Danny Rimer Quotes

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.

You can learn everything that there is to know about the industry or the player from the company that is performing better or worse.

Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.

We recognize the need to adapt to a changing competitive environment.

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

Sometimes your worst competitors are the ones which are dying because they do stupid things.

There's something about me that wants to grow a big company. I don't deny that. I enjoy the game, and the only way to really enjoy it is to win. I like to win. It's more fun.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely.

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

As they grow, companies saturate their markets, become more complex and difficult to manage, and face larger and more entrenched competitors.

You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.

When you compete with Wal-Mart, even if you think you've found a niche don't ever become complacent.

Every time we bring someone in we ensure that they are a strategic thinker, but even more important that they understand that if the products aren't successful and the products don't sell that there won't be anything to strategize about.

It's really hard to run a business against somebody who is not acting as if it were in business.

Our employers today face numerous challenges and stiff competition from businesses all over the world.

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

In the economic competition, in the technological competition, we are competitors; we are not allies.

Business is Business.

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.

In any competitive environment, whether you're in sales or marketing or whatever it is, you have to know your competition, understand who they are, do intelligent analysis on them and then you have to know yourself - who you are and what you're capable of doing.

When you're a large company with significant market share, it's tempting to view market disruptions as a threat, but we view them as an opportunity.

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.

Businesses will ultimately go where the markets and opportunities are.

Successful strategic vision lay in the fact that we visualized the retail business to be much bigger, ahead of what others thought it to be.