Quotes About Competition

What a business does (the way it competes and where it chooses to do so) usually is easily imitated. It is more difficult to respond to what a business is, since that involves acquiring or neutralizing specialized assets or skills. Anyone can decide to distribute cereal or detergent through supermarkets, but few have the clout to do it as effectively as, say, General Mills.

Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out.

It's a mass agitation of ambitious cocks!

in January 2003, Barack Obama was just a small speedboat trying to launch before some battleship came along and capsized his ambitions.

Life is a competition... Not with others, but with ourselves. We should seek each day to live stronger, better, truer lives. Each to master some weakness of yesterday. Each day to repair a mistake; Each day to surpass ourselves.

The fact is, none of us really has a choice: We are all playing the money game whether we want to or not. The only question is: Are we winning?

Strictly Come Dancing

Life was not fair. If you wanted something you had to take it. Before someone else took it from you. Neatly dissected down to its essence, life was one long series of lily pad hoppings. The quick and the resourceful were able to adapt and survive; all others were simply crushed as a more nimble creature landed on the lily pad they had occupied for too long.

Pender laughed. "Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It's all about the speed. Who gets there first defines the truth. You know that as well as any man living.

As a footballer you always want to test yourself against the best.

Squeak sq-squeak sq-squeak: fifty tennis shoes jumping and skipping against the waxed wood floor. Dodgeball. Perfect. It smells like the armpits of Satan in here.

If you destroy a free market, you create a black market.

A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.

It's very difficult in the technology space when you have been leapfrogged to prosper again.

And Adam ruled, for he was the King. Until the day his will to be King deserted him. Then he died, food for a stronger. And the strongest was always the King, not by strength alone, but King by cunning and luck and strength together. Among the rats.

If anyone is getting too close to your business to wreak havoc knowingly or not just become the villian while having them believe that they are the hero, by doing this they will do the bulk of the work for you while steering clear of your forward progress in the area of business you are working on

Its always after the fact with anything when people want to invest and is those who can see who always beats them to it

PBR Bulls are the talent, the cowboys are the props and both are tasked with putting on a great show for the audience

A Savvy Turtle will always win any Rabbit race

Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.

Most academic battles involve space or faculty appointments and promotions.

I always plan for longterm, life to me is a never ending chess match

Markets always place the greatest pressures on the weakest holders.

As Tilly suggests, the important issue was "effectiveness (total output)," not "efficiency (the ratio of output to input)." In an increasingly violent world, the systems that predominated through five centuries of competition were necessarily those that facilitated the greatest access to resources needed to make war on a large scale.