Competitors Quotes

“If you want to succeed and leave your competitors behind, you need great plans and even greater strategies.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“Always treat your competitors smarter than you are.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“Dating is a big battlefield and proper planning becomes important to survive.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“Strategy is your war plan. If you go to a war without your strategy, you might not be able to defeat the enemy.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“If you want to emerge as a market leader in your industry, you should start preparing early. The sooner you decide to start, the bigger advantage you will gain over your competitors.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“With proper strategy, if you enter a war, you can defeat even the biggest army otherwise you can be defeated by even the smallest army.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“Competition is enjoyable only when it is a means to perfect one’s skills; when it becomes an end in itself, it ceases to be fun.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“The roots of the word “compete” are the Latin con petire, which meant “to seek together.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“Before you were born, and were still too tiny for the human eye to see, you won the race for life from among 250 million competitors. And yet, how fast you have forgotten your strength, when your very existence is proof of your greatness.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“When we play it safe, we sabotage our chance to make our mark in a memorable, authentic way. Health care organizations confront pressures to provide more responsive, personal care with cost efficiency, striving to provide the industry’s “patient-centered care” goal. However, when every hospital system and specialty clinic cautiously claims to provide “patient-centered care”— because all of their competitors claim to provide “patient-centered care”—their claim becomes so safe that they disappear into the din of their competitors’ identical claims.”
― Marian Deegan, Relevance: Matter More

“According to Teleology, each organism is like a rifle bullet fired straight at a mark; according to Darwin, organisms are like grapeshot of which one hits something and the rest fall wide.

For the teleologist an organism exists because it was made for the conditions in which it is found; for the Darwinian an organism exists because, out of many of its kind, it is the only one which has been able to persist in the conditions in which it is found.

Teleology implies that the organs of every organism are perfect and cannot be improved; the Darwinian theory simply affirms that they work well enough to enable the organism to hold its own against such competitors as it has met with, but admits the possibility of indefinite improvement.”
― Thomas Henry Huxley, Criticism on "The Origin of Species"

“Hug your customers but also offer handshake to your competitors.”
― Amit Kalantri

“When you stop worrying about your shortcomings, you deny your enemies, rivals, and/or competitors lethal weapons they may use to attack and defeat you.”
― Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership

“Today's opponents can be your allies tomorrow. And today's allies can be tomorrow's opponents.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“The number one thing to steal from your competitors: Wisdom.”
― Seth Godin

“In business, the size of our success is partly attributable to the fear of failure that has prevented some people from being our competitors.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Scout out competitors’ websites. Everything your competitors think is important or relevant usually exists on their website.”
― John Manning, The Disciplined Leader: Keeping the Focus on What Really Matters

“The smart business person sees an opportunity to generate referrals by collaborating with their competitors.”
― Timothy M. Houston, Leads To Referrals

“I usually hear people say be in competition with others but yourself. I say, stay competitive as your competitors will bring competition to you regardless.”
― Oscar Bimpong

“You can be better or even the best and still not be good.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Our weakness is our opponent’s strength.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Married couples are not competitors against each other but team mates defending and supporting each other to combat any adversity against their union.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“Your brand must differentiate you from what your competitors are offering. Until then you do not stand the chance of competing effectively.”
― Victor Kwegyir, Opportunities in the New Economy and Beyond: Birthing Entrepreneurs in a Pandemic Economy to Create Successful Businesses and New Wealth

“By offering cheaper prices online, the retailer educated me to never purchase in their physical store. By offering unconditional returns, they taught me to return poor products. By blocking my ability to return poor products because I made too many returns, they conditioned me to always shop at their competitors.”
― Steven Magee

“...this evolution is not a competition between ideas, but between humans and systems based on such ideas. An idea does not survive because it is better than the competitor, but rather because the person who holds it has survived!”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

“It is to our advantage to hate our opponent, but to our disadvantage to underestimate our opponent.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“7. Thou must share ideas - and spread the word
The bookshop that offers a box at the till with a sign saying "Free books! Help yourself" will always win favour over its competitors.
In my research for The Art of Coorie it became clear that the giving and swapping of goods and labour in creative industries functions as a crucial currency.
There is an understandable desire to want to keep nice things to ourselves.
But isn't there also a responsibility to share what we find?
Social media fosters a need to tell the world what we are doing at all times, especially if it supports the notion that what we are doing is exciting.”
― Gabriella Bennett, The Art of Coorie: How to Live Happy the Scottish Way

“Memo from the CEO As the forces operating in today’s marketplace become more shadowy and incomprehensible we must recommit ourselves every second of every day to a ceaseless striving for that elusive dream which we all share and which none of us can remember, if it ever existed in the first place. And if anyone thinks that, as all the world races toward the same elusive dream, our competition isn’t fully prepared to gnaw off its own genitals to get to the promised land before us and keep it for themselves … think again.”
― Thomas Ligotti, My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror