Markus Persson Quotes

When regulations restricting competition are relaxed, nobody's market share is protected. If telephone companies can offer video programming, cable revenue will surely drop.

My worldview says that competition is the consumer's best friend.

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.

I was first in line for the iPhone, but I'm not a fanboy of any company - I'm in favor of anything that's best of breed.

Any country that wants to lower its mobile phone rates, all they need to do is bring in an aggressive player.

The world has become rapidly more competitive.

Only a certain number of people go to a store over the period of a year. When a person sees my record on the shelf, it eliminates someone else's record from being sold. It's about continuing to try to find new ways to sell records.

If people use Chrome, we make less money on our service and that's fine by us because that is fair competition. I wouldn't put Google on a pedestal for competition, but they aren't telling users not to use OpenDNS.

I think we are living in a time where the consumer has lots of choices, whether it's coffee, newspapers or whatever it is. And there is parity in the market place, and as a result of that, the consumer is beginning to make decisions, not just on what things cost and the convenience of it.

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

Get more competition into the New Hampshire marketplace, and then we'll find that there will be insurers that will compete on convenience as compared to cost.

I've always believed that competition is good for consumers and good for businesses.

I'm the only one who was predicting the Nintendo Wii would beat Sony's PlayStation 3.

I don't really think anything Microsoft does puts pressure on Apple.

They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.

Competition to the economist is predatory pricing to the business person.

there are times when we need to step in to make sure that competition works the way it should. By doing that, we help the market to work fairly, because competition gives consumers the power to demand a fair deal. It means that companies know that if they cannot offer good prices or the service that's expected, well, the customers will go somewhere else.

Competition is good for consumers. It provides more choices at better prices.

I believe in the principle that if you have more competition, it will drive down the prices.

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.

The key to the generic-drug economic model is to keep entry prices low enough to attract multiple competitors.

When you sell cars in the U.S., it forces you to be the most competitive.

Pepsi and Coke have to co-exist on the shelf for the long term because if they pull each other down, no one's going to drink carbonated soft drinks anymore.

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

If you look across the economy, if you have multiple players in an industry, you have more customization, more innovation, greater choice for consumers. The more you have consolidation, the less likely you are to invest in innovation. It becomes all about driving down cost and mass production. And that's not good for innovation in an industry.