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competitor

«A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'.»
«What do you do when your competitor is drowning? Get a live hose - and stick it in his mouth.»
«A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.»
«Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.»
«Today is a time of turbulence and stagnation, of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic, omnivorous videocassette recorder (VCR). In other words, it is business as usual.»
«If you're not a competitor, you've just got to go home.»
«Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy contest for superiority be crowned with honour, if not with success.»
«POSTERITY, n. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.»
«NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending.»
«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.»