg Kravis Roberts) focus our efforts,
there are relatively few firms with the
capital, experience, infrastructure and
networks to compete effectively with the
large complex companies that we seek to
acquire.
Henry
Kravis - Companies
- Buying
- Assets
- Experience
- Competition
Bill Maher and I are on against each other,
and we're friends. He can do my show any
time he wants, and I've done Politically
Incorrect several times. There's no reason
to think competition has to be adversarial.
Jay
Leno - Competition
- Friends
- Political
Banks and other providers of credit to households
have been competing vigorously to expand
or protect their market share. In the process,
lending standards have been progressively
eroded so that lenders are now engaging
in practices that would have been regarded
as out of the question five or ten years
ago.
Ian
Macfarlane - Banks
- Competition
- Risk
- Growth
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.
Rupert
Murdoch - Growth
- Competition
- Lazy
- Customers
As with all politically lead governments,
foreign investment is the slowest in the
media section. Politicians are somewhat
paranoid about the media but we still think
it’s worthwhile.
Rupert
Murdoch - Change
- Media
- Government
- Competition
- Investments
I wasn't running toward the theater but
running away from the sporting goods store.
Of course now that I'm selling spaghetti
sauce (with Newman's Own), I begin to understand
the romance of business.. the allure of
being the biggest fish in the pond and the
juice you get from beating out your competitors.
Paul
Newman - Career
- Selling
- Business
- Competition
A computer once beat me at chess, but it
was no match for me at kick boxing.
Emo
Philips - Funny
- Competition
- Computers
If you know your strength it never becomes
a weakness. If the market knows your strength
then it becomes a weakness.
Shailendra
Singh - Strength
- Weakness
- Competition
- Knowledge
The pace at eBay was frantic and urgent.
We knew that if we didn't move fast, somebody
would come into the market and quash us.
Participant doesn't make a lot of sense
from a financial investment perspective,
so it's unlikely that other people will
be approaching the business in the same
way. So you see less urgency; you see a
thoroughness and willingness to spend extra
time to get things right. Which I think
is really important.
Jeff
Skoll - Competition
- Finance
- Business
- Important
Marx was right when he said capitalism would
destroy itself as capitalist would eat capitalist
until they became so big they could not
compete.
Dick
Smith - Capitalism
- Growth
- Competition
Why should we be in such desperate haste
to succeed and in such desperate enterprises?
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different
drummer. Let him step to the music which
he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry
David Thoreau - Success
- Competition
An organization's ability to learn, and
translate that learning into action
rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
Jack
Welch
- Action
- Learning
- Competition
I can't deny that Jerry Springer supposedly
beating us didn't affect me. There was a
point where I felt like, Golly, you work
so hard, you try so hard and the people
say they want meaningful television and
then Jerry Springer ends up beating you.
It was disturbing.
Oprah
Winfrey - Work
- Competition
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This is a business that thrives on competition
(Casino Resorts). For 24 hours a day, seven
days a week, the strip hosts the most violent
competition in business in America.
Steve
Wynn - Competition
- Business
On the outside, Yahoo is a fun and irreverent
place, but on the inside we are extremely
competitive.
Jerry
Yang - Competition
- Fun
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