John Mackey Quotes

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

Competition is always there.

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.

There's competition everywhere.

Competition can never be eliminated from this industry. There is nothing wrong with it. It keeps you on your toes, making you work harder.

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.

The way companies hang on to their marketshare is by being scared.

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.

But they are also better, our competitors are better because Wal-Mart exists.

We fully expect our competitors to join us in embracing open standards with their next redesigns.

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.

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

We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.

... whatever business you're in, it doesn't matter, it's going to commoditize over time, it's going to devalue, you've got to keep moving it to a higher value. Keep going to a higher value in whatever it is that you do and force yourself and force the organization to always do it ahead of time

The breakup was a good thing. It brought competition into a field where there hadn’t been any competition and that’s the American way. Competition brings down price and brings up quality.

Every day, you get up, and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.

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.

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.

I want to make thorough steps to create a system that will spur industry competition.

From our perspective, there's been a price war in the PC industry since we opened for business in 1985.

If there's a car company, and you have another car company, you don't stop building your car and company because there are others.

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.