Maybe the discipline in North America is just consolidation, right? I mean, it may be that if there were more vigorous pursuit of antitrust in America, there would have more competitors competing on price, and then airlines wouldn't be making any money again.
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.
Yoga is all about what you do, actually do, for yourself. Every competitor that is there is there for themselves.
For the most part, the best opportunities now lie where your competitors have yet to establish themselves, not where they're already entrenched. Microsoft is struggling to adapt to that new reality.
I don't have to be enemies with someone to be competitors with them.
Are our competitors - for example, China, which is a deeply authoritarian nation - becoming more authoritarian or more liberal over time?
One of the things I benefited from when I started this business was that I didn't know anything. I was just instinct with no preconceived notions. This enabled me to learn and change quickly without having to worry about maintaining any kind of status quo, like some of my bigger competitors.
Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped.
My main competitor is myself.
Environmentally, business in America in 1970 was very similar to business in China today. Even if a CEO wanted to be a responsible corporate citizen, he (and they were all "he's" then) simply couldn't invest a billion dollars in pollution controls to produce a product that was indistinguishable from those of his competitors. His products would be priced out of the market. Passing laws that created a clean, level playing field for whole industries had to be a core focus of the 1970s.
You'll learn more in a day talking to customers than a week of brainstorming, a month of watching competitors, or a year of market research.
As a competitor, you have to learn pretty quickly how to deal with pressure.
Fannie and Freddie are creations of government. They were given a huge leg up over their competitors.
America can no longer afford to get the Nobel Prizes while our competitors get the profits.
Every company should work hard to obsolete its own product line - before its competitors do.
After all, if you have the majority of customers, then what you do becomes the standard. Your competitors have little choice but to follow. If you are the leader, then having a nonstandard infrastructure is a bad idea. Ultimately, it leads to extinction.
It's easier for me to go to Russia and train with top coaches and choreographers there than go to Colorado Springs and train with 14 of my competitors.
Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
I'd never buy something, even if it's a great brand, that is a competitor to something I already own; that's insane.
I don't think that we're necessarily going to see the U. S. and Russia becoming out and out military competitors against each other.