Philip Greenspun Quotes

Here's a good rule of thumb: don't worry about a competitor at all, until they're actually beating you with a real shipped product.

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.

You need to understand the market, know how you can differentiate yourself in it, and grasp the price and the functional differentiation competitive points that are going to allow you to be disruptive.

We can only compete in the world against competitors from Asia, the United States, or wherever if we look at unmet needs.

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

The NXT environment is so competitive.

I study my competition for at least an hour a day. I get on the internet, look at what they doing, then I look at ways to defeat them.

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

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

The most interesting information I can have about a competitor is the cost.

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

The competition principle does not mean a competitive edge, comrades

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

Market share is key.

I enjoy looking at other people's products and learning from them. We take all of our competitors very seriously, as you know. You have to respect Intel. But we have our own tricks up our sleeves.

We compete with Dell and HP. Now, we are going to compete with Sony and Best Buy. Are we going to be like Best Buy? No. Are we going to be a small Dell? No. We are going to be uniquely Gateway.

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

The best mental effort in the game of business is concentrated on the major problem of securing the consumer's dollar before the other fellow gets it.

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

Our economic competitors ... are eating us for lunch, and we can get in the game or not. We can be at the table, or we can be on the table.

If competitors don't like our two to one advantage, dominating market share with both SP and DS, well, I've got bad news. Because we just made it two and a half to one.

Focus on your business strengths and keep its weaknesses away from the competition or public.

In order to become a success, a business doesn't just have to do well, it has to to better than its competitors. Being number one isn't just about bragging rights. Often it means the difference between prospering and merely hanging on.

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.