competitors

“What I figured out is there's two types of people. There's competitors, and there's achievers. And achievers wake up with their own to-do list of things that they want to do by the end of the day, and kind of focus on getting those things done. And it's very m…”

“I always relished it when I saw my competitors pick up outlying products. Tents, sleeping bags, et cetera, because it, to me, it meant they were going to lose focus and expertise on what they already were doing and kind of water themselves down.”

“Looking back on it, I think, I don't think it was worth the time and the energy. Our whole career has been built on not focusing on competitors, and then all of a sudden this happened, and it caused us to lose focus for a little bit, to be honest, too. So, I w…”

“And that's good news, because if you're, you know, if you don't have a real business, you won't, competitors validate the validity of the business.”

“Part of our success is that that bad market brought competitors down to our size. For a period of time, and we're ready to go when they were ready to go when the market turned around.”