Les Brown Quotes

While 'Teachers' may have had its following, it was on late-night Channel Four, whereas 'EastEnders' was seen by millions and millions of people. I certainly don't have the cache to sell a programme like that, and certainly nobody's coming up and asking me to.

There's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be.

What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.

NBC programs great shows; it just doesn't have the eyeballs CBS does.

What's great about cable is that the ceiling of expectation is lowered because fewer people have to tune in for it to be a success. You don't need 23 million people a week like you do in broadcast.

The American television industry is a Darwinian environment where success is usually measured in inches, not yards. That is, for most TV media, audiences have gotten so small that one measures 'victories' in tenths of a point - as in, a 2.2 percent share is a great leap over a 2.1 percent share.

Everyone is struggling to compete with how people consume television these days.

The critical image... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.

My current goal is to change the way we think about antitrust and anti-monopoly.

If there wasn't any competition, I'd be very worried, because it would mean we were not doing very well.

I don't meet the competition, I destroy it.

I know there's a lot of guys who would love to see me fail. Well, good. Let 'em. I'm glad.

It is commonly the case with technologies that you can get the best insight about how they work by watching them fail.

Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.

I found that competition was supposed to be a menace and that a good manager circumvented his competitors by getting a monopoly by artificial means.

The important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail.

I love innovation, I love competing. I hate my competitors. You cannot be in the world of business when you don't have this consciousness of winning.

This is no longer a battle of devices, it is a war of ecosystems.

The main social responsibility for a company is to win.

And maybe the cereal makers by and large have learned to be less crazy about fighting for market share-because if you get even one person who's hell-bent on gaining market share.... For example, if I were Kellogg and I decided that I had to have 60% of the market, I think I could take most of the profit out of cereals. I'd ruin Kellogg in the process. But I think I could do it.

All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.

It still boils down to one thing: The left cannot beat Fox News in the arena of cable news. The media, the left cannot beat Fox News. The only option they have is to destroy it. Because they can't outcompete it as is evidenced by ratings day in and day out since 1996, when Fox debuted. The standard operating procedure for the left is not to level the playing field but to close it. It's to deny participation on the playing field, not level it. No tolerance. No fairness.

If you're going to fail, you'd rather fail early than fail late in general.

The TV season is a year-long thing now, and the networks are starting to look at it that way, thanks to cable, satellites, and competition.

It's one of the old show business axioms. No matter how successful you've been, there's always a younger and sexier seal coming along.