John T. Chambers Quotes

Today, the competition is considerably more intense.

We fully expect our competitors to join us in embracing open standards with their next redesigns.

All competitors are fierce competitors; Vodafone is the world's second largest company. We fight it each day. Idea Cellular is big and successful, too. Competition is competition; we are used to it.

When a market isn't in transition, gaining market share is hard - you're fighting to take one or two points of share from competitors.

Many first-time founders fail to understand the difference between the potential of the Total Addressable Market (TAM) and the very finite subsection they can hope to capture. No company ever captures the entire market they pioneer. Innovation doesn't happen in a vacuum, and others will jump in from the moment you've identified the potential.

At Tatas, we believe that if we are not among the top three in an industry, we should look seriously at what it would take to become one of the top three players.. or think about exiting the industry

When I broke in, in 1957, it was wide open. Now you're up against strong competition.

But they are also better, our competitors are better because Wal-Mart exists.

It's not easy being number two. As a marketer, you have limited choices - you can pretend you're not defined by the market leader, or, you can embrace your position and go directly after your nemesis.

Sometimes your worst competitors are the ones which are dying because they do stupid things.

There is a healthy competition as there would be in any business. But we do not spend our days thinking about what Marvel is doing.

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

Every day, you get up, and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.

Competition is always there.

For us to be successful, we have to kick our competitors' butt.

There's always competitors out there, one way or another.

All things can be done by every company in the world. Apple builds a phone, and so does Samsung. It's not about being different but about being better at what you do.

If Dell's going to be a fast follower, then we'll continue to innovate.

The NXT environment is so competitive.

Tomorrow I will have new competitors such as Google, Microsoft, and Facebook coming into my garden. I'd rather focus on the competition of tomorrow than combine with the competition of today.

Our competitors aren’t taking our market share with devices; they are taking our market share with an entire ecosystem.

Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two big players, and end in a winner-take-all situation.

The way companies hang on to their marketshare is by being scared.

The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.

The competition is pretty rough these days.