Steve Ballmer Quotes

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 matters.

Competition has always been good.

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.

The breakup was a good thing. It brought competition into a field where there hadn’t been any competition and that’s the American way. Competition brings down price and brings up quality.

Most companies in a capitalistic system compete mightily to obtain monopolistic positions so they can avoid capitalistic competition thereafter. Whenever a business person must compete for price, he tends to describe that derisively as a “commodity business” and tries to remedy the situation.

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

Competition is always good.

Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

Competition is good because we need to educate customers, and Ozon.ru itself will not be able to do it.

Domination and monopoly is the name of the game in the web marketplace.

They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.

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

What is “destructive competition” for producers is a bargain bonanza for consumers.

To control the American market is to own America.

Monopoly of one kind or another, indeed, seems to be the sole engine of the mercantile system.

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's a good thing.

Competition is always there.

Competition exists everywhere.

There's competition everywhere.

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

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

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