Soren Skou Quotes

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.

You've got to remember there's intense competition between Microsoft and Amazon.

While it is often true that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, it seems like Yahoo's almost obsessive focus on Google is taking away from its other businesses.

If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.

Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.

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

We are quite open, however, to looking at acquisitions and there are opportunities that we periodically consider. and I think that may be something we do in the future, but I must say that there is no commitment to that at the present time in any form or size.

I competed with Yahoo for 15-1/2 years, and the one thing I tried to do over the years was desperately try to get a deal with them.

Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.

… great contest for commercial supremacy.

New markets shall not be allowed to interfere with the interests of former ones.

We don't go into a market without a chance of a 40 percent share and sustainable differentiation. We wouldn't get into wiring oil rigs if we didn't believe we could get 40 percent.

SoftBank has had a lot of businesses, but they've always ranked, say, third in Japan or fourth in the U.S.

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 can get wrapped up in that megamerger mentality.

There are a lot of threats out there. Amazon can enter the travel market. Google could enter the accommodation space. But that is not something that we actively focus on.

Not all of Microsoft's businesses are successful, but they have every technology possible.

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.

It's a very competitive market. AEG has a ticketing platform, Stubhub has grown their marketshare, Vivid has come out of nowhere. It's not like venues don't have options. If you're a venue you can pick any ticket platform you want, and we have to provide a better product and win that business fair and square.

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

I think that Amazon made an incredible play with the Twitch purchase.

VCs invest in innovation and disruption, but how often do they innovate themselves?

If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job.

Founders have continually struggled with and adapted the 'big business' tools, rules, and processes taught in business schools when startups failed to execute 'the plan,' never admitting to the entrepreneurs that no startup executes to its business plan.

I was ringside for Amazon and Google.