Business competition

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Business is war. It's dog eat dog, rat eat rat. If my competitor were drowning, I'd walk over and I'd put a hose right in his mouth.

Ray Kroc

Founder

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Business competition Capitalism

Speaker

Ray Kroc

Actor

Michael Keaton

Source

Founder

Medium

Film

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

2016 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Founder. Directed by John Lee Hancock, FilmNation Entertainment/The Combine/Faliro House Productions S. A., 2016.

You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

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Business competition Business Capitalism

Author

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Medium

Letter

Statement Type

Threat

Language

English

Time

1853 1850s 19th century

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Citation

Vanderbilt, Cornelius. Letter to Charles Morgan and C. K. Garrison. c. 1853.

Legitimate strife in business should not be superseded by an enforced concession to the demands of combinations that have the power to destroy, nor should the people to be served lose the benefit of cheapness which usually results from wholesome competition. These aggregations and combinations frequently constitute conspiracies against the interests of the people, and in all their phases they are unnatural and opposed to our American sense of fairness.

Grover Cleveland

Second Inaugural Address of Grover Cleveland

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Monopoly Business competition Corporate power

Speaker

Grover Cleveland

Source

Second Inaugural Address of Grover Cleveland Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1893 1890s 19th century

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Citation

Cleveland, Grover. "Second Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1893, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Only the paranoid survive.

Andrew Grove

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Business competition Business

Author

Andrew Grove

Source

The New York Times

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1994 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Grove, Andrew. Quoted in "Ideas & Trends; The Chip on Intel's Shoulder." Written by John Markoff. The New York Times, 18 Dec. 1994, sec. 4, p. 6.