Quotes About Competition

Most Asian companies rely on their cost and speed advantages, and so have not developed strong marketing skills. Therefore, although in Asia foreign firms may be competing with similar products and targeting the same customer groups, their superior marketing approach can give them an enormous competitive edge when it comes to winning customers.

Because it gives us energy, Michael, that's the single best thing about the game. The better we play, the more energy we get. From now on, ask yourself, after every round, if you have more energy than before you began. 'Tis much more important than the score, Michael, much more important than the score.

One's a dog-eat-dog world, and the other one's just the opposite.

Sport is about acceleration, not top speed.

Even the simplest of God's animals argue and fret over position and authority… asserting, sometimes with force, just who deserves what. The difference is, of course, that the wars of the chickens won't ever break the world.

Actually, I'm really quite vain about the whole problem because I figure there is no competition - I am what I am, and either I am needed as that or I'm not suitable anyway.

I'm a competitive person and it is in my nature to try hard in every match I play. The only time I'm not competitive is when I'm playing against my mom.

I feel like I have as good a shot as anybody out there and I have gotten close in the past, so why not have the attitude that I can come out and play great tennis and maybe even win this tournament.

She refused to accept the simple truism that the better you were, the bigger threat you were to those at the top....

Money. The ultimate motivation. The ultimate way of keeping score.

Once people perceive that change is going to happen, the game often shifts from outright opposition to a competition to influence what sort of change will occur.

For certain people, you gotta remind them that you have a way better record collection than they do. And this tape I'm giving you now will show and prove it. (Not that it's a competition…but it always is.)

Party conferences can be such fun. They resemble a nest of cuckoos. Sit back and enjoy watching everyone trying to push the others out. The

Although external changes can be the problem, the greater threat to strategy often comes from within. A sound strategy is undermined by a misguided view of competition, by organizational failures, and, especially, by the desire to grow. Managers

Competitive forces = the underlying drivers of profitability P.25

High rivalry limits the profitability of an industry P.32

MOST COMPANIES OWE THEIR INITIAL success to a unique strategic position involving clear trade-offs. Activities once were aligned with that position.

The point of industry analysis is not to declare the industry attractive or unattractive but to understand the underpinnings of competition and the root causes of profitability. P.29

When providers have to compete on results, the problem of supply-driven demand, in which available capacity leads to care with questionable benefits, will largely disappear.

Strategy can be viewed as building defenses against the competitive forces or finding a position in the industry where the forces are weakest. P.35

The fundamental problem in the U.S. health care system is that the structure of health care delivery is broken. This is what all the data about rising costs and alarming quality are telling us. And the structure of health care delivery is broken because competition is broken. All of the well-intended reform movements have failed because they did not address the underlying nature of competition.

quality differentials have a tendency to erode as an industry matures

The only way to truly reform health care is to reform the nature of competition itself.

The way to transform health care is to realign competition with value for patients. Value in health care is the health outcome per dollar of cost expended. If all system participants have to compete on value, value will improve dramatically.