Quotes About Competition

Given the specialized niche and deal size, there is scant competition in this acquisition market, enabling Essilor to purchase companies on attractive terms (such as six to seven times cash flow). This ability to systematically improve the operations of acquired businesses is rare but can create significant value.

Sometimes it's a dog-eat-dog world and the rest of the time it's the other way around.

Sometimes it's a dog-eat-dog world and the rest of the time it's the other way around.

The bitch-goddess, Success, was trailed by thousands of gasping dogs with lolling tongues.

Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.

we are all inevitably someone's adversary.

man becomes a little cog in the machine, and, aware of this, his one preoccupation is to become a bigger cog. —Max Weber,

Aquí, ya ves, hay que correr todo lo posible para quedarte en el mismo sitio. Si quieres ir a algún sitio, debes correr al menos dos veces más rápido. Lewis Carroll, Alicia a través del espejo (monólogo de la reina roja)

Con el telón de fondo de las intensas presiones competitivas, el papel del directivo empezaba a verse cada vez más comprometido. Los sueldos que podían cobrar en las grandes compañías eran notables, pero también los riesgos de ser despedidos. Sus actuaciones se juzgaban de acuerdo con modelos cada vez más exigentes, pero desde luego el objetivo más importante era conseguir beneficios a corto plazo que atrajeran a nuevos inversores.

Premio Nobel de Economía de 2005, «por haber ampliado nuestros conocimientos sobre el conflicto y la cooperación a través de la gamificación analítica».

there was nothing unnatural or surprising in efforts to get the better of stronger opponents by catching them by surprise or tricking them in some way.

La estrategia sin táctica es el camino más lento hacia la victoria. La táctica sin estrategia es el ruido antes de la derrota. Sun Tzu

las políticas racionales podían imponerse a la guerra, pero siempre estaban compitiendo con las ciegas fuerzas naturales de la «violencia, el odio y la enemistad»,

Un famoso pasaje bíblico apunta que «la carrera no la gana el más ágil, ni la batalla el más fuerte».[3] El escritor americano Damon Runyon añadió: «Pero yo apostaría por ellos».

We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life. —J. Robert Oppenheimer

Here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast. —The Red Queen in Alice Through the Looking Glass

As we shall see, combining with others often constitutes the most astute strategic move; for the same reason, preventing opponents from doing the same can be as valuable.

Como demostraba la experiencia del Modelo T de Ford, incluso el más diestro fabricante de un producto con costes reducidos al mínimo podía verse superado y atrapado por un producto mejor.

Wilbur and Orville were rapacious misanthropes who were all too happy to stop progress in its tracks by stifling brilliant innovators, particularly Curtiss, all to stuff their pockets with more money than they could spend in ten lifetimes.

my hardest so you don't win all the time?" Then see how it goes. If it goes well, over time they will balance the enjoyment of winning—even unfairly—with the enjoyment of a challenging match—even if they lose. You may also need to spend some time directly on the child's feelings about competition. Children will signal that they need special attention to these feelings about winning, losing, and competition by being very upset

They can sell at that price—and go broke and you can, too! If you base your price on your competitor's price—and they are going broke—you will, too. Typically, someone among your competition is going broke and usually is cutting prices on the way out. Owen Young, who is credited with having built General Electric, once said, "It's not the crook we fear in modern business; rather it's the honest guy who doesn't know what he is doing.

Free culture depends upon vibrant competition. Yet the effect of the law today is to stifle just this kind of competition. The effect is to produce an over-regulated culture, just as the effect of too much control in the market is to produce an over-regulated-regulated market.

I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.