Competitive Disadvantage Quotes

If you're going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.

Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world.

Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

There's a lot of times I'll just play too passive and since I'm not going to play defense as well as most guys can, I can't get away with passive play.

Fitness will be a major factor in the first race and I think that will play into the hands of drivers who have been racing recently, rather than people like me who haven't raced properly for a decade. I'am not one of the favourites to start with.

Fundamentally, where you have an industry in which labor is the primary cost, we can’t compete and probably shouldn’t.

[Russia] has been haunted by its relative backwardness, particularly in the military and industrial spheres.

Every dollar of tax imposed on our exchanges in the shape of duties impairs, to that extent, our capacity to meet the severe competition to which we are exposed; and nothing but a system of high protective duties, long continued, can prevent us from meeting it successfully. It is that which we have to fear.

The biggest fear that I see is that we will be left behind. We are a very slow industry; for us to make a decision takes forever. Take Tesla: Elon moves at the speed of a rocket.

Markets do not run better when manufacturing shifts to China largely because of the actions of its government. Nor do they become more efficient when Chinese companies are given special privileges in global markets, while American companies must struggle to compete with unfairly traded goods.

If you, as a company, can get a deal that I, as a company, cannot get, you can compete with me but not on the merits, because your tax burden is not the same as mine.

I'm extremely competitive with myself. But I'm not actively competitive with other women in the business. Which may have been a mistake. I've never had someone in my life, agent or otherwise, fighting for me.

Challengers do not have a level playing field.

The successful companies try to keep the new entrants down. Now that's great for a company like ours. We make more money that way because we have less competition and less innovation. But for the country as a whole, it's horrible.

You can't disengage yourself from that game if you are completely unaware of what people out there might be doing, you're just going to be tripped up, you're going to find yourself continually at a disadvantage.

Without numerical fluency, in the part of life most of us inhibit, you are like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.

Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out.

NHL clubs don't like having to shut down at a critical part of the season and disrupt our season for anything, let alone a situation where we're not given an opportunity to promote our presence.

China is eating our lunch because they don't partake in all of the rules and regulations that we do.

Instead of playing to win, I was playing not to lose. It reminds me of the story I once heard about two friends being chased by a bear, when one turned to the other and said, "I just realized that I don't need to outrun the bear; I only need to outrun you.

We no longer feel that we can be fair to children we bring into this world, unless we can make sure from the start that they shall have capital or education or both, so that they need never compete with those who now fill the lower rungs of the ladder of success.

In high school, I didn't get the chance to wrestle varsity until my senior year because I had an older brother who was better than me.

I didn't have the kind of budget to compete with the big studios, therefore I had to make my films more outlandish, more outrageous.

We’re far behind [Microsoft]. They are 3 time bigger than we are. They have a monopoly and we don’t—darnit!