Alfred P. Sloan Quotes

Competition matters.

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

In business, what do we do? We compete.

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.

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

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

Volkswagen must continue to attack and make good use of its opportunities.

Practically every enterprise is threatened and put on the defensive as soon as it comes into existence.

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.

Competition is one of the most important drivers of innovation because you have to stay in the race. You have to think of something new, and if you don't, well, of course you should leave the market.

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

In the private sector, there is always innovation. There's always change. There's always improving productivity, and if you're not leading that, you'll be passed and ultimately go out of business. So there's an urgency to constantly update and renew and to rethink your enterprise.

Today, the competition is considerably more intense.

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.

If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd, haven't you?

It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.

You have to be willing to risk things; otherwise, somebody else will put you out of business.

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

Global competition is about winners and losers.

The packaged food business environment is very Darwinian. You're fighting for survival every year; you evolve and grow or you die. It's really that simple.

If companies don't think systemically enough - if they try to capture too much of the value - eventually, innovation moves somewhere else.

Within a market, organizations have interests distinct from and often antagonistic to the market processes that produced and sustain them.

The battle of competition is fought by the cheapening of commodities

What is really at stake here is the survival of the kind of economy under which this country has grown great, the free-enterprise system

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