Anand Mahindra Quotes

You have to be willing to risk things; otherwise, somebody else will put you out of business.

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

The biggest challenge to thriving in the marketplace is identifying the strategic moves that will keep us ahead of the competition.

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

I enjoy looking at other people's products and learning from them. We take all of our competitors very seriously, as you know. You have to respect Intel. But we have our own tricks up our sleeves.

The market is so competitive. There are so many products that are similar. So we are forced to invest in innovative research in new products that are one or two years ahead of the market.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

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.

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

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.

Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.

In America, when you bring an idea to market, you usually have several months before competition pops up, allowing you to capture significant market share. In China, you can have hundreds of competitors within the first hours of going live. Ideas are not important in China - execution is.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

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.

I definitely think what drives technology companies is the people; because in a technology company it's always about what are you going to do next.

Well, as we built the business in the 1990's, as I said, I enjoyed that.

Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.

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

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

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

... whatever business you're in, it doesn't matter, it's going to commoditize over time, it's going to devalue, you've got to keep moving it to a higher value. Keep going to a higher value in whatever it is that you do and force yourself and force the organization to always do it ahead of time

Patents have not been a positive force in stimulating innovation at Cisco. Competition has been the motivator; bringing new products to market in a timely manner is critical. Everything we have done to create new products would have been done even if we could not obtain patents

The breakup was a good thing. It brought competition into a field where there hadn’t been any competition and that’s the American way. Competition brings down price and brings up quality.