Quotes About Competition

I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.

I'm a big sports guy - golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding - and I love games.

It's better to have people be happy using someone else's product than disgruntled using yours.

Companies that live in such a zero-sum world don't "earn market share" from a competitor, they "conquer the market." They don't just serve their customers, they "capture" them. They "target" customers, employ a sales "force," hire "headhunters" to find new talent, pick their "battles," and make a "killing.

business battles serve as financial-page porn.

Pour yourself into your product and everything around your product too: how you sell it, how you support it, how you explain it, and how you deliver it. Competitors can never copy the you in your product.

Si lo que quieres es lanzar el «nuevo iPod» o el «sustituto de Pokemon», entonces estás muerto. Estás dejando que sea tu competencia quien determine los parámetros. No serás nunca más Apple que Apple. Ellos definen las reglas del juego. No podrás nunca ganar al que pone las reglas. Tienes que redefinir el juego, y no limitarte a hacer algo un poquito mejor.

Si lo que haces es ser como todos los demás, para qué te has metido en esto? Si te limitas a imitar a tus competidores, tu existencia no tiene sentido. Incluso si al final acabas perdiendo, es mejor caer luchando por lo que crees que limitarse a copiar a los demás.

Instead of trying to outspend, outsell, or outsponsor competitors, try to out-teach them. Teaching probably isn't something your competitors are even thinking about. Most businesses focus on selling or servicing, but teaching never even occurs to them.

If you think a competitor sucks, say so. When you do that, you'll find that others who agree with you will rally to your side.

Audi takes on Lexus's automatic parking systems with ads that say Audi drivers know how to park their own cars.

Defensive companies can't think ahead; they can only think behind. They don't lead; they follow.

If you're successful, people will try to copy what you do. It's just a fact of life. But there's a great way to protect yourself from copycats: Make you part of your product or service. Inject what's unique about the way you think into what you sell. Decommoditize your product. Make it something no one else can offer.

If you think a competitor sucks, say so. When you do that, you'll find that others who agree with you will rally to your side. Being the anti-______ is a great way to differentiate yourself and attract followers.

In the end, it's not worth paying much attention to the competition anyway. Why not? Because worrying about the competition quickly turns into an obsession.

Métete en tu producto y en todo lo que le rodea: en cómo se vende, cómo lo apoyas, como lo argumentas y cómo lo comercializas. Tus competidores nunca podrán tener ese tú en su producto.

Tener un contrincante te proporciona también una fantástica historia para contar a tus clientes. Tener una opinión marcada te hace destacar. La gente se anima cuando hay pelea. Toman partido. Los ánimos se encienden. Y esa es una forma estupenda de hacerse ver.

Do less than your competitors to beat them. Solve the simple problems and leave the hairy, difficult, nasty problems to the competition. Instead of one-upping, try one-downing. Instead of outdoing, try underdoing.

everybody knew the only thing that made Goss more miserable than pilots was pilots having fun.

Winning depends on where you put your priorities. It's usually best to put them over the fence.

Today, every business, including yours, is being observed and studied by others who want your revenues.

Lantech's reinvention intervention answers one of the most fundamental questions about embracing change: Whose idea wins? The answer, of course, is that the best idea should win—not the boss's idea, not the boss's kid's idea, not the strategy department's idea, not the old idea, not the competition's idea; only the best idea should win.

We had to figure out a way to come up with big innovations, embrace change, and invent new services and products that would differentiate us from our competition and would let us grow faster than our industry. We were waiting for big ideas instead of using a system to innovate.

Today, every business, including yours, is being observed and studied by others who want your revenues. The world operates with such speed that as soon as potential competitors sniff out the fact that another business is doing well and they believe there's a buck to be made they'll be all over it like a cheap suit