#competitor

The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. He always wanted to close his own deal. He never talked to you because he was battling so hard. I sure as hell don't miss batting against him, but I miss him in the game. ↗

— Pete Rose

#always #batting #battling #because #bob

Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#coffee #competitors #countries #developing #effort

The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared. ↗

— Frank Shorter

#blow #competitors #debt #energy #had

You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die. ↗

— Jack Ma

#copy #die #learn #never #should

Politics gets me out of bed in the morning It's what really interests me. I'm a competitor, but I also feel like I'm contributing, whether it's working on health-care policy in the White House or out here in Chicago. ↗

— Stephanie Cutter

#bed #chicago #competitor #contributing #feel

I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her colonial trade against foreign competitors. ↗

— King George V

#against #among #brethren #colonial #competitors

There are over 2,000 direct clones of the Groupon business model. However, there's an equal amount of proof that the barriers to success are enormous. In spite of all those competitors, only a handful are remotely relevant. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#barriers #business #business model #clones #competitors

I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors. ↗

— Aristotle Onassis

#friends #i #only

The thing that people seem to miss about not just Google, but also our competitors, Yahoo, eBay and so forth, is that there's an awful lot of communities that have never been served by traditional media. ↗

— Eric Schmidt

#also #awful #been #communities #competitors

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

— Lee Kuan Yew

#competitors #deprive #out #outsourcing #putting