A lot of competitors of various Amazon businesses use AWS. We don’t view that as a problem. We very consciously want any company, competitor or not, to use our infrastructure to build their business.
President Obama said it best during his state of the Union Address this year when he declared: ‘I will go anywhere in the world to open new markets for American products. And I will not stand by when our competitors don’t play by the rules.’
The Internet will win because it is relentless. Like a cannibal, it even turns on it own. Though early portals like Prodigy and AOL once benefited from their first-mover status, competitors surpassed them as technology and consumer preferences changed.
Off the field, both India and Pakistan enjoy a healthy relationship, and that’s the way it should be – friends off the field and fierce competitors on it.
Fans saying a player is overpaid doesn’t bother a player. What bothers an injured player is watching your competitors grow.
Championships, I get it, it’s very, very important. But I also know that my competitors will probably say that I’m one of the toughest competitors and toughest guys to beat. That’s all I really care about, is having the respect of them.
As business models evolve, as the way you distribute content evolves, as the ability to do things online changes in terms of pricing or trial or sample, I think we’ve definitely always been out in front of the rest of our competitors.
Understanding the customer, feeling what they are feeling, seeing what competitors are doing, you end up having a richer sense of the marketplace.
I think that’s one of the best things about skateboarding. We’re all competitors out there, but no one dislikes each other.
Google’s competitors fail to demonstrate that Google’s actions stifle competition rather than reflect pro-consumer innovations.
I’ll say it this way: AMD is a company that generates very strong opinions. There are some people who really like us and are really rooting for us. And then there are some people who say we’ll never be able to compete against some of our bigger competitors.
It’s tough to tell a group of competitors that you’ll get it next season.
The U.N. is one of many competitors in a marketplace of global problem solving.
CNN and MSNBC, our primary competitors, are trying to figure out how to beat us. There are some good, smart people at those networks, and even occasionally a blind pig finds an acorn.
We need to play between the whistles. That’s what tough competitors do. They don’t run their mouth.
I know if you get mad, and in a world with all the competitors I’ve been around in my life, either from fighting or wrestling or other sports, you have to learn to breathe.
NBA players are intense competitors, and it is truly humbling to know that my peers see me as someone who exhibits sportsmanship and respect on the court.
Any other business, you want your competitors to go out of business. In sports, you just don’t want them to have as good a record as you do.
I looked at my competitors and I thought that, If they could do it, I could do it. And if, they are popular and doing well, I could compete with them.
There are hundreds of competitors in the direct marketing of computers. We have been very successful because of quality, price, service and the way we treat the customer.
The logic was, there weren’t too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing.
My father worked for Unilever, running a mass-spectrometry lab – mass spectrometry is a process for elucidating the chemical structures of molecules, which means that he presided over a legal form of corporate espionage, breaking down the component parts of competitors’ products in order to copy them.
I wouldn’t single out Facebook as a concern, because we’ve got different local competitors around the world.
Regardless of the industry, antitrust law is meant to benefit consumers – not competitors.
Put Mickelson and Toms out there. You know, they had the morning off. They rested. Knowing them and the competitors that they are, they are probably a little angry that they weren’t out there in the morning.
Though it has plenty of competitors, Slack claims to be the ‘fastest growing business application in history’.
The biggest difference between the private sector and public sector is in the private sector, there’s a sense of urgency because you have customers and you have competitors. Whereas in government, one of your major objectives is to not make any really big mistakes.
I think the rise of China is inevitable, because China has moved from a low-cost producer, at low levels of technology, to higher levels of technology, and because it’s very competitive, even in some high-tech products they offer at very competitive rates – much lower than their competitors.
I thought when Samoa Joe won the World Title was a special night. That was an instance where TNA sort of got out of it’s own way and let the competitors speak for themselves.
Nando’s is a casual restaurant rather than a fast-food one – another aspirational touch. The food is energetically spiced, where so many of its competitors are bland and grilled to order, where the competition fries food and then lets it sit around.
We’re learning a lot from large international competitors… As we go international, we’re looking to add something unique to the market. And so when we do go international, it won’t just be as a taxi service.
The tech company needs to win in the war for talent. This means much greater focus on the employee, not simply as cog in the machine, but vital member of a programming team in a race against time and competitors. Wall Street is up-or-out, dog-eat-dog, survival of the fittest.
The quality of competitors abroad really pushes your timings, something that’s tough to replicate in the country.
My father believed that the higher you put your goal, the higher you reach. That was the main reason me and my sisters were playing mostly against male competitors.
We got bigger, much scarier competitors. We ended up with Microsoft, a company with all the money in the world, the way I look at those guys. And IBM, another company that, historically, dwarfed us.
The Justice Department needs to investigate how Goldman Sachs was able to steer things in such a manner through their former employees in the Bush administration, so that in the end Goldman’s competitors have disappeared and Goldman is left standing.
None of our competitors have ever made two systems that run the same software.
There’s a lot of skaters that I look up to, and I think my biggest skating role models were the two Russian competitors at the 2002 Olympic games in Salt Lake City. They really motivated me to follow my passion in skating, and it really blossomed from there.
A weightlifter should be able to do everything and borrow things from other sports to beat competitors.
Being a solo founder allows you to move quickly – when you’re going up against massive, entrenched competitors, you need to maximize speed and agility. Having just one person at the top allows for faster decision making.
My overwhelming concern will always be the well-being of the athletes. In Olympic sport, it is rare for competitors not to devote half their young life to this. Their families will have given up all sorts of things to allow them to do that.
Work with your competitors when the interest of the community and planet are at stake.
If you are creative enough to select the ideal vocation, you can win, win big time. The really brilliant millionaires are those who selected a vocation that they love, one that has few competitors but generates high profits.
An overly expansive virtual ‘toll’ for the Internet that blocks consumers’ and competitors’ access to the e-commerce superhighway is not the right answer.
But they are also better, our competitors are better because Wal-Mart exists.
Use your development time to brief analysts and industry press. Use these influencers as your eyes and ears to let you know what else is being developed by competitors so that you can be the first to market, and don’t make the mistake of launching an also-ran product.
Britain is one of the world’s most open economies. More dependent on trade than any other major country. Our success depends on our competitiveness and our competitiveness depends on raising our productivity, as our competitors are raising theirs.
Neighbors are competitors instead of partners, suspicious instead of trustful, indifferent instead of helpful, cold instead of loving, greedy instead of generous. We no longer consider ourselves living in neighborhoods, but only as living next to ‘hoods.’
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.
I was constantly being told I shouldn’t talk so much about how I was feeling. They seemed to think I was giving too much away to my competitors. Showing signs of weakness. But I’ve always thought that was rubbish.
In software and many other online markets, even dominant firms face potential threats because of the low costs for competitors to enter those markets. Threats more easily emerge because of better or newer technologies leapfrogging older ones.
