Top 100 Competitor Quotes
#1. Any idol, regardless of its beauty or usefulness or original purpose, is to be set aside so that Christ might reign supreme, without a single competitor.
Charles R. Swindoll
#2. Get your product into users' hands as quickly as possible and incorporate the crowd's feedback to iterate. Your customers will provide the data you need to chart the best course for your company and bury any competitor that goes it alone.
Jay Samit
#3. I mean, as an athlete, as a competitor, you have to have that belief in yourself.
Tiger Woods
#4. If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.
Bill Parcells
#5. When you choose to be a competitor you choose to be a survivor. When you choose to compete, you make the conscious decision to find out what your real limits are, not just what you think they are.
Pat Summitt
#6. Oracle, for example, has even hired people to dumpster dive for information about its competitor, Microsoft. It's not even illegal, because trash isn't covered by data secrecy laws.
Kevin Mitnick
#7. In a commodity business, it's very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.
Warren Buffett
#8. I read the papers, I surf the Web. At the beginning of the year, I try to see at least two episodes of every show on our network. Am I surfing? All the time. I'm aware of the landscape. I'm a competitor, so I have to know whom I'm competing with.
Leslie Moonves
#9. Seeing Ed Belfour have expectations higher than anyone else of him shows the kind of competitor he is. I would love to incorporate a high level of professionalism into my game.
Marty Turco
#10. Remember that you are more likely to die because you execute badly than get crushed by a competitor.
Sam Altman
#11. Even in the face of massive competition, don't think about the competition. Literally don't think about them. Every time you're in a meeting and you're tempted to talk about a competitor, replace that thought with one about user feedback or surveys. Just think about the customer.
Mike McCue
#12. Your competitor sees innovation as an opportunity not an inconvenience
Colin Myles
#13. As a competitor, you have to learn pretty quickly how to deal with pressure.
Mitch Gaylord
#14. Google is a fierce competitor. I wish I was worth a bazillion dollars; that would be really nice. They're a fierce competitor, and they're very good in search. They're very good with their global map thing.
Carol Bartz
#15. For a lot of companies, it's useful for them to feel like they have an obvious competitor and to rally around that. I personally believe it's better to shoot higher. You don't want to be looking at your competitors. You want to be looking at what's possible and how to make the world better.
Larry Page
#16. In the playoffs, it is do or die. You win or you go home. As a competitor, you love it.
Ben Roethlisberger
#17. It is as though in the middle of a chess tournament one competitor should suddenly begin screaming that the other is guilty of arson or bigamy. The point that is really at issue remains untouched. Libel settles nothing ...
George Orwell
#18. Part of the special challenge of being a startup is the near impossibility of having your idea, company, or product be noticed by anyone, let alone a competitor.
Eric Ries
#20. Katarina Witt. She was the ultimate competitor. She would just stare down people before competition. She was relentless on the ice.
Sarah Hughes
#21. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf.
Zach Johnson
#22. In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues. If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
Akio Morita
#23. I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.
Zach Johnson
#24. I feel it is a tremendous compliment to a natural competitor to hear "I just don't believe you're natural," because it means you just look that good.
Kai Greene
#25. We have found in a long life that one competitor is frequently enough to ruin a business.
Charlie Munger
#26. A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.
Pat Summitt
#27. I am someone that is very competitive. When I'm on the field, I compete. When I'm practicing, when I'm in meetings. I'm a competitor in everything.
Tim Tebow
#28. I'm always a competitor. I'm not there just to have a good time. I want to play well and perform well.
Matt Kuchar
#29. I just always expect the best because I'm a competitor and if I'm competing, then obviously I'm trying to be better in everything.
Lil' Wayne
#30. The only one I feel pressure from is myself to go and give my all for every match and, obviously, I'm a competitor.
Caroline Wozniacki
#31. The New York Times, with what was threatening to become a customary lack of prescience, forecast that it would never be a serious competitor for radio because "people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn't time for it."34
Bill Bryson
#32. The contest is a lion fight. So chin up, put your shoulders back, walk proud, strut a little. Don't lick your wounds. Celebrate them. The scars you bear are the sign of a competitor. You're in a lion's fight. Just because you didn't win doesn't mean you don't know how to roar.
Richard Webber
#33. He (Jackie Robinson) was the greatest competitor I've ever seen. I've seen him beat a team with his bat, his ball, his glove, his feet and, in a game in Chicago one time, with his mouth.
Duke Snider
#34. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.
Ambrose Bierce
#35. Management must take the lead in making obsolete its own products and services rather than waiting for a competitor to do so.
Peter Drucker
#36. Sourav Ganguly has been an excellent captain, his record speaks for himself. I found him to be a tough competitor and every Indian should feel proud of Sourav.
Nasser Hussain
#37. A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'.
Guy Kawasaki
#38. the prices seem to reflect how far Staples believes the user lives from a competitor's store. Staples confirmed that it varies prices by a number of factors but declined to be specific.
Julia Angwin
#39. Emmitt Smith is someone that I have great respect for - as a player, a competitor and a person. His contributions to the organization and the NFL speak for themselves.
Emmitt Smith
#40. The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
Henry Ford
#41. since nothing is more predictable than the media's parroting of its own fictions and the terror of each competitor that it will be scooped by the others, whether or not the story is true, because
John Le Carre
#42. My only real advice to Oscar nominees is, 'If you haven't actually seen a competitor's film, don't fib and say you have and blow smoke up their wahooziewhatsits.' Always best to be frank and tell them the truth.
Vera Farmiga
#43. I'm a competitor. I never doubt myself.
Rajon Rondo
#44. One of the most critical strengths of a superior competitor in any discipline - whether we are speaking about sports, business negotiations, or even presidential debates - is the ability to dictate the tone of the battle.
Josh Waitzkin
#45. Competition makes you better, always, always makes you better, even if the competitor wins.
Carlos Slim
#46. COMPETITOR is one who can steal a few deals, but, the pinch of which, A VISIONARY Never feels ... !
Sujit Lalwani
#47. Striving to 'be the best' is overrated & not smart. Grow to become only 1% better than your top competitor in your chosen field(s) of expertise.
Gary Patton
#48. Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.
J. B. Pritzker
#49. You'll never learn a thing from a competitor weaker than you.
Harvey MacKay
#50. I may not be the most physical player, that's not my nature. But I am a competitor and I play as hard as I can.
Pau Gasol
#51. Everyone who goes after a dream is a competitor, and their goal is the win. Anyone who chooses to work together with others toward the pursuit of a common goal is part of a team at some level.
Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld
#52. The fans treated me with a lot of respect, and I played as hard as possible every night. I wanted to win. I'm going to always be a competitor.
Rajon Rondo
#53. Savvy entrepreneurs adopting an abundance mindset realize there's enough business to go around. The next time you're networking, consider approaching someone you think is a competitor. Explore the possibilities of referring business to them.
Lisa A. Mininni
#54. You are to become a creator, not a competitor; you are going to get what you want, but in such a way that when you get it every other man will have more than he has now.
Wallace D. Wattles
#55. To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor.
Michael Novak
#56. Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.
Paul Gauguin
#57. So I do what any self-respecting competitor would. I shove him into the grass and take off.
Kristen Callihan
#58. As Christians, we're asked to give. In my sport, if someone needs equipment or help with something, regardless of who they are as a competitor, I'm called to help them for a higher purpose. So it definitely affects everything I do. It's not easy. It's very hard to love everyone.
Elana Meyers
#59. Setbacks and losses are both inevitable and essential if you're going to improve and become a good, even great, competitor. The art is in avoiding catastrophic losses in the key battles.
Garry Kasparov
#60. It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.
Steve Jobs
#61. I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they don't feel like it. I say this as a competitor. I am not interested in encouraging people who are in competition with me.
Garrison Keillor
#62. Before my diagnosis [cancer] I was a competitor but not a fierce competitor. When I was diagnosed, that turned me into a fighter.
Lance Armstrong
#63. Figure 6: Sirius research shows that, of the 70% of leads who are disqualified by sales, 80% end up buying eventually, often from a competitor. DATA
Steven Woods
#64. A firm that continues to employ a previously successful strategy eventually and inevitably falls victim to a competitor.
William Cohen
#65. I am a competitor, I want to go out there and lay it all on the line for my team.
Marcus Mariota
#66. It's strange that we print 'In God We Trust' on the back of his leading competitor.
James W. Miller
#67. It doesn't matter how smart you are or aren't, you need to make up in hard work what you lack in experience, skill, intelligence, or innate ability. If your competitor is smarter, more talented, or experienced, you just need to work three or four times as hard. You can still beat them!
Darren Hardy
#70. Politics gets me out of bed in the morning It's what really interests me. I'm a competitor, but I also feel like I'm contributing, whether it's working on health-care policy in the White House or out here in Chicago.
Stephanie Cutter
#71. If they did it like they did it in '96 or whenever, just picking it from one meet, what if someone had the meet of their life but they're not usually a good competitor? That could be really bad for the team. So, I think this is the best way.
Carly Patterson
#72. The honest truth is - and I have felt this way forever - is my largest competitor is myself. Always. I am intimidated by my own hang-ups about acting more so than anything, any part, any director.
Portia Doubleday
#73. By doing things when you are too tired, by pushing yourself farther than you thought you could - like running the track after a two-hour practice - you become a competitor. Each time you go beyond your perceived limit, you become mentally stronger.
Pat Summitt
#74. Now to explore the limits of the one competitor above everyone else you've always loved to face: Steve Prefontaine.
Bill Bowerman
#75. I'd much rather have the consumer buy a Wii, some accessories, and a ton of games, vs. buying any of my competitor's products.
Reggie Fils-Aime
#76. Geopolitical drama lessened but did not die after the Cold War; in 2008, the specter of thousands of seeming automatons banging drums at the opening of the Beijing Games frightened and enthralled the world, reminding us that China was a nation on the rise, a competitor for global dominance.
Ben Shapiro
#77. Sammy Baugh embodied all we aspire to at the Washington Redskins. He was a competitor in everything he did and a winner. He was one of the greatest to ever play the game of football, and one of the greatest the Redskins ever had.
Daniel Snyder
#78. It's easy to be a tough competitor and still be the kind of person with whom people love to compete.
Chuck Thompson
#79. I wasn't a competitor. I would play outside with my friends, but not really anything like ballet or soccer. I tried to play soccer, and it went badly.
Sibel Kekilli
#80. Big companies are almost always far too slow to actually kill a small competitor.
Omar Hamoui
#81. As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
Abby Wambach
#82. A great competitor, and someone who I think Indian cricket owes a lot to,
Ricky Ponting
#84. When an entrant competitor attacks the low end of any market, the rational reaction of the incumbent firms is to abandon rather than defend it - because the low end is the least profitable of their possible investments.
Clayton Christensen
#85. He won again. I'm beginning to realize that competing for who can stay the quietest isn't really a good idea when my competitor is naturally the quietest person I've ever met.
Colleen Hoover
#86. One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is that we lie to ourselves. We don't step back and look at ourselves like a competitor would.
Mark Cuban
#87. When I started running, the pain barrier was very familiar to me, and I had no problem pushing beyond the pain. When for your whole life, every single workout, you are programmed to push beyond belief, it's really hard to just turn that off and kind of just be a social competitor.
Summer Sanders
#88. My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.
Gabby Douglas
#89. We're not competitor obsessed, we're customer obsessed. We start with the customer and we work backwards.
Jeff Bezos
#90. Show me a golfer who doesn't have a mean streak, and I'll show you a weak competitor.
Lee Trevino
#91. There comes a time in every race when a competitor meets the real opponent, and understands that it's himself.
Lance Armstrong
#92. Obviously, the competitor in you, you want to be in the top three every time in the pool.
Amanda Beard
#93. I think in just about any business the low cost competitor is always going to have an advantage.
Gerard Arpey
#94. I'm a winner ... I'm a competitor. That's what I do. It doesn't make sense for me to go over and shake somebody's hand,
LeBron James
#95. Maidana is a young, strong and tough competitor. He's a guy that I can't overlook. You can never take any fighter for granted because anything can happen.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
#96. When you think about it, if the fittest always won, all forests should be completely homogeneous. One species should supplant all others as the most superior competitor. But it doesn't happen that way. Nor does it happen that way in the marketplace.
Joel A. Barker
#97. I don't want to be just an average guy. I want to do whatever possible to win a lot of games. I'm a competitor.
Felix Hernandez
#98. Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.
Charles Duhigg
#99. Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one.
Niki Lauda
#100. He who fails to know his real and true competitor shall never be able to give a good account of his stewardship in life! Your true and real competitor is your real and true solemn duty to your Maker!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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