Charles Revson Quotes

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.

Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we're going to win.

Domination and monopoly is the name of the game in the web marketplace.

He who puts ... a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest.

If you're a large organization, you may welcome a bit of regulation to keep the small guys out.

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.

In business, competition is never as healthy as total domination.

Monopoly is the condition of every successful business.

I found that competition was supposed to be a menace and that a good manager circumvented his competitors by getting a monopoly by artificial means.

Win at all cost. That's why I love playing the game.

Our goal is not to be number one. Our aim is to be the only one.

Competition exists everywhere.

Competition matters.

Uber sees ride-sharing as a winner-takes-all war and subsequently is willing to offer below-market prices in a bid to crowd out the competition.

Of course I'm not stupid enough to think that we could take on WWE head-on and win, because they're too big of a monster.

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

Philadelphia is a big market. We're going to operate the team like it's in a big market. We've got a very good contract with Comcast for our local TV. We're going to be aggressive when it's appropriate to be aggressive.

Technology companies tend to operate in winner-take-all spaces and thus adopt a very high-commitment culture.

It's not hard to be valuable when you are a monopoly.

If an opportunity comes to knock out my opponent, I'm going to take it.

We believe in the art of war. We are trying to get our competition to attack us with angry, virulent energy, so we can transform that into larger market share.

No company has a permanent consumer franchise. No one has the only game in town. The never-ending cycle of destruction and change inherent in a capitalist economy always provides new opportunities for those with determination, goals and concentration.

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.

Superior sales and distribution by itself can create a monopoly, even with no product differentiation. The converse is not true. No matter how strong your product-even if it easily fits into already established habits and anybody who tries it likes it immediately-you must still support it with a strong distribution plan.

You have to find a small market in which you can get a monopoly and then quickly expand.