Reggie Fils-Aime Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Here's a good rule of thumb: don't worry about a competitor at all, until they're actually beating you with a real shipped product.

First mover Advantage doesn't go to the company that starts up, it goes to the company that scales up

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.

If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.

When I came into the mobile phone business, I was really the upstart who pretty much took the business, not quite by storm, but really made an impact on it quite early on. But it was from a position, really, of feeling that I was a last mover.

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

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.

Most companies in a capitalistic system compete mightily to obtain monopolistic positions so they can avoid capitalistic competition thereafter. Whenever a business person must compete for price, he tends to describe that derisively as a “commodity business” and tries to remedy the situation.

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.

A monopoly is like running on firm ground. Nothing compels you to move, but if you do, you move forward. The faster you run, the more scenery you see - so you have some incentive to run fast.

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.

If you are in business and you can do something to get ahead of your rival business, you are going to do it.

There's a lot of businesses that are working hard, who are at the top of their games. Therefore, it's always going to be a market share fight.

You need to invest in areas where you can be the market leader because then you get a disproportionate share of the economics when you are.

The NXT environment is so competitive.

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.

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.

Competition should not be for a share of the market-but to expand the market.