Rony Abovitz Quotes

I enjoy looking at other people's products and learning from them. We take all of our competitors very seriously, as you know. You have to respect Intel. But we have our own tricks up our sleeves.

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.

They work in secrecy. I can't get any information. You can't find out anything until they get out to the floor. And it's hard to lick em at that stage. They're a closed corporation. When they stick together, you can't lick em on the floor.

I always recommend, if you can, to patent or protect whatever your idea is. If you can't, you have to make your best judgment. Sometimes people don't get anywhere because they sit on something, so afraid to reveal it. And yet, in the reverse, sometimes if you expose something too widely, you can risk losing it.

Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.

The most successful company in Silicon Valley is Apple, and they're the most secretive.

An increasing share of the espionage directed against the United States comes from spying by foreign governments against private American companies aimed at stealing commercial secrets to gain a national economic advantage.

It is unnatural for companies to sit down in front of their competitors and share the information about their vulnerabilities.

The government does not deny it routinely spies to advance American economic advantage, which is part of its broad definition of how it protects American national security.

I think competition is good. It finally delivers the best value to the customer, and I think it keeps all the players on their toes.

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.

There had to be a market in order for you to be successful in a business. The market had to need your business, or the product of it.

If you go 90 yards in a hundred-yard race, you come last. Usain Bolt slows down for the last half a yard, but for 99 yards, he is that far ahead that he can. In our business, you can't be far enough ahead. It is such a competitive marketplace.

I won't speak for the entertainment industry. I speak for Disney. I've seen people in the industry come to work every morning paranoid about what the other person or other company is doing. That means you're spending time and focus on somebody else's business instead of your own.

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.

I don't invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

Consulting offered me an opportunity to see a lot of different businesses in different regions of the world, to see how textiles were being affected by foreign competition, how technology was changing.

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.

Competition is one of the most important drivers of innovation because you have to stay in the race. You have to think of something new, and if you don't, well, of course you should leave the market.

Almost every move in the market is either a move to align with where Cisco is going or to align to compete against us or to utilize that technology.

At the end of the day, we have to find a way to compete better with the world.

There's competition everywhere.

Healthy competition is very important in any industry. It keeps you on your toes and helps you grow.

Competition matters.

I have no problem with money coming in and spawning competition. I am honest enough to admit that Mahindra & Mahindra would not have been going to the IITs and doing research if there was no competition.