Lee Scott Quotes

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 you compete with Wal-Mart, even if you think you've found a niche don't ever become complacent.

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

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.

I think competition is good. It finally delivers the best value to the customer, and I think it keeps all the players on their toes.

From our perspective, there's been a price war in the PC industry since we opened for business in 1985.

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

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.

Today, the competition is considerably more intense.

Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate.

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

It's competition that forces companies to get out of their complacency.

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.

I don't see anything Wal-Mart can do that other retailers can't.

We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.

I was very clear why we put these companies together and what our goals were. It was really to allow both Sears and Kmart to compete in what I thought was going to be a more challenging but evolving industry.

Most companies in a capitalistic system compete mightily to obtain monopolistic positions so they can avoid capitalistic competition thereafter. Whenever a business person must compete for price, he tends to describe that derisively as a “commodity business” and tries to remedy the situation.

We’re far behind [Microsoft]. They are 3 time bigger than we are. They have a monopoly and we don’t—darnit!

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.

Almost every move in the market is either a move to align with where Cisco is going or to align to compete against us or to utilize that technology.

Competition matters.

I want to make thorough steps to create a system that will spur industry competition.

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

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.

I want to put H&M and Zara out of business.