Competitor Quotes

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
Henry Ford

Time, Business, Making

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.
Steve Jobs

Music, Online, Piracy

Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.
Colin Powell

America, United, Pure

A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.
Nancy Lopez

I just always expect the best because I'm a competitor and if I'm competing, then obviously I'm trying to be better in everything.
Lil Wayne

Best, Everything, Trying

I mean, as an athlete, as a competitor, you have to have that belief in yourself.
Tiger Woods

Yourself, Mean, Belief

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

Wait, Until, Pioneering

I'm a competitor and a very proud man. If a guy beats me once, he'll have to do it again to make me believe him.
Sugar Ray Leonard

Him, Proud, Again

If you're not a competitor, you've just got to go home.
Venus Williams

There's no better friend to any merchant than a fair competitor.
James Cash Penney

Friend, Fair, Merchant

The most interesting information I can have about a competitor is the cost.
Carlos Ghosn

Oracle, for example, has even hired people to dumpster dive for information about its competitor, Microsoft. It's not even illegal, because trash isn't covered by data secrecy laws.
Kevin Mitnick

Example, Laws, Trash

My only real advice to Oscar nominees is, 'If you haven't actually seen a competitor's film, don't fib and say you have and blow smoke up their wahooziewhatsits.' Always best to be frank and tell them the truth.
Vera Farmiga

Best, Truth, Real

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.
Paul Gauguin

Against, Relative, Strengths

If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good idea and a competitor can't copy it, then that competitor will have to think of their own way of doing it. So then, instead of just one innovator, you have two or three people trying to do something in a new way.
James Dyson

Good, Money, Someone

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

Made, Loved, Criticism

You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.
Jack Ma

Die, Learn, Copy

The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. He always wanted to close his own deal. He never talked to you because he was battling so hard. I sure as hell don't miss batting against him, but I miss him in the game.
Pete Rose

Greatest, Game, Hard

We had a couple of minor coups that made a big difference. We snared away from a competitor a correspondent already on the ground in Afghanistan. That was an enormous help to us, because there we were.
Brit Hume

Help, Made, Big

A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'.
Guy Kawasaki

Program, Crash, Dies

The only one I feel pressure from is myself to go and give my all for every match and, obviously, I'm a competitor.
Caroline Wozniacki

Give, Pressure, Match

I'm a competitor. I really enjoyed the race more than just going out and running to run.
Shannon Miller

Run, Race, Running

I don't know if I'd call myself a prodigy, but I was a big forensics competitor in high school, and then during college I spent some time working at speech and debate camps as a coach.
Josh Gad

Time, School, Working

I read the papers, I surf the Web. At the beginning of the year, I try to see at least two episodes of every show on our network. Am I surfing? All the time. I'm aware of the landscape. I'm a competitor, so I have to know whom I'm competing with.
Leslie Moonves

I think in just about any business the low cost competitor is always going to have an advantage.
Gerard Arpey

Business, Advantage, Cost

I always thought Ray Bourque was a great competitor.
Mats Sundin

Great, Thought, Ray

If they did it like they did it in '96 or whenever, just picking it from one meet, what if someone had the meet of their life but they're not usually a good competitor? That could be really bad for the team. So, I think this is the best way.
Carly Patterson

Life, Good, Best

I'm a competitor.
Donovan Bailey

Katarina Witt. She was the ultimate competitor. She would just stare down people before competition. She was relentless on the ice.
Sarah Hughes

Down, Before, She

Politics gets me out of bed in the morning It's what really interests me. I'm a competitor, but I also feel like I'm contributing, whether it's working on health-care policy in the White House or out here in Chicago.
Stephanie Cutter

Politics, Morning, Working

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