Quotes About Competitive Strategy

#1. Competitive strategy is about being different. It means deliberately choosing a different set of activities to deliver a unique mix of value.

Michael Porter

#2. 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

#3. Disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror.

Jill Lepore

#4. What if two negatives make an affirmative ... does it follow that two nobodies shall be some body?

Samuel Laman Blanchard

#5. 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

#6. Well, strategy. The competitive landscape. Morale. The dynamics of the executive team. Top performers. Bottom performers. Customer satisfaction. Pretty much everything that has a long-term impact on the success of the company. Stuff you just can't cover in weekly or monthly meetings.

Patrick Lencioni

#7. 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

#8. High-quality web content that's useful, usable, and enjoyable is one of the greatest competitive advantages you can create for yourself online.

Kristina Halvorson

#9. 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

#10. Anything can happen in the blink of an eye. Anything at all.
One.
Two.
Three.
Blink.

Meg Cabot

#11. A strategy is nothing more than a commitment to a set of coherent, mutually reinforcing policies or behaviors aimed at achieving a specific competitive goal.

Anonymous

#12. Scaling needs to be a core part of your foundation. Competition is much more intense and competitive advantages don't last long, so you have to have a "grow big fast" strategy.

Eric Schmidt

#13. And so if your competitors aren't growing, if there isn't a competitive reason to grow, and you want focus and discipline to add customers to existing stores, you adjust your strategy.

Jim Cantalupo

#14. 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

#15. For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.

Barbara Kingsolver

#16. It is very important for people to understand that the United States of America and no country around the world can devalue its way to prosperity, to be competitive. It is not a viable, feasible strategy, and we will not engage in it.

Timothy Geithner

#17. Curb Your Enthusiasm set me up so perfectly. That was one of my favorite shows before I got on it. That started a whole different level of a story for me. I didn't know how to process it until after I got on the show and realized what the purpose of it was.

J. B. Smoove

#18. The best strategy for building a competitive organization is to help individuals become more of who they are.

Marcus Buckingham

#19. It may be necessary to change our brand, catch phrases, strategy, design, etc. once in awhile. It may give us competitive advantages. But a change that demands the change of the SOUL of who we're doesn't deserve to be entertained.

Assegid Habtewold

#20. The trick is not to mind.
Not to mind about it hurting.
Not to mind about anything.

Sally Green

#21. Depression never arrives alone in Life. It brings its friends with it despair, self-injury, and suicidal Thoughts.

Unknown

#22. To make HP a great company once again, we need more than competitive costs and operational efficiency. We're in the process of assessing and refining our growth strategy, and the same concepts that were behind our operational changes will be at work here: simplicity, focus, alignment, and execution.

Bill Vaughan