Mark Cuban Quotes

When we look at investing, we always think about 'how defensible is this, how likely is it that somebody is going to copy this.' E-commerce tends to be something easy to copy because it's execution.

Tomorrow I will have new competitors such as Google, Microsoft, and Facebook coming into my garden. I'd rather focus on the competition of tomorrow than combine with the competition of today.

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.

You've got to remember there's intense competition between Microsoft and Amazon.

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.

When I broke in, in 1957, it was wide open. Now you're up against strong competition.

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.

Today, the competition is considerably more intense.

We, we - as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.

If you choose a market that already exists, say, networking equipment, you have to compete with an established company like Cisco. Even if your product is marginally better, Cisco can fudge it and outsell you.

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.

Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.

In America, when you bring an idea to market, you usually have several months before competition pops up, allowing you to capture significant market share. In China, you can have hundreds of competitors within the first hours of going live. Ideas are not important in China - execution is.

All competitors are fierce competitors; Vodafone is the world's second largest company. We fight it each day. Idea Cellular is big and successful, too. Competition is competition; we are used to it.

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

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.

Be careful not to start a company that really belongs as a feature of another company, like the 25 Twitter URL shortener companies out there. Pick a real problem that's here to stay.

Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.

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.

People are going to copy your product if you build great stuff. Just because Yahoo has a search box doesn't make it Google.

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.

If you're entering anything where there's an existing marketplace, against large, entrenched competitors, then your product or service needs to be much better than theirs. It can't be a little bit better, because then you put yourself in the shoes of the consumer... you're always going to buy the trusted brand unless there's a big difference.

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.