Quotes about Competition

[On Hollywood:] There are millions to be grabbed out here, and your only competition is idiots. Don't let this get around.

If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.

Many run primarily for the exercise, but others run to condition themselves for well-publicized races of various distances.

For online universities, like Liverpool and the University of Phoenix, if prices drop by 60%, they still make money. But for the vast majority of traditional universities, if the prices fall by 10%, they are bankrupt; they have no wriggle room.

The modern athlete is an individual corporation. I'm not quite sure it's very good for sport, or good for team work, or those different things that sport says it's about. This is about business.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

Never try to be better than somebody else. But most importantly, never cease trying to be the best you can be.

There is only one person with whom to compete and that is yourself. Keep aiming to surpass your own best performance and ever strive to reach higher levels.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory, ' I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

Business is much less transparent than a win in a Grand Prix; in a race you drive over the finishing line first and you have won. In business it is different.

There will be two types of businesses in the next 5 years, those that are on the Internet, and those that are out of business

Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.