Quotes About Competition

Lo penoso del éxito es que siempre se le quita a otro. Sólo pueden gozar de él los inconscientes, las mentes obtusas que no entienden que entre los frustrados siempre hay seres superiores a ellos.

I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you're the fastest. So no one can say you're slow if you're fast and no one can say you're fast if you're slow.

I am here to remind the world that this game is about skills, heart, honor, joy, team spirit.

For me, going on after Delaney & Bonnie was really, really tough because I thought they were miles better than us. Their

Foster and Kaplan's somewhat paradoxical finding that as a group, the long-term survivors in the S&P 500 underperformed the average. It is the constant entry of newcomers that keeps the average up.

the pankration, a no-holds-barred martial art event akin to today's kickboxing or perhaps a combination of karate and judo, in which everything was allowed, except for biting, eye-gouging, and scratching

It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey.

The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.

No one ever promised that the fastest horse in the race was the easiest one to ride. on managing talented people

With food still scarce,there was no longer a right to exist. You needed to earn your spot. 

Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.

The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.

Part of the special challenge of being a startup is the near impossibility of having your idea, company, or product be noticed by anyone, let alone a competitor.

If a competitor can outexecute a startup once the idea is known, the startup is doomed anyway. The reason to build a new team to pursue an idea is that you believe you can accelerate through the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop faster than anyone else can.

Learning to see waste and then systematically eliminate it has allowed lean companies such as Toyota to dominate entire industries.

A head start is rarely large enough to matter, and time spent in stealth mode—away from customers—is unlikely to provide a head start. The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.

The Innovator's Dilemma and The Innovator's Solution

Part of the special challenge of being a startup is the near impossibility of having your idea, company, or product be noticed by anyone, let alone a competitor. In

As new mainstream customers are acquired and new markets are conquered, the product becomes part of the public face of the company, with important implications for PR, marketing, sales, and business development. In most cases, the product will attract competitors: copycats, fast followers, and imitators of all stripes.

Qué deberíamos producir y para quién?», «¿En qué mercados podríamos entrar y dominar?», «¿Cómo podríamos crear un valor duradero que no estuviera sujeto a la erosión por parte de la competencia?».[6]

Startups don't starve; they drown." There are always a zillion new ideas about how to make the product better floating around, but the hard truth is that most of those ideas make a difference only at the margins.

After all, it was survival of the fittest few.

Indeed, it seems the prescription for highest software productivity is almost a Zen paradox; if you want the most efficient production, you must give up trying to make programmers produce. Handle their subsistence, give them their heads, and forget about deadlines. To a conventional manager this sounds crazily indulgent and doomed — but it is exactly the recipe with which the open-source culture is now clobbering its competition.

1975. There was a new enthusiasm for jumping and we were all trying to outdo each other by jumping higher and higher. The problem was that ... the riders flew off in mid-air because