Business Competitors Quotes

#1. Buying market share by hiring your competitors' salespeople does nothing good for your reputation in the industry. Maybe you don't care when you're young and brash, but eventually you learn that reputation is a crucial business asset, worth much more over the long run than a few extra sales.

Norm Brodsky

#2. In general, you don't want competitors to understand your business outside of telling people your revenue and profitability numbers.

Dave Goldberg

#3. If you are seizing on a new business opportunity, deliberately move your customers' expectations up a few notches and consistently over-deliver on your promises - you will leave your competitors struggling to catch up.

Richard Branson

#4. Naturally, every boyfriend comes with an ex-girlfriend, every business comes with competitors, but it is entirely up to you to decide how much time you spend thinking about them.

Sophia Amoruso

#5. Forward thinking companies that adapt positively to the sustainable business agenda will be at the forefront of resource productivity, reducing waste and of environmental reporting. They and their management teams make things happen ahead of their competitors

Michael Meacher

#6. The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

Roy L. Smith

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

Bill Gates

#8. Business is merely a form of warfare in which each combatant strives to get the business away from his competitors and at the same time keep them from getting what he already has.

David McCullough

#9. 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

#10. Collaboratition: the art of working with our competitors.

Holly Duckworth

#11. Today's opponents can be your allies tomorrow. And today's allies can be tomorrow's opponents.

Suzy Kassem

#12. There are over 2,000 direct clones of the Groupon business model. However, there's an equal amount of proof that the barriers to success are enormous. In spite of all those competitors, only a handful are remotely relevant.

Andrew Mason

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

Bill Gates

#14. One of the things I benefited from when I started this business was that I didn't know anything. I was just instinct with no preconceived notions. This enabled me to learn and change quickly without having to worry about maintaining any kind of status quo, like some of my bigger competitors.

Michael Dell

#15. 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

#16. In Hong Kong, the property business has always been very competitive, so we have to think of ways to get an edge over our competitors.

Raymond Kwok

#17. I think about the business all the time. Well I shouldn't say all the time. I don't think about it when I am wakeboarding. But even when I am on vacation, or on my boat; I am on email everyday. I am always prowling around the internet looking at what our competitors are doing.

Larry Ellison

#18. The smart business person sees an opportunity to generate referrals by collaborating with their competitors.

Timothy M. Houston

#19. Execution is everything. Even if you start a business with the wrong idea or too many competitors, you can out-execute all the better ideas in the right market.

Robert Jordan

#20. 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

#21. Big business learned that if you stopped fighting big government, you could profit from it by killing your smaller competitors.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

#22. For the most part, the best opportunities now lie where your competitors have yet to establish themselves, not where they're already entrenched. Microsoft is struggling to adapt to that new reality.

Paul Allen

#23. The independents who were our fiercest competitors all succumbed to the one-hit-makes-you-a-genius philosophy. It is a mistake to think you have the magic touch. Show business is roulette. If you start to play for stakes you can't afford, there's no way you can survive.

Samuel Goldwyn

#24. Scout out competitors' websites. Everything your competitors think is important or relevant usually exists on their website.

John Manning

#25. Our customers are not our competitors. We compete for them, not with them.

T Jay Taylor

#26. Today's partners can be your competitors tomorrow. And today's competitors can be your partners tomorrow.

Suzy Kassem

#27. 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

#28. If you know what your customers want, the other aspect to know is what are your competitors doing?

Shawn Casemore

#29. If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.

Lee Kuan Yew

#30. 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.

Richard Branson

#31. Firstly, we analysis your competitors and then helps you to raise your level by building the most effective website design and optimization which is suitable to your business site. This is a very necessary task to increase the ranking of your website.

Mark Batty

#32. Learn as much as you can about your proposed business. Ask questions. Join industry associations. Study successful competitors carefully.

Paul Clitheroe

#33. Listen to your customers, not your competitors.

Joel Spolsky

#34. Social networks are like grease - in some cases, gasoline - for our personal business networking machines. If you aren't plugged in, you will be out-done by better-connected, hyper-networked colleagues and competitors.

Danah Boyd

#35. Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But again, those advantages won't mean much if we don't do a great job with the basics of our business.

Gerard Arpey

#36. I didn't follow the policies of those already in the business. If I had, I would never have made a go of it. Instead, I started out with the determination to make a better nickel chocolate bar than any of my competitors made, and I did so.

Milton S. Hershey

#37. In a commodity business, it's very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.

Warren Buffett

#38. Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than his living competitors.

Myrtle Reed

#39. Smart recessionary marketing means not waiting for business to return to normal. Instead, you should cash in on this invaluable opportunity your more cautious competitors may be creating for you. If they pull back, your media investment works much harder.

Sarah Carter

#40. In the future, it will become increasingly obvious that your competitors are just as clueless as you are.

Scott Adams

#41. 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

#42. No longer will I measure myself against competitors, who don't even know that a race is being run. From now on, I will measure myself against the man in front of me. I will measure myself against a new personal best, achieving my next ambitious goal.

Chris Murray

#43. In business, there is nothing more valuable than a technical advantage your competitors don't understand. In business, as in war, surprise is worth as much as force.

Paul Graham

#44. Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another city, but with millions of businesses around the world.

Victor Pinchuk