Top 79 Quotes For Your Competitors
#1. After all, if you have the majority of customers, then what you do becomes the standard. Your competitors have little choice but to follow. If you are the leader, then having a nonstandard infrastructure is a bad idea. Ultimately, it leads to extinction.
Douglas Gwyn
#2. That's another flaw with performance-based rewards: They are easy for one of your competitors to top.
Joel Spolsky
#3. 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
#4. I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you create poverty and despair, because jobs go to your competitors who have fewer rights for workers.
Louise Mensch
#5. 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
#6. In the future, it will become increasingly obvious that your competitors are just as clueless as you are.
Scott Adams
#7. I have a very simple rule when it comes to management: hire the best people from your competitors, pay them more than they were earning, and give them bonuses and incentives based on their performance. That's how you build a first-class operation.
Donald J. Trump
#8. Unless you frame yourself, others will frame you - the media, your enemies, your competitors, your well-meaning friends.
George Lakoff
#9. If you change the rules of the market, you can be more successful than your competitors.
Max McKeown
#10. As Nietzsche wrote in Thus Spake Zarathustra: "You must be proud of your enemy; then your enemy's successes are also your successes."87 Be proud of your competitors. Just don't follow them.
Eric Schmidt
#11. The next great idea for your work will probably not come from watching your competitors, but from taking an insight from an unrelated industry and applying it to your own.
Todd Henry
#12. The first - imitation - merely does enough to keep your competitors in check. It does not create space in the marketplace; all it does is temporarily ensure that the pack of nondifferentiated competitors keeping their doors open will include you.
Scott McKain
#13. You'll sacrifice a lot of things in the early part of your career to be successful, but to be ahead of your competitors, you have to work hard.
Ivan Glasenberg
#14. In business, there is nothing more valuable than a technical advantage your competitors don't understand. In business, as in war, surprise is worth as much as force.
Paul Graham
#15. Trying to do what your competitors are doing but basically a little bit better is probably not going to be the winning strategy. The problem is finding what your competitors wouldn't even consider doing.
Jamais Cascio
#16. Give users what they actually want, not what they say they want. And whatever you do, don't give them new features just because your competitors have them!
Kathy Sierra
#17. If you are seizing on a new business opportunity, deliberately move your customers' expectations up a few notches and consistently over-deliver on your promises - you will leave your competitors struggling to catch up.
Richard Branson
#18. Science and technology are the engines of prosperity. Of course, one is free to ignore science and technology, but only at your peril. The world does not stand still because you are reading a religious text. If you do not master the latest in science and technology, then your competitors will.
Michio Kaku
#19. Buying market share by hiring your competitors' salespeople does nothing good for your reputation in the industry. Maybe you don't care when you're young and brash, but eventually you learn that reputation is a crucial business asset, worth much more over the long run than a few extra sales.
Norm Brodsky
#20. Second, you need to spread the large amount of information knowledge that you've gained-pooping like an elephant. This means sharing information and discoveries with your fellow employees and occasionally even with your competitors.
Guy Kawasaki
#22. Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.
Eric Ries
#23. For the most part, the best opportunities now lie where your competitors have yet to establish themselves, not where they're already entrenched. Microsoft is struggling to adapt to that new reality.
Paul Allen
#24. Link to your competitors and say nice things about them. Remember, you're part of an industry.
Robert Scoble
#25. What are you doing at the moment? How does that compare to your competitors? What do you want to achieve? How can you create something people want?
Max McKeown
#26. Listen to your customers, not your competitors.
Joel Spolsky
#27. Wealth comes from successful individual efforts to please one's fellow man ... that's what competition is all about: "outpleasing" your competitors to win over the consumers.
Walter E. Williams
#28. Scout out competitors' websites. Everything your competitors think is important or relevant usually exists on their website.
John Manning
#29. Work with your competitors when the interest of the community and planet are at stake.
Simon Mainwaring
#30. Now if you go exactly where your competitors are, you're dead.
Thorsten Heins
#31. Look around your competitors and learn from them.
Look within for your talents and exploit them.
Look back at your failures and learn from them.
Look forward to your successes and reach for them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#32. When you innovate,
expect to make mistakes.
When you don't innovate,
expect your competitors to surpass you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#33. This law ... defines the limits of competition in the community of life. You may compete to the full extent of your capabilities, but you may not hunt down your competitors or destroy their food or deny them access to food. In other words, you may compete but you may not wage war.
Daniel Quinn
#35. Study the methods of your competitors and do the exact opposite.
David Ogilvy
#36. Today's partners can be your competitors tomorrow. And today's competitors can be your partners tomorrow.
Suzy Kassem
#37. If you know what your customers want, the other aspect to know is what are your competitors doing?
Shawn Casemore
#38. If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.
Lee Kuan Yew
#39. Why I love chess and tennis - the volleying aspect, and the fact that your competitors' reactions and motivations and bluffs come into the game itself.
Christopher Bollen
#40. From the consumer point of view, there may be questions about whether you'll have to be an AOL subscriber to get Time magazine, ... That combination of media with the access is one through which you may be able to block access to your competitors' subscribers.
Charlene Li
#41. The status quo is not your friend; in a competitive, down economy, the absence of change means death. Those who coast with current best practices may enjoy a period of time where it works. But if you don't reinvent yourself, your competitors will do it for you.
Anonymous
#42. Whatever you and your team decide your new brand will stand for, deliver on that promise. That's the only way you'll ever control your brand. And beware: brands always mean something. If you don't define what the brand means, your competitors will.
Richard Branson
#43. People will envy you to the extent that you start out with a group of people and you rise up the organization faster than them. Get over what your peers are thinking about you because your peers are also your competitors.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#44. What is your Unique Selling Proposition? What makes you different than your competitors? Wrap your advertising message around that USP and communicate it in a clear and concise manner.
Lynda Resnick
#45. If your competitors start copying you then you are doing something right!
Jay Baer
#46. The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be only sustainable competitive advantage.
Arie De Geus
#47. Firstly, we analysis your competitors and then helps you to raise your level by building the most effective website design and optimization which is suitable to your business site. This is a very necessary task to increase the ranking of your website.
Mark Batty
#48. The number one thing to steal from your competitors: Wisdom.
Seth Godin
#49. Competitors can never copy the you in your product.
Anonymous
#50. Smart recessionary marketing means not waiting for business to return to normal. Instead, you should cash in on this invaluable opportunity your more cautious competitors may be creating for you. If they pull back, your media investment works much harder.
Sarah Carter
#51. Before you were born, and were still too tiny for the human eye to see, you won the race for life from among 250 million competitors. And yet, how fast you have forgotten your strength, when your very existence is proof of your greatness.
Suzy Kassem
#52. Use your development time to brief analysts and industry press. Use these influencers as your eyes and ears to let you know what else is being developed by competitors so that you can be the first to market, and don't make the mistake of launching an also-ran product.
Jay Samit
#53. We're stronger and braver TOGETHER. Do not let this world and this narcissistic culture make competitors out of the very people who are meant to be your comrades in arms.
Beth Moore
#54. I do remember when I first went into politics, one of my competitors asked me, 'Well, Jenny Shipley, who's looking after your children?' I don't think many of my male colleagues have faced a similar question.
Jenny Shipley
#55. The standard to compare your software to is what it could be, not what your current competitors happen to have.
Paul Graham
#56. You only stay in front by coming up with ideas your new competitors haven't thought of yet.
Kevin Harrington
#57. In general, you don't want competitors to understand your business outside of telling people your revenue and profitability numbers.
Dave Goldberg
#58. You can't really innovate for the past (your offering won't be innovative and will be beaten easily by competitors). If you innovate for the future, then adoption will be slow until customers become ready. The trick is to task your insights team to provide guidance for the future present.
Braden Kelley
#59. Today's opponents can be your allies tomorrow. And today's allies can be tomorrow's opponents.
Suzy Kassem
#60. The first method is to think across the traditional boundaries of your marketplace to alternatives, not just competitors.
Brian Halligan
#61. There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.
Nancy Kerrigan
#62. Big business learned that if you stopped fighting big government, you could profit from it by killing your smaller competitors.
Thomas E. Woods Jr.
#64. In a commodity business, it's very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.
Warren Buffett
#65. Know the moment when to work diligently. Even more important, know the moment when not to work, but to relax and play instead. This will not only benefit you immensely, but also will astonish your friends and competitors.
Ernie J Zelinski
#66. Learn as much as you can about your proposed business. Ask questions. Join industry associations. Study successful competitors carefully.
Paul Clitheroe
#67. Benchmark your performance against your best competitors. Think how you can beat them next time.
Brian Tracy
#68. If you're just going to be like everyone else, why are you even doing this? If you merely replicate competitors, there's no point for your existence. Even if you wind up losing, it's better to go down fighting for what you believe in instead of just imitating others.
Jason Fried
#69. You first compete with yourself before competing against others; if you cannot beat your last best result, do not be surprised if it seems difficult to compete against external competitors.
Archibald Marwizi
#70. Your only competitors are your past achievements.
James Cameron
#71. You're not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers.
Mark Pincus
#72. You're unstoppable not because you're stronger than your challenges/competitors. It's because you're consistent. You won't quit easily!!!
Assegid Habtewold
#73. The trouble with competitors' sycophants is they don't know where to put their tongues. Here's a suggestion: Try behind your teeth. With your mouth shut.
Max Hawthorne
#74. I think it's just the nature of our game that we're friends out here, although we are competitors, we are friends. And you like to see your friend do well, and you sometimes need another pair of eyes.
Steve Stricker
#75. Be thankful for quality competitors who push you to your limit.
Michael Josephson
#76. Sometimes your worst competitors are the ones which are dying because they do stupid things.
John Caudwell
#77. No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#78. Your most dangerous competitors are those that are most like you.
Bruce Henderson
#79. Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large competitors.
Sam Altman
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