Quotes About Competition

our competition is not the FAANGs—it's the other horses in our industry and tiny little software startups that are encroaching on our market.

In 1958, the Fortune 500 tenure was 61 years; now it's only 18 years.

Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning, you get off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking.

On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory.

I think he and the Princess are engaged in an unofficial game of Who Can Show They're More Important by Arriving Last, not that either of them would admit it.

Right when I was about to serve (which was traumatic enough, because I am even worse at volleyball than I am at Jenga),

The single most important difference between early markets and mainstream markets is that the former are willing to take responsibility for piecing together the whole product (in return for getting a jump on their competition), whereas the latter are not.

Why is it so important to attack your competitors during a tornado instead of serve your customers? Why, specifically, was Larry Ellison once quoted as saying, citing Genghis Khan, "It is not enough that we win—all others must lose"?

Compelling reason to buy • Whole product • Partners and allies • Distribution • Pricing • Competition • Positioning • Next target customer

It turns out, to disrupt someone else's business, you have to add a net new line of business to your own portfolio. This

Why me?' cries out the unsuccessful entrepreneur. Or rather 'Why not me?' 'Why not us?' chorus his equally unsuccessful investors. 'Look at our product. Is it not as good--nay, better--than the product that beat us out?'.... In fact, feature for feature, the less successful product is often arguably superior.

The competition takes place at the level of corporate agenda, not at the level of competing products. That

you get installed by the pragmatists as the leader, and from then on, they conspire to help keep you there.

the less successful product is often arguably superior. Not content to slink off the stage without some revenge, this sullen and resentful crew casts about among themselves to find a scapegoat, and whom do they light upon? With unfailing consistency and unerring accuracy, all fingers point to—the vice president of marketing. It is marketing's fault! Salesforce outmarketed RightNow, LinkedIn outmarketed Plaxo, Akamai outmarketed Internap, Rackspace outmarketed Terremark.

Positioning is the single largest influence on the buying decision.

Greet prees at market maketh deere ware,And to greet cheep is holde at litel prys.

The wrastling for this world axeth a fal.

bring in the big bucks or perish.

The mechanisms that have traditionally been suggested for understanding companies can be divided into three broad categories: transaction costs, organizational structure, and competition in the marketplace.

After growing rapidly in their youth, almost all companies with sales over about $10 million end up floating on top of the ripples of the stock market.

So why do almost all cities remain viable, whereas the vast majority of companies and organisms die?

Publicly traded companies die through acquisitions, mergers, and bankruptcies at the same rate regardless of how well established they are or what they actually do. The

He who is enamoured of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.

Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.