Compete
Definition: Competes: third person present. Strive to gain or win something by defeating or establishing superiority over others.
Number of Quotes: 37
I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas... cultures... and systems of
thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word freedom
means than I see much evidence of in America.
Douglas Adams
This is not an age of castles, moats, and armor where people can sustain a competitive advantage for very long.
Richard D'Aveni
The largest profits go to those businesses which most devotedly follow a policy of insisting
on a competitive advantage, no matter how small, for every product or service they market.
R. H. Beeby
Copying other organizations' activities sounds like industrial espionage to
some people, but the truth is that benchmarking is perfectly legal and ethical.
Warren Bennis
Managerial intellect wilted in competition with managerial adrenaline. The thrill of the chase blinded pursuers to the consequences of the chase.
Warren Buffett
There are two ways to compete - in stable conditions, you plan and you compete on scale. In unstable times, you live by your wits.
Dick Cavanagh
'Tis better to have fought and lost,
Than never to have fought at all.
Arthur Hugh Clough
Though shalt not covet; but tradition
Approves all forms of competition.
Arthur Hugh Clough
The important thing in life is not the victory but the contest; the essential thing is not to have won, but to have fought well.
Pierre de Coubertin
Just as location, location, location
defines value in real estate, in business today it's connectivity that equals competitiveness.
Mary J. Cronin
You can't win without being completely different. When everyone else says we are crazy, I say, gee we really must be on to something.
Larry Ellison
To win against opponents, companies need strategies for three related tasks: outwitting, outmaneuvering, and outperforming competitors.
Liam Fahey
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner
He that falls in love with himself, will have no rivals.
Benjamin Franklin
It's the classic case of being at the party too early. Nobody was there yet
and nobody had had a drink. By the time we got there, the party was raging.
Mark Getty
The new environment dictates two rules; first everything happens faster; second,
anything that can be done will be done, if not by you, then by someone else, somewhere.
Andrew Grove
Never corner an opponent, and always assist him to save his face ... Avoid self-righteousness like the devil - there is nothing so self-blinding.
B. H. Liddell Hart
The Japanese are masters at making you peel the onion. You get through one layer and you are looking at another one just like it.
Lee Iacocca
To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
I feel sorry for those who live without competition ... fat, dumb, and unhappy in cradle-to-grave security.
Donald Kendall
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy
What do you do when your competitor's drowning? Get a live hose and stick it in his mouth.
Ray Kroc
Observing your own and your competitor's successes and failures makes your inner business voice more sure and vivid.
Estée Lauder
I grew up with a lot of brothers and sisters. I did all I could do to really stand out and that nurtured a lot of confidence and drive and ambition.
Madonna
It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory.
George Marshall
Never wrestle with a pig. You get dirty and only the pig enjoys himself.
Mark McCormack
I treat everything as a learning experience; then you become detached from the result and more interested in the experience itself.
Lorraine Moller
The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.
Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.
Dwight Morrow
Monopoly is a terrible thing, till you have it.
Rupert Murdoch
We're not going global because we want to or because of any megalomania, but because it's really necessary.
Rupert Murdoch
We strive to be Number One ... But win or lose, it is the competition which gives us pleasure.
Joe Paterno
Stop competing on price; compete on value. Deliver total consumer solutions, rather than just your piece of the solution.
Faith Popcorn
Competitive strategy is about being different. It means deliberately choosing a different set of activities to deliver a unique mix of values.
Michael Porter
Wages should be left to the fair and free competition of the market, and should never be controlled by the interference of the legislature.
David Ricardo
When the sea was calm, all boats alike
Show'd mastership in floating.
Coriolanus
William Shakespeare
The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Lily Tomlin
There is no such thing as a man being too proud to fight.
Woodrow Wilson
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