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“Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.”

Business Weakness Relative Competitors

Author:Paul Gauguin

“When the business man who fights to secure special privileges, to crowd his competitor off the track by other than fair competitive methods, receives the same summary disdainful ostracism by his fellows that the doctor or lawyer who is 'unprofessional,' the athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.”

Source: The History of the Standard Oil Company

“There is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair. Yet Mr. Rockefeller has systematically played with loaded dice, and it is doubtful if there has ever been a time since 1872 when he has run a race with a competitor and started fair.”

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Author:Ida Tarbell

“In the future, it will become increasingly obvious that your competitors are just as clueless as you are.”

Business Obvious Competitors Clueless

Author:Scott Adams

“Competition is. In every business, no matter how small or how large, someone is just around the corner forever trying to steal your ideas and build his success out of your imagination, struggling after that which you have toiled endless years to secure, striving to outdo you in each and every way. If such a competitor would work as hard to originate as he does to copy, he would much more quickly gain success.”

“If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.”

Ifs Inspiring Business Competitors Outsourcing

Author:Lee Kuan Yew

“Smart recessionary marketing means not waiting for business to return to normal. Instead, you should cash in on this invaluable opportunity your more cautious competitors may be creating for you. If they pull back, your media investment works much harder.”

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Author:Sarah Carter