Robby Gordon Quotes

You want to put yourself in the best position to try and win.

Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.

You always want to give yourself an edge, want to help your team win. That's pretty much going to preparation.

The objective is to be competitive from March onwards.

Just like football, business is a game of inches, where the smallest advancement or advantage can mean the difference between winning and losing.

If you want to win games in this league, you have to be efficient.

For me, I just try to figure out ways I can affect winning.

I think that business book reporting, it's all Jim Collins, it's the story of victory; it's success bias over and over again.

We're trying to put ourselves in the best position to win, period, if not this year, next year.

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?

Competitive strategies is a concept or philosophy that's as American as apple pie.

The values we developed were instrumental in gaining a competitive advantage.

No matter what, the entrepreneur must strive to be above average and, at the same time, understand what is driving those averages they are seeking to beat. Take the time to understand and test the metrics you are using, and then you can not only set the average, you can exceed it.

I have to put people in the right spot so that if they execute, we win.

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

Winning matches on any surface will definitely give you a much larger element of trust in what you're doing.

My managerial ambitions were the same as I had as a player: to become as good as possible and to join the big teams in the big leagues.

Our job is to find out what's the next thing that is going to be advantageous to us and contribute to winning.

Benchmarking is an ongoing exercise in any company that aspires for leadership.

I want to control everything that goes into winning or losing.

Understanding how to compete better has really made a difference.

If we're about winning world championships, we can't just have all of our focus be on the Olympics.

It only matters how many wins you get, and we've got to figure out how to continue to get those wins.

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

The No. 1 thing is you want to be able to win the game, and we're going to do whatever we have to do to win the game.