Top 100 Quotes About Business Competition
#1. In business, competition is never as healthy as total domination.
Peter Lynch
#2. Throughout his career, Jobs liked to see himself as an enlightened rebel pitted against evil empires, a Jedi warrior or Buddhist samurai fighting the forces of darkness. IBM was his perfect foil. He cleverly cast the upcoming battle not as a mere business competition,
Walter Isaacson
#3. We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity within them, economic tyranny above and the slave spirit below.
Karl Barth
#4. In war, resources lead to success: in business, success leads to resources. This is a fundamental difference between the processes of war and competition.
John Kay
#5. I don't think you're going to have one bank. Big companies aren't going to give us all their business. So they can pick and choose - by product, by country, whatever. We have major competition across every product in every place we operate.
Jamie Dimon
#6. The simplest way to learn business is to study your competition and improve what they are offering.
Ehab Atalla
#7. Most of social media is simply a popularity contest. Well, I'm not here for the competition; I have important business and words of depth to change the course. So, while you follow the path of the ignorant, the rest of us will celebrate truth and the higher path.
Dara Reidyr
#8. 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
#9. A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.
James Cash Penney
#10. There's no difference in dealing with the music business with the majors than any other competition. The music business is way more cutthroat than any other business.
Suge Knight
#11. the prudent business mind must not only think of competing with the prevailing giants in the market but must also not be oblivious of the latent deft of the masses who are yet to dare
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#12. I saw how the regulation I called for made things worse, didn't help consumers and simple competition was better. And I started praising business and occasionally criticizing regulation.
John Stossel
#13. I have been asked sometimes what led me to the Persian Gulf, what instinct told me that I could build up a business there. It's really perfectly simple. If you go to the hottest and most uncomfortable place on the map you'll find there's not a lot of competition;
Nevil Shute
#14. In the LBO field there is a buried "covariance" with marketable equities, toward disaster in generally bad business conditions, and competition is now extremely intense.
Charlie Munger
#15. Personally I think that competition should be encouraged in war and sport and business, but that it makes no sense in the arts. If an artist is good, nobody else can do what he or she does and therefore all comparisons are incoherent.
Edward St. Aubyn
#16. The easy way to make money is to get special political privilege. From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.
Charles Koch
#17. The devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea, and the business now suffers from competition.
Josh Billings
#19. Competition exists to choose who gets the prize when the prize can't be shared.
Andrew Harvey
#20. There was a proposal in California that would keep out Wal-Mart but allow Costco. You opposed it. Are you nuts? That's true: I always oppose these kinds of things. Competition makes us better. Some of our best stores have a Sam's Club next door.
James Sinegal
#21. Those who can create, will create. Those who cannot create, will compete.
Michael F. Bruyn
#22. Lesson learned - in doing business, do not COMPETE but be COMPETITIVE.
Diana Valerio
#23. Beware of that profound enemy of the free enterprise system who pays lip-service to free competition, but also labels every antitrust prosecution as a persecution.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#24. 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
#25. I think healthy competition is good for business, and really at the end best for end-users. Just think about what Android would have been if it was not for iPhone - a better blackberry?
Jack Levin
#26. Success in business means doing things better than rivals, not just doing things well.
Phil Rosenzweig
#27. Focus on your business strengths and keep its weaknesses away from the competition or public.
Richard Branson
#28. Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.
Karl Rove
#29. The smart business person sees an opportunity to generate referrals by collaborating with their competitors.
Timothy M. Houston
#30. The reason why men who mind their own business succeed is that they have so little competition.
Evan Esar
#31. 2. A disregard of competition. Whoever does a thing best ought to be the one to do it. It is criminal to try to get business away from another man - criminal because one is then trying to lower for personal gain the condition of one's fellow man - to rule by force instead of by intelligence.
Henry Ford
#32. Digital analytics is the analysis of qualitative and quantitative data from your business and the competition to drive a continual improvement of the online experience that your customers and potential customers have which translates to your desired outcomes (both online and offline).
Anonymous
#33. One of the reasons Wall Street had cooked up this new industry called structured finance was that its old-fashioned business was every day less profitable. The profits in stockbroking, along with those in the more conventional sorts of bond broking, had been squashed by Internet competition.
Michael Lewis
#34. Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite.
Ronald Reagan
#35. In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
Victor Kiam
#36. Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry.
Arthur Levitt
#37. Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
Sam Donaldson
#38. Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far.
Henry Ford
#39. Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.
Ambrose Bierce
#40. Idealistic as it may sound, altruism should be the driving force in business, not just competition and a desire for wealth.
Dalai Lama XIV
#41. Dominant companies have a special responsibility to ensure that the way they do business doesn't prevent competition ... and does not harm consumers and innovation.
Mario Monti
#42. Many small businesses are doomed from day one, not from competition or the economy, but from the ignorance of their owners ... their destiny is already decided because they have no idea how a business should be operated.
William Manchee
#43. I'm not at all snobby about book prizes and how they pollute the world of literature. Just like with the Olympics, a little bit of competition gets people truly engrossed in the business of literature.
Emma Donoghue
#44. Think of business as a good game. Lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.
Bill Gates
#45. In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.
Andrew Mason
#46. 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
#47. If women really earned fifty-nine cents to the dollar for the same work as men, what business could compete effectively by hiring men at any level?
Warren Farrell
#48. Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
Henry Ford
#49. And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
Andrew Carnegie
#50. American business can out-think, out-work, out-perform any nation in the world. But we can't beat the competition if we don't get in the ball game.
George H. W. Bush
#51. There is a healthy competition as there would be in any business. But we do not spend our days thinking about what Marvel is doing.
Diane Nelson
#53. Tony La Russa is considered among the best in his business. Yet nearly half the time he led his organizations into competition, they were defeated - 2,728 wins, 2,365 losses.
Don Yaeger
#54. To thrive, all businesses must focus on the art of self-disruption. Rather than wait for the competition to steal your business, every founder and employee needs to be willing to cannibalize their existing revenue streams in order to create new ones. All disruption starts with introspection.
Jay Samit
#55. Competition is not about fighting, it is all about helping each other to achieve a common goal.
Joey Lawsin
#56. appeal to non-business interests) and let them be effective. Although there is marked and frequently observed dissatisfaction with the Republicans and Democrats, electoral politics is one area where notions of competition and free choice have little meaning.
Noam Chomsky
#57. Business, we use the term "judo strategy" to describe a particular way of competing. A judo approach to competition emphasizes
Anonymous
#58. Competition in business is a blessing, for without it, we wouldn't be motivated to improve.
Nabil N. Jamal
#59. Technological change is never an isolated phenomenon. This revolution takes place inside a complex ecosystem which comprises business, governmental and societal dimensions. To make a country fit for the new type of innovation-driven competition, the whole ecosystem has to be considered.
Klaus Schwab
#60. Your reciept is your library card.
On what killed the brick and mortar bookstores.
Michael P. Naughton
#61. Let us show the world that a difference of opinion upon medical subjects is not incompatible with medical friendships; and in so doing, let us throw the whole odium of the hostility of physicians to each other upon their competition for business and money.
Benjamin Rush
#62. Antitrust laws ought to be deployed, not against business, but to bust this two-party monopoly, which subverts competition in government and rewards the colluding quislings with sinecures in perpetuity.
Ilana Mercer
#63. The sport of business is the ultimate competition. It's 7 x 24 x 365 x forever.
Mark Cuban
#64. If you know what your customers want, the other aspect to know is what are your competitors doing?
Shawn Casemore
#65. In science, as in business, there must be structures that ensure the well endowed do not use their position to block competition.
John Sulston
#66. Today's partners can be your competitors tomorrow. And today's competitors can be your partners tomorrow.
Suzy Kassem
#67. Competition is simply an unestablished paternship.
Tyler Wagner
#68. Our customers are not our competitors. We compete for them, not with them.
T Jay Taylor
#69. It's not competition and greed that makes the world go around, it's cooperating and caring
Ed Mayo
#70. We need to move from comparative advantage to perpetual advantage ...
Max McKeown
#71. Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and the twentieth would be no further advanced than the eighteenth century.
William McKinley
#72. The biggest challenge in business is not the competition, it's what goes on inside your own head
Barbara Corcoran
#73. The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
Tom Peters
#74. Companies aren't families. They're battlefields in a civil war.
Charles Duhigg
#75. Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. - It is not fair. - He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. - I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it - but fear I must.
Jane Austen
#76. Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.
T Bone Burnett
#77. Men regarded ability in speaking as a peculiar gift, needed only by the lawyer, clergyman, or statesman. Today we have come to realize that it is the indispensable weapon of those who would forge ahead in the keen competition of business.
Susan Cain
#78. Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.
Malcolm X
#79. The speed of the Internet provides a fundamentally different perspective on how business relationships occur ... The approach relies on collaboration, not on competition ... on sharing information, and understanding what we as businesses do best.
Michael Dell
#81. The acceleration of the marketing process, the concentrating of manufacturing, greater diversification, increased international competition, have in turn speeded up product improvements, product innovations and new product introductions. The stakes are high, the failures costly.
Tom Sutton
#83. Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business.
Elon Musk
#84. Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.
Sidney Sheldon
#85. I'd love to say that every move I make is completely calculated and I'm sitting on a pile of scripts, sifting through them for the perfect role, but the fact is that there are a lot of talented people out there and there's a lot of competition in our business.
Eric Balfour
#86. The fact of the matter is that I've enjoyed the competition in life and the business of life; I've enjoyed all that goes with it.
William Schreyer
#87. If I'd married someone in show business, there'd be too much competition.
Dolly Parton
#88. Being properly prepared is one of the biggest assets in business and in athletic competition.
Keeth Smart
#89. 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
#90. Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.
C. Wright Mills
#91. Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.
Mark Cuban
#92. The positive aspect of competition in a business scenario is it helps you to be more alert and innovative.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#93. It is clear that both at home and abroad producers have been unwilling to trust their fortunes entirely to the unrestricted play of competition. Both in world and domestic markets businessmen have sought security by substituting collective controls for the free play of market forces.
George W. Stocking
#94. Most business processes are about making choices from a set of existing alternatives. Clearly, if all your competition is doing the same, then differentiation is tough. In order to innovate, we have to have new alternatives and new solutions to problems, and that is what design can do.
Tim Brown
#95. In business, politics and in life in general competition means the survival of the fittest
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#96. Everyone faces challenges from the fierce competition as well as the manipulative crooks that are rampant throughout the music business.
Wendy Starland
#97. Anyone who has been in business can tell war stories about the bumps in the road. But if they've outlasted the competition, ask for their stories about survival. They've figured out how to turn disappointments into opportunities.
Harvey MacKay
#98. today's heavy emphasis on competition and humiliation of your "opponent" (whether in sports, business, or family), our culture sets men up for anger and unhappiness.
Thomas J. Harbin
#99. There's a misconception that survival of the fittest means survival of the most aggressive. The adjective 'Darwinian' used to refer to ruthless competition; you used to read that in business journals. But that's not what Darwinian means to a biologist; it's whatever leads to reproductive success.
Steven Pinker
#100. At a career peak, there is certainly the specter of competition from below, but just as importantly, there's the risk that if we aren't on a curve that satisfies us emotionally, we may be the cause of our own undoing.
Whitney Johnson
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