Todor Zhivkov Quotes

Sometimes, for businesses, competition can be inconvenient, because competition means that the race is never over, the game is never won. No matter how well you were doing in the past, there's always someone who are out there wanting to take your place. So the temptation to avoid competition is powerful. It's rooted in motives as old as Adam and Eve: in greed for yet more money, in fear of losing your position in the market and all the benefits it brings.

Today, the competition is considerably more intense.

There is a healthy competition as there would be in any business. But we do not spend our days thinking about what Marvel is doing.

As a multisport athlete, I was always fascinated with competition and how to win. At HBS and later at the Harvard Department of Economics, I was drawn to the field of competition and strategy because it tackles perhaps the most basic question in both business management and industrial economics: What determines corporate performance?

The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.

It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

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

Modern competition is often described as a fight of all against all.

There is no resting place for an enterprise in a competitive economy.

He who puts ... a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest.

We’re far behind [Microsoft]. They are 3 time bigger than we are. They have a monopoly and we don’t—darnit!

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 are just not in your favor.

The biggest challenge to thriving in the marketplace is identifying the strategic moves that will keep us ahead of the competition.

There's always competitors out there, one way or another.

The NXT environment is so competitive.

Here's a good rule of thumb: don't worry about a competitor at all, until they're actually beating you with a real shipped product.

In Hong Kong, the property business has always been very competitive, so we have to think of ways to get an edge over our competitors.

The PC is successful because we're all benefiting from the competition with each other. If Twitter comes along, our games benefit. If Nvidia makes better graphics technology, all the games are going to shine. If we come out with a better game, people are going to buy more PCs.

In general, you don't want competitors to understand your business outside of telling people your revenue and profitability numbers.

In the long run all producers are forced to use the most efficient methods or give place to others who do.

A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business interests. Then once they hold that office, they spend all their time in office paying back over and over again those campaign contributions through various favors and contracts and that sort of thing.