Mike Davidson Quotes

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.

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

If you don't have the best product, you're not going to make it in open-source.

Every day, you get up, and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.

I think competition is good. It finally delivers the best value to the customer, and I think it keeps all the players on their toes.

Almost every move in the market is either a move to align with where Cisco is going or to align to compete against us or to utilize that technology.

Many first-time founders fail to understand the difference between the potential of the Total Addressable Market (TAM) and the very finite subsection they can hope to capture. No company ever captures the entire market they pioneer. Innovation doesn't happen in a vacuum, and others will jump in from the moment you've identified the potential.

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

Today, the competition is considerably more intense.

Sometimes your worst competitors are the ones which are dying because they do stupid things.

It's competition that forces companies to get out of their complacency.

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.

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

I think the rise of A.I. is bigger than the rise of mobile. Large companies are sometimes as worried about startups as startups are about large companies. Ultimately, it will be about who delivers the best service or product.

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.

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

Competition matters.

I have no problem with money coming in and spawning competition. I am honest enough to admit that Mahindra & Mahindra would not have been going to the IITs and doing research if there was no competition.

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

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

Intel's a great company, and Microsoft is a great company. Everybody seems to do a lot better when there is competition.

You never quite know in business if what you are doing is the right or the wrong thing. Unfortunately, by the time you know the answer, someone has beaten you to it and you are out of business.

Our competitors aren’t taking our market share with devices; they are taking our market share with an entire ecosystem.

What can we learn from the battle between data and design? What can we learn from the relationship between Google and Apple? Clearly no one school of thought is right: Apple and Google are both wildly successful and profitable companies that changed the world.

One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open; today, in the world I come from, the free software and open-source world, Microsoft is not generally viewed as open; they're viewed as proprietary.