Quotes About Competition

Blue ocean shift is a systematic process to move your organization from cutthroat markets with bloody competition—what we think of as red oceans full of sharks—to wide-open blue oceans, or new markets devoid of competition, in a way that brings your people along.

Value innovation is the cornerstone of blue ocean strategy. We call it value innovation because instead of focusing on beating the competition, you focus on making the competition irrelevant by creating a leap in value for buyers and your company, thereby opening up new and uncontested market space.

Executives are paralyzed by the muddle. Few employees deep down in the company even know what the strategy is. And a closer look reveals that most plans don't contain a strategy at all but rather a smorgasbord of tactics that individually make sense but collectively don't add up to a unified, clear direction that sets a company apart—let alone makes the competition irrelevant. Does this sound like the strategic plans in your company?

Blue ocean strategy is not about being first to market. Rather it's about being first to get it right by linking innovation to value.

Value innovation is the cornerstone of blue ocean strategy

As companies compete to embrace customer preferences through finer segmentation, they often risk creating too-small target markets.

A bad system will beat a good person every time.

Loss of market, and resulting unemployment, are not foreordained. They are not inevitable. They are man-made.

In life the loser's score is always zero.

Always the following wind of history Of others' wisdom makes a buoyant air Till we come suddenly on pockets where Is nothing loud but us; where voices seem Abrupt, untrained, competing with no lie Our fathers shouted once.

Is it a reasonable thing, I ask you, for a grown man to run about and hit a ball? Poker's the only game fit for a grown man. Then, your hand is against every man's, and every man's is against yours. Teamwork? Who ever made a fortune by teamwork? There's only one way to make a fortune, and that's to down the fellow who's up against you.

Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance.

Playing against someone like Roger Federer is not easy. I had my chance today, but I guess I made a lot of errors. But I have no complaints.

I was always a believer in stamping on my opponent if I got him down, at Wimbledon or anywhere else. I never wanted to give him the chance to get up.

Whilst there's a competition still on we're still a chance.

If freedom were not so economically efficient it certainly wouldn't stand a chance.

I didn't want to be a headshot and get a chance to go compete to sing-that's not me.

In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated.

The only reason free markets have a ghost of a chance is that they are so much more efficient than any other form of organization.

As you get older, every chance to win a championship is more crucial, because you are going to have less and less of them.

My approach to the races hasn't changed in my 20-year career. If I have the chance to attack and to pass, I do it, trying to get the best possible result.

I have had to change the game to one that is a match of wits rather than brawn to give myself a fighting chance.

A chance, as a coach, to take a team to the World Cup finals is probably as high up the tree as it gets, certainly with one-day cricket.

Tennis is best of three sets, so even if I lose the first set, I still have a chance.