Douglas Leone Quotes

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

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.

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

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

Businesswise, everything's been good.

Business is Business.

There is no resting place for an enterprise in a competitive economy.

He who puts ... a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest.

We got bigger, much scarier competitors. We ended up with Microsoft, a company with all the money in the world, the way I look at those guys. And IBM, another company that, historically, dwarfed us.

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.

Competition matters.

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.

In business, what do we do? We compete.

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

Anytime there is a new, interesting space that comes along, there are a bunch of companies that enter the market.

An adaptable company is one that captures more than its fair share of new opportunities. It's always redefining its 'core business' in ways that open up new avenues for growth.

$200, 300 million games, I'm a little scared about that; there aren't a lot of companies that have the resources or the courage to spend that much.

The PC is successful because we're all benefiting from the competition with each other. If Twitter comes along, our games benefit. If Nvidia makes better graphics technology, all the games are going to shine. If we come out with a better game, people are going to buy more PCs.

If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.

We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.

Disruption is continuously afoot in every industry, but especially in autos. It is how Toyota, Nissan and Honda bloodied Detroit: They did not start their attack with Lexus, Infiniti and Acura, but with low-end subcompact models branded Corona, Datsun and CVCC.

It's not about market share. If you have a successful company, you will get your market share. But to get a successful company, what do you have to have? The same metrics of success that your customer does.

No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.

It's really hard to compete with Apple on pure coolness, and if you do, you're probably going to use some of the things they pioneered.