Arundhati Bhattacharya Quotes

Not only does Yahoo! have a unique franchise, it increasingly has industry-leading tools, technology and, most importantly, people.

A company doesn't have to compete with Amazon. A company can instead innovate in sectors Amazon doesn't presently care about.

I firmly believe that IBM's size can be used to its advantage.

The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.

Your most dangerous competitors are those that are most like you.

Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.

We had a couple of minor coups that made a big difference. We snared away from a competitor a correspondent already on the ground in Afghanistan. That was an enormous help to us, because there we were.

Only in America are business and government enemies.

The best minds are not in government. If they were, business would hire them away.

Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?

To gain the competitive edge, companies must master the ability to innovate.

We believe that when the right talent meets the right opportunity in a company with the right philosophy, amazing transformation can happen.

The fundamental basis of above-average performance in the long run is sustainable competitive advantage.

If we [Microsoft Corporation] weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocre company. Fear should guide you, but it should be latent. I have some latent fear. I consider failure on a regular basis.

The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, is to do an outstanding job with information.

By giving every child a fair start, we are improving our collective future, including the private sector's ability to find talent in a very competitive global marketplace.

Monopoly is a terrible thing, till you have it.

Relentless pursuit to find a competitive edge.

It just shows you have come prepared to play and ready to execute. It doesn't give you that much comfort when it's early and you still have another two and a half to three quarters to go. You better keep playing. But it is a positive, it gives you energy and it gives you a little boost like that.

It's not whether the glass is half empty or half full, it's who is pouring the water. The key in business and success at any endeavor is doing your best to control your destiny. You can't always do it, but you have to take every opportunity you can to be as prepared as-and ahead of-the competition as you possibly can be.

It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.

If someone is choosing between joining McKinsey or your startup it's very unlikely they're going to work out at the startup.

Strategy is about setting yourself apart from the competition. It's not a matter of being better at what you do - it's a matter of being different at what you do.

I did something rather innovative that my competitors didn't like: I took out a full-page advertisement in the Yellow Pages that listed an office on the east side of Cincinnati, and another office on the west side, while every other heating/air-conditioning company had only one location and one phone number. I was the citywide company. In fact, our 'westside office' was just an answering service taking telephone message. From the start we appeared to be a big company.

I move very well. Being able to go at different types of players, that's where I have an advantage.