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

— Eric Schmidt

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Playing catch-up with the competition can only ever help you make incremental gains. It will never help you create something new." in the context of "Eric Schmidt: 'Playing catch-up with the competition will never help you create something new' in MacDailyNews (28 August 2014)." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Eric Schmidt

About Eric Schmidt

Eric Emerson Schmidt (born April 27, 1955) is an engineer, a former member of the board of directors of Apple Inc., and current executive chairman of Google.