Jerry Z. Muller Quotes

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.

We must compete or retreat.

The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do.

Today, the competition is considerably more intense.

The competition is pretty rough these days.

The Old Country must wake up if she intends to maintain her old position of pre-eminence in her Colonial trade against foreign competitors.

The competition principle does not mean a competitive edge, comrades

Competition exists everywhere.

In our family, if you weren't competitive, you didn't eat. You had to fight for what you wanted.

I see life and the world simply as an arena for competition. That's just what people do, and there are always going to be winners and losers.

The NXT environment is so competitive.

It's a god-eat-god world.

The high-tech business, the semiconductor business, it's very competitive. You're out there every day slugging it out, no different from players slugging it out on the ice.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

It's a tough world out there and all the guys are fighting hard and the competition is really tough.

As a multisport athlete, I was always fascinated with competition and how to win. At HBS and later at the Harvard Department of Economics, I was drawn to the field of competition and strategy because it tackles perhaps the most basic question in both business management and industrial economics: What determines corporate performance?

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

Global competition is about winners and losers.

Modern industry and the opening of the world market made the struggle universal and at the same time gave it unheard-of virulence. Advantages in natural or artificial conditions of production now decide the existence or non-existence of individual capitalists as well as of whole industries and countries. He that falls is remorselessly cast aside.

Market expansion is not an opportunity. It is a necessity.

In the economic competition, in the technological competition, we are competitors; we are not allies.

Practically every enterprise is threatened and put on the defensive as soon as it comes into existence.

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

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.

Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity:..