Henry Ford on Competition

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.

—Henry Ford

I like this quote because it is a great response to all the "best practices" and "benchmarking the industry" talk. The ideas are not secret and they're not hard to find -- they're hard to implement, day after day, thoughtfully and scrupulously, for the long haul.