Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The best mental effort in the game of business is concentrated on the major problem of securing the consumer's dollar before the other fellow gets it.

The two most fundamental strategic choices are deciding where to play and how to win.

We compete with Dell and HP. Now, we are going to compete with Sony and Best Buy. Are we going to be like Best Buy? No. Are we going to be a small Dell? No. We are going to be uniquely Gateway.

Business is more exciting than any game.

In a commodity business, it's very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.

You intentionally start small, because you will not be able to compete with an incumbent... because the incumbent is always going to go for the full solution.

Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.

I'd rather Apple cannibalize Apple than somebody else cannibalize Apple.

When you can't compete on cost, compete on quality.

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.

Competition is good because we need to educate customers, and Ozon.ru itself will not be able to do it.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

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

'Product life' is measured in months, not years, and as soon as you introduce a 'product,' understand that others in your business are going to reverse engineer it to duplicate the results after they circumnavigate the patents, the trademarks, and the intellectual property.

Business is the systematic playing of games.

I never wanted to compete on price in my history because on price, you don't always win.

In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.

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.

We've got a great value proposition against Chromebooks, we are not ceding the market to anyone.

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.

Competing at full price is the way we like to do business, but we cannot ignore the promotional environment.

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.

One of the things that slightly annoys me in business is that we use words like innovation. Young people often think innovation is about doing something new, but actually it's not. It's about doing something better than your competition.

You want an idea that turns into a monopoly. But you can't get a monopoly, in a big market right away; too much competition for that.