James Spithill Quotes

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

Benchmark your performance against your best competitors. Think how you can beat them next time.

The whole idea is to get an edge. Sometimes it takes just a little extra something to get that edge, but you have to have it.

A company doesn't have to compete with Amazon. A company can instead innovate in sectors Amazon doesn't presently care about.

If you change the rules of the market, you can be more successful than your competitors.

If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

We've got a great value proposition against Chromebooks, we are not ceding the market to anyone.

You always have to put pressure on an opponent.

I try to exploit things against everybody; that's part of the game: beat the guy that guards me while you're beating their team.

For us to be successful, we have to kick our competitors' butt.

I just challenge the big guys and attack them, and use my quickness to my advantage.

You have to know your opponent and take him out of his game.

I don't want to put my game plan out there for everybody to see it and read it and teams can scheme. It just doesn't make a lot of sense.

Every time I go out there, I just try to find the weakness of my opponent and then use that to my advantage.

It may well be that creativity is the last unfair advantage we're legally allowed to take over our competitors.

Business is like tennis. Those who serve well win.

Strategy means making clear-cut choices about how to compete.

There's this big pie in show business, and you physically can't eat the whole pie. If you give everybody a slice of pie, you will still have more than enough. The real trick is not to try to get the whole pie, but to keep the biggest slice.

People working on bigger ideas on a more protracted timeline will be more on the stealth side. They aren’t releasing new PR announcements every day. The bigger the secret and the likelier it is that you alone have it, the more time you have to execute. There may be far more people going after hard secrets than we think.

Your margin is my opportunity.

If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does.

Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.

How do you compete against a true fanatic? You can only try to build the best possible moat and continuously attempt to widen it.

If competitors don't like our two to one advantage, dominating market share with both SP and DS, well, I've got bad news. Because we just made it two and a half to one.