Core competence, as it is used by many managers, is a…

“Core competence, as it is used by many managers, is a dangerously inward-looking notion. Competitiveness is far more about doing what customers value than…

— Clayton M. Christensen

The notion of the competitiveness of countries, on the model of the competitiveness of companies, is nonsense.

— Martin Wolf

“Fewer than one in twenty security professionals has the core competence and the foundation knowledge to take a system all the way from a…

— Stephen Northcutt

“Every organisation, not just business, needs 1 core competence: Tactical execution”

— Tony Dovale

An important re-engineering principle is that companies should focus on their core competence and outsource everything else.

— Bill Gates

the crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock.

— Margaret Halsey

Stop costly new regulations that would increase unemployment, raise consumer prices, and weaken the nation's global competitiveness with virtually no impact on global temperatures.

— Newt Gingrich

Today's competitiveness, so much imposed from without, is exhausting, not exhilarating; is unending-a part of one's social life, one's solitude, one's sleep, one's sleeplessness.

— Louis Kronenberger

You don't want to put competitiveness and emotion away, so you learn to play with it. You learn to use it for your team.

— Grayson Allen

It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science,…

— Safra A. Catz

A state-based regulatory system is quite burdensome. It allows price controls to create market distortions. It can hinder development of national products and can…

— Henry Paulson

The challenge always is can we sustain a high level of competitiveness?

— Billy Donovan

I think competitiveness is taken in a different way by different people. I'm not a yeller and a screamer, a jumper and a pusher.

— Tim Duncan

If you put on your business hat, you can't maintain competitiveness by staying at a competitive disadvantage. I mean, you just can't. The odds…

— Heather Bresch

There are many examples of companies and countries that have improved their competitiveness and efficiency by adopting open source strategies. The creation of skills…

— Mark Shuttleworth