#competitor

Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But again, those advantages won't mean much if we don't do a great job with the basics of our business. ↗

— Gerard Arpey

#again #amenities #basics #business #cannot

If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#being #competitor #doing #more #pioneering

Now here I am almost 52 years old, it's really easy. I'm way more at peace. But when you're a competitor, and you're as intent on becoming the best in the world as I was, it comes with consequences. ↗

— Kirk Gibson

#am #becoming #best #comes #competitor

So as an amateur Olympic competitor I loved criticism, because it made me better. But now as a professional I don't really know how to channel it or where to take it, so I don't take it quite as well. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

#because #better #channel #competitor #criticism

I haven't played a chess match for several decades. At one point I lost most of my chess games. Then I realized many of my competitors were memorizing the best moves and I was unwilling to do this. ↗

— John Harsanyi

#chess #competitors #decades #games #haven

Businesses who are members of Businesses for Social Responsibility or the Social Venture Network are internalizing costs on a voluntary basis and therefore raising their costs of doing business, but their competitors are not required to. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#business #businesses #competitors #costs #doing

None of our competitors have ever made two systems that run the same software. ↗

— Trip Hawkins

#ever #made #none #our #run

Now if you go exactly where your competitors are, you're dead. ↗

— Thorstein Heins

#dead #exactly #go #now #where

For example, a breakthrough in better batteries could supplant hydrogen. Better solar cells could replace or win out in this race to the fuel of the future. Those, I see, as the three big competitors: hydrogen, solar cells and then better batteries. ↗

— Bob Inglis

#better #big #breakthrough #cells #competitors

The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency. ↗

— Bobby Ray Inman

#assuming #bush #central #chief #competitor