Bill Gates Quotes

Today, the competition is considerably more intense.

There are companies with management and companies with money. You can always find money. Management is the key to success in any business.

But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.

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

Business is a string of seemingly impossible problems looking for solutions. Each problem you solve creates a new barrier to entry for your next competitor.

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

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.

It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force.

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.

Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another city, but with millions of businesses around the world.

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

... 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

[Corporate] takeovers are for the public good, but that's not why I do it. I do it to make money.

Modern competition is often described as a fight of all against all.

When Interest is less, Trade is incourag'd, and the Merchant can be a Gainer; whereas, when it is great, the Usurer, or Money-owner takes all. The Dutch, with whom Interest is low, Trade cheaper, and under-sell us.

New industries are as a rule more profitable than old ones.

The competition principle does not mean a competitive edge, comrades

Sometimes, for businesses, competition can be inconvenient, because competition means that the race is never over, the game is never won. No matter how well you were doing in the past, there's always someone who are out there wanting to take your place. So the temptation to avoid competition is powerful. It's rooted in motives as old as Adam and Eve: in greed for yet more money, in fear of losing your position in the market and all the benefits it brings.

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.

I believe confusion is good. Worldwide market leaders gain when there is confusion in the market.

The enterprise market is never winner-take-all.

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.

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.

It's a natural push and pull that exists in any sports organization. When you are in a big market and then you win, and you're up against the Yankees, and ratings are what they are and attendance is what it is, no one wants to go backwards; as a business, you don't want to go backwards.