Competition. The fifth in a series of collections of useable quotations to make you look really smart in your next presentation or report.
There is tendency among some businesses to criticize and belittle their competitors. This is a bad procedure. Praise them. Learn from them. There are times when you can co-operate with them to their advantage and to yours! Speak well of them and they will speak well of you. You can't destroy good ideas. Take advantage of them.
GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS
By competition the total amount of supply is increased, and by increase of the supply a competition in the sales ensues, and this enable the consumer to buy at lower rates. Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.
HENRY CLAY
A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Competition whose motive is merely to compete, to drive some other fellow out, never carries very far. The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die. But when a business ceases to be creative, when it believes it has reached perfection and needs to do nothing but produce-no improvement, no development-it is done.
HENRY FORD
Don't knock your competitors. By boosting others you will boost yourself. A little competition is a good thing and severe competition is a blessing. Thank God for competition.
JACOB KINDLEBERGER
In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running; if you stand still, they will swallow you.
SEMON KNUDSEN
Today's competitiveness, so much imposed from without, is exhausting, not exhilarating; is unending-a part of one's social life, one's solitude, one's sleep, one's sleeplessness.
LOUIS KRONENBERGER
Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.
C. WRIGHT MILLS
The worst thing you can wear is desperation. You can smell desperation walking in a room.
JERRY PARIS, DIRECTOR
I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, "Oh, well, there's another Saturday." The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.
KNUTE ROCKNE
Our partnership with associates is the reason our Company has been able to consistently outperform the competition-and even our own expectations.
SAM WALTON
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