Rachel Hollis Quotes

It's very difficult in the technology space when you have been leapfrogged to prosper again.

When I came into the mobile phone business, I was really the upstart who pretty much took the business, not quite by storm, but really made an impact on it quite early on. But it was from a position, really, of feeling that I was a last mover.

No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.

When you're a large company with significant market share, it's tempting to view market disruptions as a threat, but we view them as an opportunity.

You've got to keep reinventing. You'll have new competitors. You'll have new customers all around you.

In a globalized world, one application can spread like wildfire and there's only one winning company, which means you have to invest more than you've ever had.

History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies.

No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn't.

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.

Customers are willing to try new things, and if you can survive, you will have fewer competitors. It's like entering the eye of the storm. As long as you are strong enough to survive, you can end up in still water by yourself.

I think it's a competitive advantage that both Amazon and Google and other tech companies have over a lot of their counterparts. They take big risks and are pioneering new markets with the promise of big rewards. It's why Amazon is kind of reliably starting new businesses and opening kind of new frontiers.

If you want to be promoted into the first league of carmakers, then you can't just follow suit.

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.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

For us to be successful, we have to kick our competitors' butt.

Your innovation can create new winners and losers; or at the very least, make existing companies look fresh and innovative by partnering with you. Everyone wants to align with market makers.

If competitors don't like our two to one advantage, dominating market share with both SP and DS, well, I've got bad news. Because we just made it two and a half to one.

Innovation keeps me ahead of my competition. It means that my foes must adapt to me, not the other way around.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

Anytime there is a new, interesting space that comes along, there are a bunch of companies that enter the market.

The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.

Disruption is continuously afoot in every industry, but especially in autos. It is how Toyota, Nissan and Honda bloodied Detroit: They did not start their attack with Lexus, Infiniti and Acura, but with low-end subcompact models branded Corona, Datsun and CVCC.

In the technology world, you have to execute fast or you're out of business.

The trick is, a market has to be nonexistent when you start. If the market is large early on, you will have too many competitors. You have to make it large.

Today, you expand or you are expendable.