John Katzman Quotes

Good, bad or indifferent, if you are not investing in new technology, you are going to be left behind.

It's not about revenues: The fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line.

I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.

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

There's a smugness that goes with being a huge company. The big fish say, 'If it's so great, why didn't we invent it?' But how'd you like to be makin' buggy whips when cars came along?

Companies that are terrifying to a writer are companies like Amazon.

I believe confusion is good. Worldwide market leaders gain when there is confusion in the market.

Uber sees ride-sharing as a winner-takes-all war and subsequently is willing to offer below-market prices in a bid to crowd out the competition.

If you're a large organization, you may welcome a bit of regulation to keep the small guys out.

Customers won’t care about any particular technology unless it solves a particular problem in a superior way. And if you can’t monopolize a unique solution for a small market, you’ll be stuck with vicious competition.

I'm not in the camp that believes that Netflix is going to take over the world...technology makes it impossible to have a monopoly.

When money, rather than innovation or value, is your competitive advantage, that's when things get boring and stagnant, and monopolies take root.

Benchmark has threatened to block investments that could bolster Uber's competitive position in global markets by bargaining over board seats and its own control.

Most competition in Silicon Valley now heads toward there being one monopolistic winner.

Look at the computer industry. I've watched a lot of companies come and go, some that were right at the pinnacle of their success.

The real competitive advantage will come to countries and companies who differentiate their offerings through education, innovation, and productivity.

If you've got the power to raise prices without losing business to a competitor, you've got a very good business. And if you have to have a prayer session before raising the price by a tenth of a cent, then you've got a terrible business. I've been in both, and I know the difference.

Who can object to a monopoly when any new company, if it is built around a scientific nucleus, can create a new monopoly of its own by creating a wholly new field?

No company has a permanent consumer franchise. No one has the only game in town. The never-ending cycle of destruction and change inherent in a capitalist economy always provides new opportunities for those with determination, goals and concentration.

You want an idea that turns into a monopoly. But you can't get a monopoly, in a big market right away; too much competition for that.

Superior sales and distribution by itself can create a monopoly, even with no product differentiation. The converse is not true. No matter how strong your product-even if it easily fits into already established habits and anybody who tries it likes it immediately-you must still support it with a strong distribution plan.

When a technology, regardless of how different and difficult it is, sustains the trajectory of performance improvement, my research asserts that the leaders in the prior generation of technology are likely to end up on top of their industry at the end of the transition.

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

America is the largest investor in the technologies necessary to be able to say to people, 'You can grow your economy so people's standard of living can improve, and at the same time be good stewards of the environment'.

We do not believe in oversupplying the market. When you are a large company, you can afford to do it. When you are a small player, your flexibility gets reduced.