If we are not realistic about what we are good at, then there is a chance of going backwards in the face of further competition.
How could an intelligent tennis racket improve the player's experience? More intelligence in power tools? More intelligence in meters and mowers and mittens? Smarter bicycles and bananas? Who's going to connect all that stuff in ways that your customers will pay for? Who's going to take different combinations of all the data those intelligent thingamajigs are spewing an turn it into insights? The answer's the same as it has always been: It'll be you, or it'll be your competitor.
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
You either do what everyone else is doing and you do it better, or you do what no one else is doing and you don’t invite comparison.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot, and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Billy Beane: You get on base, we win. You don't, we lose. And I hate losing Chave. I hate it! I hate losing more than I even wanna win. And there's a difference.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
If you make anything good, you're going to have competitors, so you may as well face that.
Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.
Competition can make people hallucinate opportunities where none exist.
All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.
...every time your opponent moves, slow down and try to understand the game from their perspective - why did they make that move?
Win-win sees life as a cooperative, not a competitive arena.
learn how to be opponents without being enemies...One thing that helps me avoid becoming enemies is to emphasize what I am for rather than approaching a situation as being against something...For some that translates into automatically being "against" something or having hateful feelings towards those with an opposing agenda.
Joker: Now. Our operation is small, but there is a lot of potential for aggressive expansion. So which one of you fine gentlemen would like to join our team. Oh, there’s only one spot open right now so we’re going to have tryouts! Make it fast.
The worst time to get to know your adversary is during a stand-off.
Symptoms of Participation Trophy Syndrome may vary depending on the seriousness of the outbreak. However, most of the infected typically receive a trophy or a gold star.
Add more value than anyone else does, and you'll have a chance to win.
When I was a boy I used to uh... I used to read all about Edison and the Wright brothers, Mr. Ford, they were my heroes. Rags to riches, that's not just the name of a book, that's what this country was all about. We invented the free enterprise system where anybody, no matter who he was, where he came from, what class he belonged to, if he came up with a better idea about anything, there's no limit to how far he could go. I grew up a generation too late, I guess, because now the way the system works, the loner, the dreamer, the crackpot who comes up with some crazy idea that everybody laughs at, that later turns out to revolutionize the world, he's squashed from above before he even gets his head out of the water, because the bureaucrats they would rather kill a new idea than let it rock the boat. If Benjamin Franklin were alive today he would be thrown in jail for sailing a kite without a license. It's true. We're all puffed up with ourselves now 'cause we invented the bomb. Dropped the... Beat the daylights out of the Japanese, the Nazis. But if big business closes the door on the little guy with a new idea, we're not only closing the door on progress but we're sabotaging everything we fought for, everything the country stands for. And one day we're going to find ourselves at the bottom of the heap, instead of king of the hill having no idea how we got there, buying our radios and our cars from our former enemies. I don't believe that's going to happen. I can't believe it because if I ever stop believing in the plain ol' common horse sense of the American people there'd be no way I could get out of bed in the morning.
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.