Gabe Newell Quotes

Competition can never be eliminated from this industry. There is nothing wrong with it. It keeps you on your toes, making you work harder.

Healthy competition is very important in any industry. It keeps you on your toes and helps you grow.

We fully expect our competitors to join us in embracing open standards with their next redesigns.

There is a healthy competition as there would be in any business. But we do not spend our days thinking about what Marvel is doing.

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

The marketers can compete with free; it just has to be better. Look at bottled water if you don't believe me.

The problem with Myspace was always that it was never as strong a product as it needed to be. It left itself vulnerable to competition. It was only a matter of time before someone created something better.

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.

Someone is out there looking to put you out of business. Someone is out there who thinks they have a better idea than you have. A better solution than you have. A better or more efficient product than you have.

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.

If there's a car company, and you have another car company, you don't stop building your car and company because there are others.

What can we learn from the battle between data and design? What can we learn from the relationship between Google and Apple? Clearly no one school of thought is right: Apple and Google are both wildly successful and profitable companies that changed the world.

A company's best advantage should be a quality product offered at the right price. That fair competition is what drives innovation.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

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

When you improve your product so it does the customer's job better, then you gain market share.

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

It's really hard to compete with Apple on pure coolness, and if you do, you're probably going to use some of the things they pioneered.

In the long run all producers are forced to use the most efficient methods or give place to others who do.

A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.

It's competition that forces companies to get out of their complacency.

Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.

When we look at investing, we always think about 'how defensible is this, how likely is it that somebody is going to copy this.' E-commerce tends to be something easy to copy because it's execution.

I think there is a niche for every market.

In America, when you bring an idea to market, you usually have several months before competition pops up, allowing you to capture significant market share. In China, you can have hundreds of competitors within the first hours of going live. Ideas are not important in China - execution is.