Reid Hoffman Quotes

In a market where funding is hard to come by, if you're scaled already, then you are in a brilliant position because nobody is going to catch up with you.

If competitors don't like our two to one advantage, dominating market share with both SP and DS, well, I've got bad news. Because we just made it two and a half to one.

When you look at a company that's already succeeded or is at the very top of its game, it isn't necessarily when it's executing well. It tends to be peacetime - you've defeated the competition, you have the highest margins, the highest multiple.

AOL has a great collection of brands, and the question is, 'Can they innovate and scale their business?' And those are very challenging things to do. But I think they are well positioned to grow.

If you want to be promoted into the first league of carmakers, then you can't just follow suit.

India is a large market where our focus will be to grow faster than the market and add few percentage points to our market share every year.

If you look at the numbers from 2002 to 2016, we have consistently been market leaders. We have followed a well-articulated strategy, and our focus is to continue that strategy.

'First to market' is simply a demarcation on a calendar. It really doesn't mean anything.

Scale will get you strategy.

I want Wipro to be among the top ten IT companies in the world.

You have to be the first, best or different.

You've got to figure out how you're going to come in and significantly impact and redefine a market such that you become a market share leader in it.

The more evident it is that a certain company is going to become the market leader in a big market space, then the higher the valuation goes because the risk has been dramatically reduced.

We are No. 1 worldwide by quite a margin on the client side and expanding, according to IDC and others, every single quarter. Our expectation is that the industry will consolidate and that more of our competitors will exit.

In a globalized world, one application can spread like wildfire and there's only one winning company, which means you have to invest more than you've ever had.

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

Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

I don't know what would have happened to Wal-Mart if we had laid low and never stirred up the competition. My guess is that we would have remained a strictly regional operator.

Customers are willing to try new things, and if you can survive, you will have fewer competitors. It's like entering the eye of the storm. As long as you are strong enough to survive, you can end up in still water by yourself.

We were the first multibrand platform for the customization of designer clothing. And it's great to be a first mover if you manage to pull it off. You can have a great competitive advantage. But if you're quite early, you're learning a lot: both learning as a company, and the customer is still learning.

This [Asia, Australia & New Zealand] is going to be the world't largest market. If we're not there setting the rules, then somebody else is.

Tesla has defied everyone's predictions again and again. It has such a unique position in the market, and so far, whatever people think about Tesla and its business model, there is one fact that nobody can dispute: It pretty much has the market to itself.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Buying a company that is number one in its business is hard to do. When something is for sale, it's often not a leader.

The second you get set in your ways is the second a newer, fresher, more innovative company is going to come in and take your market share.