Sachin Bansal Quotes

I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.

Whenever you're the leader in any industry, you get more headlines.

The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior.

Great companies are built on great products.

It's not about market share. If you have a successful company, you will get your market share. But to get a successful company, what do you have to have? The same metrics of success that your customer does.

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.

People in retail banks are not smart. They have a business model that's quite difficult to not make money out of - but still they somehow manage it.

Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

I say at our management conferences that the amount Wal-Mart grows in just one year is the equivalent of Costco's size.

When I left Apple, it had $2 billion of cash. It was the most profitable computer company in the world - not just personal computers - and Apple was the number one selling computer.

My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.

I am honored to join the Under Armour Board, and look forward to seeing how a founder and CEO operates a dynamic and fast-growing company known for innovation and its competitive edge.

There are companies with management and companies with money. You can always find money. Management is the key to success in any business.

But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.

The U.S. market has the highest priority for Volkswagen.

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

Businesswise, everything's been good.

Patents have not been a positive force in stimulating innovation at Cisco. Competition has been the motivator; bringing new products to market in a timely manner is critical. Everything we have done to create new products would have been done even if we could not obtain patents

Business is Business.

People are going to copy your product if you build great stuff. Just because Yahoo has a search box doesn't make it Google.

If you ask me, 'So what is your business model?' Our business model's always about shifting to higher value opportunities.

I've never had difficulty dominating any market I've been in.

If you look at the numbers from 2002 to 2016, we have consistently been market leaders. We have followed a well-articulated strategy, and our focus is to continue that strategy.

Understand what you are acquiring and protect it at all costs. You are acquiring people and next-generation products. You are making an investment that together you can grow faster, make more profits, and take more market share.

Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.