Anand Mahindra Quotes

Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it's harder to break out than ever.

Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.

In a maturing market it's not advisable to be always everybody's darling, because you get too thin.

But, on balance, we seized the marketplace. We've got a great infrastructure. And yes it's struggling in some areas because of some external factors and some internal factors.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

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

Business is a string of seemingly impossible problems looking for solutions. Each problem you solve creates a new barrier to entry for your next competitor.

Market expansion is not an opportunity. It is a necessity.

The biggest challenge to thriving in the marketplace is identifying the strategic moves that will keep us ahead of the competition.

When you compete with Wal-Mart, even if you think you've found a niche don't ever become complacent.

Well, as we built the business in the 1990's, as I said, I enjoyed that.

In the U.S., we didn't have scale, and without scale, it's difficult to operate.

And so if your competitors aren't growing, if there isn't a competitive reason to grow, and you want focus and discipline to add customers to existing stores, you adjust your strategy.

Two to three years down the road, other companies not on a model like Dell's will be in trouble.

What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground.

Competitive strategies is a concept or philosophy that's as American as apple pie.

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

Enterprises that depend on many rarely succeed.

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.

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.

We fail to boost our offshore production at our own expense.

I won't speak for the entertainment industry. I speak for Disney. I've seen people in the industry come to work every morning paranoid about what the other person or other company is doing. That means you're spending time and focus on somebody else's business instead of your own.

You have to do what the market requires of you... You either keep swimming, or you sink.

We got bigger, much scarier competitors. We ended up with Microsoft, a company with all the money in the world, the way I look at those guys. And IBM, another company that, historically, dwarfed us.

Sometimes, the startup game works in your favor just because you got in at the right time and right environment. Other times, you're a little too late entering an already crowded space. But startups with strong fundamentals withstand external conditions and come out ahead in good or bad times.