Quotes About Competitive Advantage

#1. Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.

Sam Walton

#2. Today knowledge is free. It's like air, it's like water ... There's no competitive advantage to knowing more than the person next to you. The world doesn't care what you know. What the world cares about is what you can do with what you know.

Tony Wagner

#3. Simplicity: The New Competitive Advantage in a World of More, Better, Faster.

Bill Jensen

#4. 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

#5. Develop your leaders into a competitive advantage. Reconnect your leader-power to success.

Gene Morton

#6. A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.

Walter Isaacson

#7. A competitive advantage is not just strength versus weakness but how you are better than others in what you do.

Matthew Ashimolowo

#8. Describing one competitive advantage of IBM's Deep Blue chess computer. It has no fear.

Yasser Seirawan

#9. When you find errors in conventional wisdom-when everyone says A and A is not true-you gain competitive advantage. Only a few times do you have to find errors in conventional wisdom to make a living.

Larry Ellison

#10. Smiling can be a competitive advantage. It makes everyone feel better and every situation brighter.

Richard Branson

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

Craig Dent

#12. The function of advertising is simply to promote and sustain competitive advantage for brands.

John Hegarty

#13. Giving a damn is seriously underrated and caring is a competitive advantage.

Bernadette Jiwa

#14. In an economy where the only certainty is uncertainty, the one sure source of lasting competitive advantage is knowledge.

Ikujiro Nonaka

#15. User habits are a competitive advantage. Products that change customer routines are less susceptible to attacks from other companies.

Nir Eyal

#16. I think that a lot of players and a lot of teams don't think of contact lenses as being a part of that essential gear but it truly is. You want every competitive advantage you can find and obviously having great vision is one of those advantages.

Heather O'Reilly

#17. Some white people are so accustomed to operating at a competitive advantage that when the playing field is level, they feel handicapped.

Nathan McCall

#18. The greatest competitive advantage is to allow your employees to be part of something. Something bigger than what you're doing.

Blake Mycoskie

#19. Shutterstock's ability to cultivate a healthy and expanding marketplace for both customers and contributors remains a key competitive advantage and a crucial component of our sustained growth.

Jon Oringer

#20. The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.

Charles Darwin

#21. Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage.

Peter Drucker

#22. Your employees are your company's real competitive advantage. They're the ones making the magic happen-so long as their needs are being met.

Richard Branson

#23. 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

#24. Accountability is not a consequence. In order for it to become your competitive advantage, you must be willing to change what you expect from yourself and others.

Sam Silverstein

#25. 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

#26. The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be only sustainable competitive advantage.

Arie De Geus

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

Jack Welch

#28. Genuine listening ability is one of the few true forms of competitive advantage,

Feargal Quinn

#29. We don't want a third party who may or may not have our best interests in mind or our crew members' best interests in mind because they may be serving a union of one of our competitors. They are trying to equalize us and take away our competitive advantage.

David Neeleman

#30. Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity.

George Soros

#31. The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.

Keith Henson

#32. In a world where routine production is footloose ... competitive advantage lies not in one-time breakthroughs but in continual improvements. Stable technologies get away.

Robert Reich

#33. Gross profit margin demonstrates competitive advantage: it is the purest expression of customer valuation of a product, clearly implying the premium buyers assign to a seller for having fashioned raw materials into a finished item and branding it.

Lawrence A. Cunningham

#34. Your competitive advantage must be perceivable, promotable, and something the market will pay for.

Brian Tracy

#35. Don't be color blind, be color brave. Embrace diversity as a competitive advantage.

Mellody Hobson

#36. 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

#37. sustained high gross profit margins relative to industry peers tends to indicate durable competitive advantage. Zeroing

Lawrence A. Cunningham

#38. As long as you can bootstrap, not at the sacrifice of competitive advantage, bootstrapping is a really powerful thing because it allows you to be totally devoted to your vision.

Nick Woodman

#39. Managers' responsibility is to ensure that people deliver the expected results, which are the company's strategy. The company's strategy, in turn, determines its competitive advantage. So, if a manager does a poor job of motivating employees' productivity, the enterprise is a weak competitor.

Anna Stevens

#40. You won't find a CEO who doesn't talk about a 'powerful culture' as a source of competitive advantage. At the same time, you'd be hard-pressed to find a CEO who has much of a clue about the strength of that culture.

Marcus Buckingham

#41. Effective leadership is the only competitive advantage that will endure. That's because leadership has two sides- what a person is character and what a person does- competence.

Stephen Covey

#42. Our behavior is driven by a fundamental core belief: the desire, and the ability, of an organization to continuously learn from any source, anywhere; and to rapidly convert this learning into action is its ultimate competitive advantage.

Jack Welch

#43. The competitive advantage of the twenty-first century is increasingly derived from hard-to-copy intangible assets such as company culture and leadership effectiveness.

Scott Keller

#44. Employees are a company's greatest asset - they're your competitive advantage. You want to attract and retain the best; provide them with encouragement, stimulus, and make them feel that they are an integral part of the company's mission.

Anne M. Mulcahy

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

Gary Vaynerchuk

#46. NASA needs to focus on the things that are really important and that we do not know how to do. The agency is a pioneering force, and that is where its competitive advantage lies.

Buzz Aldrin

#47. The competitive advantage professional journalism enjoys over the free is just that: professional journalists, whose paid positions give them the time and resources they need to commit more fully to the task. If we can't do better, so be it.

Douglas Rushkoff

#48. If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

Jack Welch

#49. There are only two ways to establish competitive advantage: do things better than others or do them differently.

Karl Albrecht

#50. I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#51. Design is a form of competitive advantage. People tend to think of design as good art, good visual language, which it absolutely has to be. But it's also about the ability to do systems thinking.

James P Hackett

#52. Theres no competitive advantage in being just like everyone else.

Daniel Burrus

#53. The company that consistently makes and implements decisions rapidly gains a tremendous, often decisive, competitive advantage.

Steve Blank

#54. Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.

Gary Hamel

#55. Being able to think and invest very long term and not worry about current earnings or Wall Street analysts can be a major competitive advantage in certain businesses. Acquire

Daniel Pecaut

#56. 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

#57. Empowering people turns Wal-Mart's culture into a competitive advantage.

Michael Bergdahl

#58. There are only two sources of competitive advantage: the ability to learn more about our customers faster than the competition and the ability to turn that learning into action faster than the competition.

Jack Welch

#59. 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

#60. last frontier of competitive advantage will be the transformation of unhealthy organizations into healthy ones,

Patrick Lencioni

#61. 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

#62. WTO is not the forum for labour standards. Next, the U.S. will argue the time zone difference is an unfair competitive advantage enjoyed by India that enables our software engineers to work while the Americans sleep.

Jairam Ramesh

#63. Caring, it turns out, is a competitive advantage, and one that takes effort, not money.

Seth Godin

#64. Your competitive advantage is formed by the interplay of three different, ever-changing forces: your assets, your aspirations/values, and the market realities, i.e., the supply and demand for what you offer the marketplace relative to the competition. The

Reid Hoffman

#65. The guy with the competitive advantage is the one with the best technology.

Walter Wriston

#66. Public discourse about climate change has resulted in the erroneous idea that it's all about cost, burden and sacrifice. If the math was correct, everyone would see it's about profit, jobs and competitive advantage.

Amory Lovins

#67. We may well have a competitive advantage buying decent businesses at decent prices. But they won't be fabulous businesses and fabulous prices. There's too much competition and money out there, with many buyout specialists.

Charlie Munger

#68. The only sustainable competitive advantage is an organization's ability to learn faster than the competition.

Peter M. Senge

#69. The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage.

Warren Buffett

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

Mark Salsbury

#71. Optimism is a competitive advantage.

Jon Gordon

#72. becomes a competitive advantage when it

John Kay

#73. America still has the right stuff to thrive. We still have the most creative, diverse, innovative culture and open society - in a world where the ability to imagine and generate new ideas with speed and to implement them through global collaboration is the most important competitive advantage.

Thomas Friedman

#74. Exploiting a sustainable competitive advantage is great ... If you can find it.

Rita Gunther McGrath

#75. clean, efficient, rational, and predictable government is a competitive advantage.26

Graham Allison

#76. The transaction reflects our disciplined strategy of investing capital in core businesses where we can leverage scale and expertise for competitive advantage. In addition to being a great strategic fit, the deal is compelling financially.

Jamie Dimon

#77. Developing leaders who can navigate complexity is now a strategic priority - and, if done well, a competitive advantage. Beyond developing competency and capability, we need to develop leaders with courage and compassion, consciousness and character.

Robert J. Anderson

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

Patrick Lencioni

#79. Having an achievement mindset is your competitive advantage

Maxine Phillips

#80. Conversation creates a new kind of network within organizations. Current networks are used for competitive advantage, but conversation is focused on encouraging people to realize their potential.

Theodore Zeldin

#81. An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent.

Gary Hamel

#82. Agile processes harness change for the customer's competitive advantage.

Adam Vardy

#83. Design is the last great competitive advantage.

Seth Godin

#84. I honestly believe that in this day and age of informational ubiquity and nanosecond change, teamwork remains the one sustainable competitive advantage that has been largely untapped.

Patrick Lencioni

#85. And when your phone rings, pick it up. Open yourself up to the possibility a phone call offers. Discover this remarkable device called the telephone. It will give you a serious competitive advantage.

Dan Pallotta

#86. 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

#87. Creativity may well be the last legal unfair competitive advantage we can take to run over the competition.

David Trott

#88. Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.

Patrick Lencioni

#89. I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the only way you can survive and succeed.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#90. If Mexican farm labor is so much cheaper, maybe we should be growing our fruits and vegetables in Mexico. There's absolutely no reason to import Mexicans to do something they could do at home and then sell to us. I believe this is what economists call "competitive advantage".

Ann Coulter

#91. The main benefit of innovation for your organization is not competitive advantage. It is survival.

Paul Sloane

#92. 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

#93. 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

#94. Competitive advantage is a companys ability to perform in one or more ways that competitors cannot or will not match.

Philip Kotler

#95. If we'd had government on [today's] scale in the 1840s, the stagecoaches would have hired lobbyists to get a bill passed that railroads could not travel faster than a horse because it would be an unfair competitive advantage.

Newt Gingrich

#96. Emotional labor is available to all of us,
but it is rarely exploited as a competitive
advantage.

Seth Godin

#97. 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

#98. happiness is the precursor to success, not merely the result. And that happiness and optimism actually fuel performance and achievement - giving us the competitive edge that I call the Happiness Advantage.

Shawn Achor

#99. 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

#100. When employees feel valued, and are more productive and engaged, they create a culture that can truly be a strategic advantage in today's competitive market.

Michael Hyatt