Steve Jobs Quotes

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.

When you start losing market share, it's really tough to gain it back; you need the product portfolio and presence in many markets.

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.

It's easier to build a business around a first-class product, even if it's a more expensive product to produce.

I've never had difficulty dominating any market I've been in.

Market share is key.

The best mental effort in the game of business is concentrated on the major problem of securing the consumer's dollar before the other fellow gets it.

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.

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.

Great companies are built on great products.

Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we're going to win.

The only one that seems to be able to hold the business is Disney. They do it is because they have a fabulous philosophy about marketing- but even they wavered.

Most of what we've done at SurveyMonkey is create a market, which I would say is much harder than trying to enter a market that already exists. But if you get it right, it can become a great business.

Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.

I'd rather Apple cannibalize Apple than somebody else cannibalize Apple.

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.

If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.

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.

When I came into the mobile phone business, I was really the upstart who pretty much took the business, not quite by storm, but really made an impact on it quite early on. But it was from a position, really, of feeling that I was a last mover.

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

Global competition is about winners and losers.

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

This [Asia, Australia & New Zealand] is going to be the world't largest market. If we're not there setting the rules, then somebody else is.