Satya Nadella Quotes

It's widely assumed that you can't compete with free, and that seems like a reasonable thing to think. But this has not been my experience.

If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production.

When you start losing market share, it's really tough to gain it back; you need the product portfolio and presence in many markets.

TSG is competing with Middle East, East Asia and Europe in offering prices that are either lower or at par with these markets.

Competing at full price is the way we like to do business, but we cannot ignore the promotional environment.

There's not many businesses where someone can come in and offer to cut the price in half and somebody doesn't think about shifting. But that's the nature of the ratings business.

A company's best advantage should be a quality product offered at the right price. That fair competition is what drives innovation.

There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.

The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.

I don't think I have to combat Airbnb. It is like comparing Tiffany to a shop that sells things for one dollar.

Get more competition into the New Hampshire marketplace, and then we'll find that there will be insurers that will compete on convenience as compared to cost.

First, we have to lower our costs to levels that are more competitive. This will prevent the lower-cost airlines from pushing us out of the markets we want to serve. We've made great progress on this front, but we need to keep pushing.

I think in just about any business the low cost competitor is always going to have an advantage.

Simplicity and sexiness, that's what people want. At a price that's not outrageous.

I deal in volume. To sell volume, it must be affordable. So that's my whole life, is to make it affordable.

Competition to the economist is predatory pricing to the business person.

I think any company should compete on the quality of their products, their prices, the novelty they can produce, their services, because that would be fair competition.

Hardware ultimately is a scale game, and it's a differentiation game. If you are literally selling products that are completely undifferentiated, like x86 servers, why would anybody pay you for that?

I never wanted to compete on price in my history because on price, you don't always win.

I look at companies as price-players or quality-players. The only way to go with J.Crew was quality.

The key to the generic-drug economic model is to keep entry prices low enough to attract multiple competitors.

Market share is key.

Not everyone can be successful selling fashion at $25,000 for a wedding outfit. Certain designers are able to do that. And there is only a certain amount of consumers who can do that. The real opportunity is in that $25 garment.

When a product is market driven, it should be able to pay for all its raw materials at market prices.

When similar products are on store shelves, price competition is inevitable. Nintendo has been trying to steer clear of that direction and create a market of our own.