Diane Nelson Quotes

You've got to remember there's intense competition between Microsoft and Amazon.

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.

We’re far behind [Microsoft]. They are 3 time bigger than we are. They have a monopoly and we don’t—darnit!

The competition principle does not mean a competitive edge, comrades

Sometimes, for businesses, competition can be inconvenient, because competition means that the race is never over, the game is never won. No matter how well you were doing in the past, there's always someone who are out there wanting to take your place. So the temptation to avoid competition is powerful. It's rooted in motives as old as Adam and Eve: in greed for yet more money, in fear of losing your position in the market and all the benefits it brings.

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

All things can be done by every company in the world. Apple builds a phone, and so does Samsung. It's not about being different but about being better at what you do.

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.

Today, the competition is considerably more intense.

It's easier to build a business around a first-class product, even if it's a more expensive product to produce.

All competitors are fierce competitors; Vodafone is the world's second largest company. We fight it each day. Idea Cellular is big and successful, too. Competition is competition; we are used to it.

It's really hard to run a business against somebody who is not acting as if it were in business.

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.

If you do things with a certain type of result and cause a certain type of reaction or effect, then you increase your market value. It's very much a competition for the entertainment dollar, and that's never been more clearly evident than in today's NBA game.

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

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.

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.

When a market isn't in transition, gaining market share is hard - you're fighting to take one or two points of share from competitors.

The individual Siemens businesses must be able to keep up with the specialists in the industry and be at least as good as their strongest competitors.

In business, what do we do? We compete.

I enjoy looking at other people's products and learning from them. We take all of our competitors very seriously, as you know. You have to respect Intel. But we have our own tricks up our sleeves.

Tomorrow I will have new competitors such as Google, Microsoft, and Facebook coming into my garden. I'd rather focus on the competition of tomorrow than combine with the competition of today.

When I broke in, in 1957, it was wide open. Now you're up against strong competition.

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