Quotes About Competition

Later Bezos recalled speaking at an all-hands meeting called to address the assault by Barnes & Noble. "Look, you should wake up worried, terrified every morning," he told his employees. "But don't be worried about our competitors because they`re never going to send us any money anyway. Let's be worried about our customers and stay heads-down focused."15

Thus did Jeff Bezos become one of the original investors in Google, his company's future rival,

Bezos had ruthlessly engineered another acquisition by driving his target off a cliff. Says one observer who had a seat close to the battle, "They have an absolute willingness to torch the landscape around them to emerge the winner.

Unlike brick-and-mortar retailers, whose inventories were spread out across hundreds or thousands of stores around the country, Amazon had one website and, at that time, a single warehouse and inventory. Amazon's ratio of fixed costs to revenue was considerably more favorable than that of its offline competitors

When you are small, someone else that is bigger can always come along and take away what you have," Bezos told him. "We have to level the playing field in terms of purchasing power with the established booksellers.

There are two kinds of retailers: there are those folks who work to figure how to charge more, and there are companies that work to figure how to charge less, and we are going to be the second, full-stop,

the quicker the company grew, the more territory it could capture in what was becoming the race to establish new brands on the digital frontier.

Existem dois tipos de vendedores: os que trabalham para descobrir como cobrar mais e os que trabalham para descobrir como cobrar menos, e nós seremos o segundo, ponto final",

We have to level the playing field in terms of purchasing power with the established booksellers.

Bezos felt that hiring only the best and brightest was key to Amazon's success.

the folktale of the steel driver who raced to dig a hole in competition with a steam-powered drilling machine; he won the contest but died immediately afterward

it was never about the seventy-nine dollars. it was really about changing people's mentality so they wouldn't shop anywhere else

when given the choice of obsessing over competitors or obsessing over customers, we always obsess over customers

they have an absolute willingness to torch the landscape around them to emerge the winner

You've built this lovely castle, and now all the barbarians are going to come riding on horses to attack the castle," Bezos said, according to a former AWS exec who reports hearing the comment. "You need a moat; what is the moat around the castle?

shooting guards. Myron

when your opponent was at the net, it was often best to slam the ball right at their gut because he or she wouldn't know which way to move. You slow down their reaction time.

Get this, we played Condom Roulette like the old days. Ever play? Every guy guesses a color—there's Hot Red, Stallion Black, Lemon Yellow, Orange Orange. Okay, the last two are jokes, but you get the point. There's this condom dispenser in the bathroom. It's still there! So each guy puts a buck on the table. One guy gets a quarter and buys a condom. He brings it to the table. You open it and whammo, if it's your color, you win!

You think, what, this country is a meritocracy? That we all start in the same place, all have the same chances? That's crap. I played college football. I was a running back. Was pretty good too. One day I realize that every guy who is trying to tackle me is on steroids. And every guy who is trying to take my position? Steroids. So I have a choice. I can take steroids too. Or I can stop competing." "Chick?

Time passed, but neither one of them noticed. They talked, mostly about Chad and the kind of son he was. Jack had held on and still led by eight strokes. A gigantic lead. If he blew it this time, it would be worse than twenty-three years ago. The

By the third hole, Jack had already dropped three strokes off the lead. His complexion was cartoon Casper. His eyes were as vacant as the Bates Motel, his shoulders slumped like bags of wet peat moss.

When the putt dropped into the cup, there was no polite golf clap. The crowd erupted like Vesuvius in the last days.

The fathers in the corner had a group conniption: "Are you kidding me, ref?" "Bad call!" "You gotta be blind!" "That's BS!" "Call them both ways, ref!" The

The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks.