Peter Thiel Quotes

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

Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two big players, and end in a winner-take-all situation.

Publishing had been successful where there had been natural geographic monopolies.

Domination and monopoly is the name of the game in the web marketplace.

Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.

To control the American market is to own America.

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.

Our goal is not to be number one. Our aim is to be the only one.

You have to find a small market in which you can get a monopoly and then quickly expand.

In business, competition is never as healthy as total domination.

I found that competition was supposed to be a menace and that a good manager circumvented his competitors by getting a monopoly by artificial means.

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

We could be the biggest pantyhose seller in America, but we don't want to weaken the link in shoppers' minds between Home Depot and do-it-yourself projects.

The way companies hang on to their marketshare is by being scared.

Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.

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.

We're gonna totally sell out and try to dominate the world.

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

I learnt the hard way about positioning in business, about catering to the right segments.

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

They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers of the world.

Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you don't know what you're selling, and it's probably not going to be a good experience.

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

Most companies in a capitalistic system compete mightily to obtain monopolistic positions so they can avoid capitalistic competition thereafter. Whenever a business person must compete for price, he tends to describe that derisively as a “commodity business” and tries to remedy the situation.

Sir, I did not create a monopoly. Nor did I cheat anyone. I simply had the foresight to bid low and take a loss the first couple of years, with a long view in mind. The only thing I am guilty of is running a successful company.