Victor Kiam Quotes

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

In the private sector, there is always innovation. There's always change. There's always improving productivity, and if you're not leading that, you'll be passed and ultimately go out of business. So there's an urgency to constantly update and renew and to rethink your enterprise.

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

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

There is a healthy competition as there would be in any business. But we do not spend our days thinking about what Marvel is doing.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

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.

You have to do what the market requires of you... You either keep swimming, or you sink.

Competition matters.

In business, what do we do? We compete.

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

Today, the competition is considerably more intense.

There's always something happening in the world that creates an opportunity to try to fix a business and build a business.

In a globalized world, one application can spread like wildfire and there's only one winning company, which means you have to invest more than you've ever had.

There really is no shortcut just because you have a name, or you have some kind of access or some way you can solve all the problems. And I think one of the things I learned with FUBU, you have to understand that there's really only two ways of operating a business: more sales, or lower overhead.

In the long run all producers are forced to use the most efficient methods or give place to others who do.

If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd, haven't you?

It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.

This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely.

You have to be willing to risk things; otherwise, somebody else will put you out of business.

Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.

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

The packaged food business environment is very Darwinian. You're fighting for survival every year; you evolve and grow or you die. It's really that simple.

A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.

Volkswagen must continue to attack and make good use of its opportunities.