Abigail Johnson Quotes

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

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

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.

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

Today, the competition is considerably more intense.

I think if companies start reinventing themselves and focus on the customer experience more, they will win out in the end.

Starting my own business was kind of a wakeup call in a number of different ways. I had to meet a payroll every week, and we had to satisfy customers, and we had competitors that we had to compete with in order to have those customers come into our stores, and we had to compete with other employers for our employees.

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.

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.

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

I look at companies as price-players or quality-players. The only way to go with J.Crew was quality.

The enterprise market is never winner-take-all.

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.

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.

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.

Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will.

Customers are very demanding and well informed.

I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.

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.

You've got to keep reinventing. You'll have new competitors. You'll have new customers all around you.

The competition is pretty rough these days.