The closer you get to being king, the more vicious the competition gets between rivals.

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Kodak's current woes boil down to that eerily familiar song: An old-line technology company unable to adapt to the fast-pace and vicious competition of the digital age.

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"Overbanking and vicious competition forced many banks to take greater risks to compete in lending, " said the Harvard-educated former deputy finance minister.

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Startup culture is as cutthroat and vicious as it gets, but there is a distinction between competition and greed, and that is the difference between startups trying to change the world, and Wall Street.

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