Competitive Business Quotes

#1. It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater.

John Hurt

#2. The function of profits, finally, is to put constant and unremitting pressure on the head of every competitive business to introduce further economies and efficiencies, no matter to what stage these may already have been brought.

Henry Hazlitt

#3. Women were also urged to work on a mysterious quality called 'fascination.' Coming of age in the 1920's was a competitive business ...

Susan Cain

#4. In today's competitive business world, it is not enough to do your job well; no, to be truly effective, you have to develop skills and strategies for things you'll never have to do, and situations that will never come up.

Rob Payne

#5. Our government is pleased to welcome MANA to Ontario, and were thrilled to announce renewed steel production and workers back on the job in Hamilton. Global leaders such as MANA choose to invest in Ontario because of our competitive business environment, skilled workforce and focus on innovation.

Sandra Pupatello

#6. It is a very competitive business with a lot of smart and hardworking people in it.

Dr. C.

#7. I don't mind competition at all. I mean, the record business is the most competitive business in the world, probably. So I'm used to that. In a weird way, it kind of makes you work harder.

Simon Cowell

#8. This is a competitive business - there are a lot of women who want these jobs, but experience, education, and smarts go a long way. I'm still figuring it out - I learn new things every day. Once you stop learning, you should get out of the business. It's just really about being hungry for more.

Nicole Lapin

#9. It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.

Karolina Kurkova

#10. The unhappy theory of business ethics is this: you have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profit. Period. To do anything other than that is to cheat your investors. And in a competitive world, you don't have much wiggle room here.

Seth Godin

#11. The high-mature organizational capability is the digital business differentiator, to keep the business unique, competitive, innovative, and improve the overall business maturity significantly.

Pearl Zhu

#12. I'm oddly not competitive. What I love about show business is there is a home for everyone.

Jay Mohr

#13. Be swift to take advantage of business opportunities. Bigger companies are too cumbersome to move quickly; this can be a competitive advantage for you.

Richard Branson

#14. We must recognize that "happy" is not a business goal. Service providers pursue "happy." Leaders pursue growth, competitive advantage, mission enhancement, and cost management.

Tina Nunno

#15. Our government is committed to helping our young people develop the skills and training they need to succeed. Through our Summer Company program, students can launch a business, become employers, and gain an advantage in the highly competitive global economy - all while still in school.

Brad Duguid

#16. Roughly speaking, when you are dealing with business firms operating in a competitive system, you can assume that they're going to act rationally. Why? Because someone in a firm who buys things at $10 and sells them for $8.00 isn't going to last very long in that firm.

Ronald Coase

#17. Despite our policy of candor, we will discuss our activities in marketable securities only to the extent legally required. Good investment ideas are rare, valuable and subject to competitive appropriation just as good product or business acquisition ideas are.

Warren Buffett

#18. Repeal the entire Banking Act of 1933, and Austrian School economists will cheer, especially if the current system were replaced by a 100%-reserve competitive banking with no central bank. That banking reform would give us a sound money system, meaning no more business cycle, bailouts, or inflation.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#19. 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

#20. Lesson learned - in doing business, do not COMPETE but be COMPETITIVE.

Diana Valerio

#21. We can be competitive and aim to destroy our opponent or competition, but we can still respect our rivals and even be friends.

Ben Tolosa

#22. A business leader has to keep their organization focused on the mission. That sounds easy, but it can be tremendously challenging in today's competitive and ever-changing business environment. A leader also has to motivate potential partners to join.

Meg Whitman

#23. The number one idea is to view a stock as an ownership of the business and to judge the staying quality of the business in terms of its competitive advantage. Look for more value in terms of discounted future cash-flow than you are paying for. Move only when you have an advantage.

Charlie Munger

#24. We're very focused on making News Feed really good, making our photos experience really good, making messaging really good, and creating great location apps. That's the nature of a platform business of our scale. Most companies that are relevant to us will have some overlaps in some competitive way.

Mark Zuckerberg

#25. Above all, success in business requires two things: a winning competitive strategy, and superb organizational execution. Distrust is the enemy of both. I submit that while high trust won't necessarily rescue a poor strategy, low trust will almost always derail a good one.

Stephen Covey

#26. A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.

Marvin Bower

#27. While extraordinary products and unique services still afford a competitive advantage, the one advantage that stands the test of time ... is people.

Mark Salsbury

#28. I'm a very competitive person ... I've run 12 marathons! I kayaked around Manhattan 29 miles in October! I ran the Berkshire Hathaway 5K! And I want every part of the business to compete - and play to win.

Steve Burke

#29. Creating value is an inherently cooperative process, capturing value is inherently competitive.

Barry Nalebuff

#30. The lack of education and lack of skills don't hurt the unemployed, they hurt America and American business, making us less competitive in the global market.

Robert Stempel

#31. Organizational health is the single greatest competitive advantage in any business.

Patrick Lencioni

#32. I learned that when you can turn a presentation into a conversation, you have won the battle of converting a client; and second, I learned that the real Carla was my best competitive weapon and my key personal advantage.

Carla Harris

#33. A business strategy roadmap is also composed of three elements: insights on technological possibilities, customer needs, and competitive intent. In other words, what could we build, how would people react to it, and does it give us an edge over the competition?

Michael Mace

#34. In order to access private capital, you have to provide competitive return on investment. In order to give competitive returns to investors, you've got to operate on a profitable basis and be thinking of yourself as a business.

Pierre Omidyar

#35. All things being equal, the primary competitive advantage of your business will be your ability to grow Leaders Without Titles faster than your industry peers.

Robin Sharma

#36. To the truly driven (which one has to be to survive in the high stakes, competitive world of show business), lack of opportunity means nothing. The TDs always think numbers are for everyone else and don't involve them.

K Callan

#37. Business and the environment: Wasting resources costs the earth - and lowers your competitive edge

Phil Harding

#38. Where has this book been? The Culture Engine demystifies the what and how of driving your company's culture to produce transformational business outcomes. Chris Edmonds operationalizes culture while offering practical tools necessary to align your people and gain profound competitive advantage.

Joseph Michelli

#39. Increasingly, the winners in today's business environment are those companies that know how to leverage complexity and exploit it to create competitive advantage.

Yves Morieux

#40. 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

#41. There is no sport as competitive as business. It's 24 by 7 by 365 by forever.

Mark Cuban

#42. It's through diverse opinions and perspectives that a dynamic organisation can drive innovation and create its competitive advantage.

Craig Dent

#43. If left unexecuted, even the greatest competitive strategies are not worth the paper on which they were written.

Eric Lowitt

#44. To succeed in business, you must build a brand and never destroy it. One competitive advantage I had when I ventured into manufacturing was my brand "Dangote," which I diligently built in the course of my trading commodities.

Aliko Dangote

#45. To all companies large and small, I would say this: the British economy is fundamentally strong; we are highly competitive, and we are open for business.

George Osborne

#46. I'm a competitive type of person, whether it's playing a game of basketball or playing business games.

Chuck Feeney

#47. For us to stay competitive, we're transforming our services business to be reliable and flexible.

Hans Vestberg

#48. The competitive nature of hip-hop culture has always had battling involved with it. So you battle with the other artist but not necessarily in business and everywhere else.

Curtis Jackson

#49. We all need a story. It just turns out that the story we have been told for years - that people are naturally and primarily competitive and self-interested and that life is best shaped around that bleak fact - is bunkum

Ed Mayo

#50. I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#51. Marketing and advertising are incredibly exciting and creative functions. They are central to the creation of brands and to the creation of sustainable competitive advantage for companies

Jim Speros

#52. The greater your command of brand loyalty, the less you must worry about price sensitivity and competitive promotions-and the less you must pay for marketing.

Jim Mullen

#53. You still have that competitive thing where you want to try to make hits. That won't go away, unless the mayor of show business says my time's up.

Will Ferrell

#54. If you think about photo sharing sites, the mobile photo sharing and social, there's no competitive advantage, there's no obvious business model, so I never play with anything like that. I avoid it like the plague.

Aaron Patzer

#55. Winning is an approach to life. The place it starts is not on the playing field or in the business organization; nor is it competitive. We are trying to do our best to bring perfection into whatever we turn our attention to.

Frederick Lenz

#56. I'm extremely competitive with myself. But I'm not actively competitive with other women in the business. Which may have been a mistake. I've never had someone in my life, agent or otherwise, fighting for me.

Kim Basinger

#57. I've found that men I've dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I've found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren't competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been ... challenging.

Taylor Swift

#58. Today, if you're an American business, you actually get a benefit for going overseas. You get to defer your taxes. So if you're looking at a competitive world, you say to yourself, "Hey, I do better overseas than I do here in America."

John F. Kerry

#59. In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive.

Barbra Streisand

#60. Don't compare your career to anyone else's. It's tough when you're in a business that's competitive. I was having a difficult time with that in college. Now, I'm having to learn to be patient and be where I am.

Danielle Brooks

#61. In this business, there is an insane amount of pressure, spoken and unspoken, to be thin. If you look at some of the television shows, eating disorders become like a competitive thing.

Kim Raver

#62. The high-tech business, the semiconductor business, it's very competitive. You're out there every day slugging it out, no different from players slugging it out on the ice.

Henry Samueli

#63. An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

Jack Welch

#64. Kevin Systrom of Instagram used to work for us as a consultant in the early days of Mint. I knew him a long time ago. Maybe I could have gotten in there. But with photo sharing, I don't know if there's an obvious business model. I don't think there's a competitive, sustainable advantage.

Aaron Patzer

#65. I'm probably the only person who goes to work and says 'Wow, it's really nice here and sweet,' even in the competitive movie business.

Harvey Weinstein

#66. Expansion and modernization of the nation's productive plant is essential to accelerate economic growth and to improve the international competitive position of American industry An early stimulus to business investment will promote recovery and increase employment.

John F. Kennedy

#67. If you are in a competitive industry, great online reviews are not just nice to have, they are a requirement!

Tom Kenemore

#68. Being a competitive dancer is an expensive business - you have to buy the £2,000 or so tail suit and the shoes, and then get yourself around the world to the competitions. And there is not a lot of money to be made in competing.

Anton Du Beke

#69. IT is the business's competitive differentiator to customer acquisition and retention.

Pearl Zhu

#70. There is an adage in business that says that you should only compete when you have a competitive advantage. When it comes to cybersecurity, Maryland has a whole host of competitive advantages.

Martin O'Malley

#71. I genuinely believe that any business can create a competitive advantage through giving outstanding customer care.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#72. There are two sets of business capabilities: Competitive necessity and competitive uniqueness.

Pearl Zhu

#73. either on a competitive or a cartel basis.

George W. Stocking

#74. What America is thirsting for now is a battalion of strong, down-to-earth 'doers' - managers, frontline activists, business and social entrepreneurs engaged in tackling America's manifold problems of unemployment, education, and competitive slouch.

Tina Brown