John Caudwell Quotes

We recognize the need to adapt to a changing competitive environment.

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

But they are also better, our competitors are better because Wal-Mart exists.

When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals.

Today, the competition is considerably more intense.

If you change the rules of the market, you can be more successful than your competitors.

We fully expect our competitors to join us in embracing open standards with their next redesigns.

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.

For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.

No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn't.

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.

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

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

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.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

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.

I have no problem with money coming in and spawning competition. I am honest enough to admit that Mahindra & Mahindra would not have been going to the IITs and doing research if there was no competition.

I want to make thorough steps to create a system that will spur industry competition.

We can only compete in the world against competitors from Asia, the United States, or wherever if we look at unmet needs.

When you're in 45 markets, you take it on the chin here and there.

There's always competitors out there, one way or another.

Many first-time founders fail to understand the difference between the potential of the Total Addressable Market (TAM) and the very finite subsection they can hope to capture. No company ever captures the entire market they pioneer. Innovation doesn't happen in a vacuum, and others will jump in from the moment you've identified the potential.

I enjoy looking at other people's products and learning from them. We take all of our competitors very seriously, as you know. You have to respect Intel. But we have our own tricks up our sleeves.

You never quite know in business if what you are doing is the right or the wrong thing. Unfortunately, by the time you know the answer, someone has beaten you to it and you are out of business.