Lakshmi Mittal Quotes

Cisco presents our biggest challenge in the firewall market for the fact that they have such a large percentage of market share. Displacement of an entrenched incumbent is always a challenge.

At Tatas, we believe that if we are not among the top three in an industry, we should look seriously at what it would take to become one of the top three players.. or think about exiting the industry

The reality is that we've seen the last of any serious price wars for a long time. I don't think any of the others could afford it, certainly not on a long-term basis.

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

Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two big players, and end in a winner-take-all situation.

But they are also better, our competitors are better because Wal-Mart exists.

Today, the competition is considerably more intense.

For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.

If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.

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.

I don't think it's good in any business for anyone to have a monopoly. On the other hand, you need to have size to get costs down.

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.

Of course I'm not stupid enough to think that we could take on WWE head-on and win, because they're too big of a monster.

If you're a large organization, you may welcome a bit of regulation to keep the small guys out.

We have been told many times that we have become too big, but these are things that only someone who has no idea of the size of the competition can say. We are too small.

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.

In a commodity business, it's very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.

We've got a great value proposition against Chromebooks, we are not ceding the market to anyone.

Competition matters.

I want to make thorough steps to create a system that will spur industry competition.

Small companies tend to go out of business. Large ones don't.

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

When you're in 45 markets, you take it on the chin here and there.

There are many people who think we had the first-mover advantage. But actually, when Uber came to India, Ola was doing only 2,000 rides per day. We had less than half a million dollars of funding.

There's always competitors out there, one way or another.