“The status quo is not your friend; in a competitive, down economy, the absence of change means death. Those who coast with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In order to become a grandmaster class player whose understanding of chess is superior to the thousands of ordinary players, you have… — Alexander Kotov Copy Share Image
By overhauling current rules and speeding the entry of competitors in the market, we encourage competition and provide our constituents with new… — Melissa Bean Copy Share Image
The beauty of this country and what people participate in is the competitive nature that we allow to exist and the fact… — Lee Scott Copy Share Image
Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
I'm thrilled the president [Barack Obama] has endorsed me. We started off as fierce competitors, and we've ended up as true friends… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I… — S. Robson Walton Copy Share Image
Social networks are like grease - in some cases, gasoline - for our personal business networking machines. If you aren't plugged in,… — danah boyd Copy Share Image
I do remember when I first went into politics, one of my competitors asked me, 'Well, Jenny Shipley, who's looking after your… — Jenny Shipley Copy Share Image
I'm a competitor. No matter what I'm doing, whether I'm golfing, whether I'm playing indoor soccer with my fiancé - he's not… — Carli Lloyd Copy Share Image
IBM uses what I like to call the 'hole-in-the-ground technique' to destroy the competition… IBM digs a big HOLE in the ground… — John C. Dvorak Copy Share Image
For the most part, the best opportunities now lie where your competitors have yet to establish themselves, not where they're already entrenched.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Make a list of competitors who will be disrupted by you. You do have competitors, right? You are better, right? If not,… — Robert Scoble Copy Share Image
“The first—imitation—merely does enough to keep your competitors in check. It does not create space in the marketplace; all it does is… — Scott McKain Copy Share Image
Whatever you and your team decide your new brand will stand for, deliver on that promise. That's the only way you'll ever… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
For ten centuries Christianity, armed with the omnipotence of the Church and State and opposed by no competition, was able to deprave,… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
I concluded that I'm a competitor. And, whatever happens, you keep leading. You can't fear anybody. Why? Because at the end of… — Masai Ujiri Copy Share Image
IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors… — Samuel J. Palmisano Copy Share Image
An organization's strategy is simply its plan for success. It's nothing more than the collection of intentional decisions a company makes to… — Patrick Lencioni Copy Share Image
NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Championships, I get it, it's very, very important. But I also know that my competitors will probably say that I'm one of… — Denny Hamlin Copy Share Image
“Before you were born, and were still too tiny for the human eye to see, you won the race for life from… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Nuclear power has died of an incurable attack of market forces and is way beyond any hope of revival, because the competitors… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
Britain is one of the world's most open economies. More dependent on trade than any other major country. Our success depends on… — Philip Hammond Copy Share Image
I'm the competitor, I'm the one who has to wear the brunt of that being a good or bad score. And I'm… — Kelly Slater Copy Share Image
I don't know that I came across as being real competitive on 'The Bachelor,' although maybe I did a little bit on… — Jake Pavelka Copy Share Image
Some people are saying it's a slap in the face for me to go to a competitor, but it also was a… — Albert Belle Copy Share Image
All the corporate welfare, yeah, it goes from cash payments to debt, to regulations on the competitors, to restrictions on trade, to… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
I love how snowboarding is like no other sport out there - I mean, some of my best friends are my biggest… — Gretchen Bleiler Copy Share Image
No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never… — Abigail Johnson Copy Share Image
Customers are willing to try new things, and if you can survive, you will have fewer competitors. It's like entering the eye… — Brian Chesky Copy Share Image
I am so happy and proud to learn of Hideo Nomo's election to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. He was quite… — Tommy Lasorda Copy Share Image
One of the things I benefited from when I started this business was that I didn't know anything. I was just instinct… — Michael Dell Copy Share Image
Microsoft does not dominate the software industry by any stretch of the imagination. We have lots of very able competitors who keep… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Ideas are the engines of progress. They improve people's lives by creating better ways to do things. They build and grow successful… — Alan Robinson Copy Share Image
I’m proud to be Japanese and I wanted my country to succeed. I believed my system was a way that could help… — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
Today is a time of turbulence and stagnation, of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic, omnivorous videocassette recorder (VCR). In… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
I learn from all our major competitors, whether they're in or out of the U.S. Wells Fargo is very actively, very aggressively,… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
God was pitched out of forced schooling on his ear after WWII. This wasn't because of any constitutional proscription-there was none that… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
In order to become a success, a business doesn't just have to do well, it has to to better than its competitors.… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image