Warren Buffett Quotes

I don't see anything Wal-Mart can do that other retailers can't.

If you change the rules of the market, you can be more successful than your competitors.

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

The enterprise market is never winner-take-all.

When a market isn't in transition, gaining market share is hard - you're fighting to take one or two points of share from competitors.

We compete with Dell and HP. Now, we are going to compete with Sony and Best Buy. Are we going to be like Best Buy? No. Are we going to be a small Dell? No. We are going to be uniquely Gateway.

When I broke in, in 1957, it was wide open. Now you're up against strong competition.

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.

In a maturing market it's not advisable to be always everybody's darling, because you get too thin.

Once you create a loyal customer base, it's tough for a competitor to take that away.

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.

Now if you go exactly where your competitors are, you're dead.

It's not easy being number two. As a marketer, you have limited choices - you can pretend you're not defined by the market leader, or, you can embrace your position and go directly after your nemesis.

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.

I think we are living in a time where the consumer has lots of choices, whether it's coffee, newspapers or whatever it is. And there is parity in the market place, and as a result of that, the consumer is beginning to make decisions, not just on what things cost and the convenience of it.

Competition is good because we need to educate customers, and Ozon.ru itself will not be able to do it.

I think in just about any business the low cost competitor is always going to have an advantage.

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.

I think any company should compete on the quality of their products, their prices, the novelty they can produce, their services, because that would be fair competition.

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

There's always competitors out there, one way or another.

The NXT environment is so competitive.

The biggest cost of my business is competition - promoters bidding against each other to get a tour.

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.

The reality is that we've seen the last of any serious price wars for a long time. I don't think any of the others could afford it, certainly not on a long-term basis.