The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
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Henry Ford
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The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
Sunil Shenoy
on 09 Mar 10Thanks for sharing. Thats a really nice quote.Will add to my quotes collection.
Scott Miller
on 09 Mar 10Like this one. Really puts the focus on “what you do”. Not trying to play catch up or one-up competition.
Denis Fadeev
on 09 Mar 10“I like it when competitors copy me because it means they aren’t about to leapfrog me: they’ll always be playing catch-up.” — Wil Shipley
James
on 09 Mar 10Kinda goes against the “Pick a fight” you talk about.
JF
on 09 Mar 10James: You can pick a fight against a concept, too. Like complexity. That’s not a direct competitor, that’s an idea.
Nimit Kashyap
on 09 Mar 10added the quotes collection
James
on 09 Mar 10Totally agree.
David Andersen
on 10 Mar 10I don’t really think it’s an either/or thing. You’ve got to focus on doing your own thing really well, but you have to pay attention to what the competition is (or isn’t) doing too. It’s a bit arrogant to think you can’t learn anything from your competitors and if you ignore them, you don’t learn. Of course that’s not the same as worrying about them.
Adwebio
on 10 Mar 10David Andersen: I think the quote does not tell us not to learn from our competitors but rather to focus on your business instead of losing time on thinking about what the competitors are doing. The key to success is “remain focused on our business and stop bothering about what the others are doing”. At least this is how I understand the quote.
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