Quotes About Competition In Business

#1. Idealistic as it may sound, altruism should be the driving force in business, not just competition and a desire for wealth. - Author: Dalai Lama XIV

#2. 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. - Author: Malcolm X

#3. 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. - Author: Simon Cowell

#4. 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. - Author: Jamie Dimon

#5. Success in business means doing things better than rivals, not just doing things well. - Author: Phil Rosenzweig

#6. Lesson learned - in doing business, do not COMPETE but be COMPETITIVE. - Author: Diana Valerio

#7. 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. - Author: James Sinegal

#8. In business, competition is never as healthy as total domination. - Author: Peter Lynch

#9. 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. - Author: Edward St. Aubyn

#10. 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. - Author: Charlie Munger

#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 - Author: Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#12. 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. - Author: Suge Knight

#13. In war, resources lead to success: in business, success leads to resources. This is a fundamental difference between the processes of war and competition. - Author: John Kay

#14. Be the competition you wish to see in the world. - Author: Michael P. Naughton

#15. 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. - Author: Diane Nelson

#16. 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. - Author: George H. W. Bush

#17. 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. - Author: Andrew Carnegie

#18. 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? - Author: Michael Mace

#19. In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition. - Author: Andrew Mason

#20. 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. - Author: Emma Donoghue

#21. Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world. - Author: Karl Rove

#22. Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat. - Author: Ambrose Bierce

#23. 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. - Author: Sam Donaldson

#24. 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. - Author: Arthur Levitt

#25. In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you. - Author: Victor Kiam

#26. 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. - Author: Michael Lewis

#27. In business, politics and in life in general competition means the survival of the fittest - Author: Bangambiki Habyarimana

#28. Companies aren't families. They're battlefields in a civil war. - Author: Charles Duhigg

#29. The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution. - Author: Tom Peters

#30. The biggest challenge in business is not the competition, it's what goes on inside your own head - Author: Barbara Corcoran

#31. 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. - Author: Ilana Mercer

#32. 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. - Author: Benjamin Rush

#33. Competition in business is a blessing, for without it, we wouldn't be motivated to improve. - Author: Nabil N. Jamal

#34. 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. - Author: Jay Samit

#35. 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. - Author: Don Yaeger

#36. In science, as in business, there must be structures that ensure the well endowed do not use their position to block competition. - Author: John Sulston

#37. 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. - Author: Steven Pinker

#38. 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. - Author: Thomas J. Harbin

#39. 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. - Author: Harvey MacKay

#40. 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. - Author: T Bone Burnett

#41. 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. - Author: Tim Brown

#42. 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. - Author: George W. Stocking

#43. The positive aspect of competition in a business scenario is it helps you to be more alert and innovative. - Author: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#44. 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. - Author: Susan Cain

#45. Being properly prepared is one of the biggest assets in business and in athletic competition. - Author: Keeth Smart

#46. If I'd married someone in show business, there'd be too much competition. - Author: Dolly Parton

#47. 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. - Author: William Schreyer

#48. 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. - Author: Eric Balfour

#49. 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. - Author: Sidney Sheldon

#50. 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. - Author: Elon Musk

#51. 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. - Author: Tom Sutton