“Playing catch-up with the competition can only ever help you make incremental gains. It will never help you create something new.”

—  Eric Schmidt

Eric Schmidt: 'Playing catch-up with the competition will never help you create something new' http://macdailynews.com/2014/08/27/eric-schmidt-playing-catch-up-with-the-competition-will-never-help-you-create-something-new in MacDailyNews (28 August 2014).

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