Robert Frost Quotes

Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.

There are a lot of people who are trying hard to sell themselves as Russian vodkas.

Today, the competition is considerably more intense.

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.

It was hard to watch, the business side is so big in the game.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

If you're going to stay in the Olympics, you've got to be entertaining and get sponsorship.

Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people.

I think small business is struggling in New York City. It's a fantastic market, it's a very appealing market, there's lots of opportunity, at the same time it's a very difficult place to build a small business.

What I do know, at least what I think I have learned from my experiences in business, is that when there is a rush for everyone to do the same thing, it becomes more difficult to do. Not easier. Harder.

If you are successful, you will be cloned. That's life. In fact, it's a sign that you've made it when clones of your website, mobile app, and business start cropping up.

When you’re dealing with a commodity, high productivity means that nobody makes any money.

It's very challenging to carve back market share.

Sport is an entertainment, in one sense. But it's also a business.

Bollywood is a business more than an art industry. One has to play the game others play to carve your own path.

Publishing is a tough business.

I love basketball, but it's just entertainment, just business.

The biggest problem almost all comics face is not piracy or demographics or any of that nonsense: it's obscurity.

Football is a business, at the end of the day.

Competition is a great thing and critically important in any industry. I respect the companies that build their brand through innovation/great product, packaging, sharp marketing and clever ideas.

I think one of the problems with the capitalist mainstream is this: no matter what you create to respond or resist it they will buy it.

The rushed existence into which industrialized, commercialized man has precipitated himself is actually a good example of an inexpedient development caused entirely by competition between members of the same species. Human beings of today are attacked by so-called manager diseases, high blood pressure, renal atrophy, gastric ulcers, and torturing neuroses: they succumb to barbarism because they have no more time for cultural interests.

I do voiceovers, but being on-camera and selling something? I wasn't really interested. And then I thought, well, wait a minute. Everybody's selling something. When you turn on the tube... And then if you go to Europe or Asia, everyone is selling something. All the guys that don't want to be seen selling something here are selling something there. So I thought what the hell?

The States has more publishers and a wider range of aesthetics but so much more competition - the amount of writers vying for the same spot as you is staggering. I think they're different challenges, but equally frustrating when you're trying to get your foot in the door.

Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other.