Charles Revson 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.

It is good to have competition because that helps you survive in the long run.

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.

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.

The phone space is tough because it is consolidated.

In business everyone is out to grab, to fight, to win. Either you are the under or the over dog. It is up to you to be on top.

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

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.

Modern competition is often described as a fight of all against all.

Let the madmen duke it out and then jump the one or two of them that are left.

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

Sometimes, for businesses, competition can be inconvenient, because competition means that the race is never over, the game is never won. No matter how well you were doing in the past, there's always someone who are out there wanting to take your place. So the temptation to avoid competition is powerful. It's rooted in motives as old as Adam and Eve: in greed for yet more money, in fear of losing your position in the market and all the benefits it brings.

Bayer's planned acquisition of Monsanto promises to increase concentration in both the seed and agrochemical markets.

Every industry, as it comes to a certain level of maturity, there is consolidation. In that consolidation, some fall, but the men will always be there. It is the boys that get sloughed, I would say.

Competition exists everywhere.

Competition matters.

stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing.

All the shy people are doomed! Natural selection favors the loud and the aggressive

It's like the animal kingdom. Adapt or go extinct.

The American Beauty Rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it. This is not an evil tendency in business. It is merely the working-out of a law of nature and a law of God.

Life for the strongest. There is no sympathy for the slain, only admiration for the winner's strength.

Everybody's trying to be the biggest, because if you're not the biggest, you don't survive.

Life on earth is hard. Competition for the necessities of life is fierce. How ridiculous to believe that the law of harsh survival would not be true elsewhere, or that it would be negated by the progress of technology in an advanced civilization.

In the new world, it is not the big fish which eats the small fish, it's the fast fish which eats the slow fish.

It is still an open question as to whether mankind or insects shall ultimately inherit the earth. It is my opinion that mankind ... has about a 50-50 chance...