Quotes About Competition

The key to competitive success—for businesses and nonprofits alike—lies in an organization's ability to create unique value. Porter's prescription: aim to be unique, not best. Creating value, not beating rivals, is at the heart of competition.

As manufactured products have become increasingly commoditylike, and therefore less valuable to customers, GE has not been alone in discovering that often more money can be made from the services related to a product

In business, multiple winners can thrive and coexist. Competition focuses more on meeting customers needs than on demolishing rivals. Just look around. Because there are so many needs to serve, there are many ways to win.

Price competition, Porter warns, is the most damaging form of rivalry. The more rivalry is based on price, the more you are engaged in competing to be the best.

But in practice, very few markets are "perfect." Porter's five forces framework offers a way to think systematically about imperfect markets.

Industry structure can be linked directly to the income statements and balance sheets of every company in the industry. The insights gained from this kind of analysis should lead directly to decisions about where and how to compete.

Why is current industry profitability what it is? What's propping it up? What's changing? How is profitability likely to shift? What limiting factors must be overcome to capture more of the value you create?

Strategy," Porter writes, "can be viewed as building defenses against the competitive forces or finding a position in the industry where the forces are weakest.

At the same time, Italian sausage, breadsticks, antipasto, and spaghetti vied for air supremacy.

Wild birds will kill exotic ones: the budgies and the lovebirds and the yellow canaries-- escaped from their cages and hoping to get a taste of the sky -- usually end up back on the ground, plucked raw by their more conformist cousins

Weeds and wheat cannot grow peacefully together. Any gardener could tell you the same thing.

Weed and wheat cannot grow together in peace.

A job interview is a competition won by those who are qualified the most, and, those who are willing to be payed the least.

Being surrounded by successful people, doesn't mean you made it.

If law school is so hard to get through how come there are so many lawyers?

The simple idea that everyone needs a reasonable amount of challenging work in his or her life and also a personal life complete with noncompetitive leisure has never really taken hold.

Let's face it: in advertising, you are paid more, but you die younger. It's not very forgiving. Like sports stars, you're in it during your better years, and then you're out looking for work.

The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates.

With this film, 'Need For Speed, ' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.

The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your face, and everyone, even people who work for rival film companies, tells you they voted for you.

Winning isn't about overtaking your opponent's, it's more about you completing a journey.

Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.

Their delight seemeth not so much to be in the catch, nor in the chase, but in hoping to see me trip and hurt myself as I fall.

I'm a real bad bi.... Your man wanna see me and bi... you wanna be me.