Quotes About Competition

The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore.

This rise of the new global mega-rich is happening as established institutions are falling. The fall runs the gamut from the music business and traditional media to the Detroit automakers who find themselves obsolete, outmaneuvered, and out-priced by entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, Mumbai, Shanghai, and even Siberia.

Silicon Valley's long-running track record of creating globally disruptive startups is the envy of the world.

Unfortunately, in the race to the most douchebaggery, Silicon Valley is fast in gaining on Hollywood. That race is neck and neck.

The future is going to happen in Toronto or Berlin or Bengaluru and not necessarily in the Valley.

I would say Silicon Valley and New York have inflated salaries.

It would be idiotic to position ourselves against Silicon Valley.

Without competition, Silicon Valley will stop taking risks and will stop innovating.

Silicon Valley is super competitive and super expensive for talent, for office space, for everything.

I've been in the position where Liverpool needed to win on the last day to reach the Champions League. In May 2000, we needed to beat Bradford, who were fighting to avoid relegation, at Valley Parade but lost an awful game 1-0.

The world's better off the more Silicon Valleys there are and the more scaled companies there are.

When you go through a tournament of seven games, there are peaks and valleys. You kind of ride the players that are hot.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

There's still a lot of athletes in the NBA, but shooters are very valuable. I take a lot of pride shooting, so I feel like it's going to be big for me.

I think competition can make people stronger at whatever it is they're competing on. If we're competing in some athletic event for competitive swimmers, really intensely competing, it's likely that both of us will become better, but it's also quite possible we'll lose sight of what's truly valuable.

War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely valuable.

The concept of national treatment is a core component of investment and trade agreements. It promotes valuable competition on a level playing field. Investment treaties should not turn this idea on its head, giving privileges to foreign companies that are not available to domestic companies.

Basketball is basketball, so from a strategic standpoint, having a players' perspective is valuable.

When I think of the most valuable coach, I definitely think of a coach like Geno Auriemma, and the things I learned from him that stick out in my mind are his passion for the game, competing at all the little things and doing it at a high level.

The effect of the foreign direct investment of Etihad in Jet Airways and the implied bilateral agreement of air services between India and the UAE has primarily damaged Air India, which is a government-owned airline with huge assets that are extremely valuable.

Competition is everywhere here. I think it's a valuable thing. I think it's a good thing.

It's all about competitiveness: are you making the products that people really do want and value, and are you making it more efficiently and using less resources and less time than the competition?

Sport has taught me never to be jealous of someone or insecure if somebody is doing well. It's taught me teamwork and the value of patience. Even If I lose, I know that I've actually not lost.

In 2003, the value of Airbus's orders was more than twice as much as Boeing's.