Eric Yuan Quotes

The car business is a lot like football. In football, you have to win once a week. In the car business, you have to win every day.

I don't really think anything Microsoft does puts pressure on Apple.

There are hundreds of competitors in the direct marketing of computers. We have been very successful because of quality, price, service and the way we treat the customer.

All things can be done by every company in the world. Apple builds a phone, and so does Samsung. It's not about being different but about being better at what you do.

I don't mind competition at all. I mean, the record business is the most competitive business in the world, probably. So I'm used to that. In a weird way, it kind of makes you work harder.

Brazil doesn't get a lot of gold medals, so whenever I get a chance, everybody expects me to win, and to get second is a big disappointment.

You're not going to please everyone, but then, it's not about pleasing people: it's about winning rugby games.

Any match you face, you know, you can be nervous.

You have to try and do everything to show your best qualities; otherwise, you will not be here anymore.

Villarreal is a difficult place to go, and if you want to win there, you have to play very hard and very well.

In an Ashes series you have to adapt quickly to the conditions and your rivals. If you don't, you get found out.

Mountain biking is such a very small community. I just want to put the hard work in so people don't think I'm a slacker. I want the hardcore mountain bikers to respect, 'Okay, well, he did it the right way.'

It's always good to have great players around you. You have to battle for your place, and it makes you more hungry on the training pitch, and you know, when you get your chance, you have to take it.

Business can be hard. But we need more of it.

There is a lot of pressure because of what my father achieved and everyone is expecting so much, but that gives me that extra drive in the gym every day to graft hard.

It's down to me to be fit and in form. You're not guaranteed a place just because you cost a certain amount of money.

I know that nobody will be satisfied with anything less than coming home with the World Cup.

Winning is very addictive, that's why it's very hard when suddenly - boom - you are not the favorites any more.

The tennis challenger starts strong but soon loses confidence in his playing. The champion racks up the games. But in the final set, when the challenger has nothing left to lose, he becomes relaxed again, insouciant, daring. Suddenly he's playing like the devil and the champion must work hard to get those last points.

American business can out-think, out-work, out-perform any nation in the world. But we can't beat the competition if we don't get in the ball game.

To slacken the tempo...would mean falling behind. And those who fall behind get beaten.

I like added pressure. It makes me work harder.

That a joint stock company should be able to carry on successfully any branch of foreign trade, when private adventurers can come into any sort of open and fair competition with them, seems contrary to all experience.

I train harder than anyone else in the world. Last year I was supposed to take a month off and I took three days off because I was afraid somebody out there was training harder. That's the feeling I go through every day - Am I not doing what somebody else is doing? Is someone out there training harder than I am? I can't live with myself if someone is.

In a commodity business, it's very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.