Ted Waitt Quotes

Your most dangerous competitors are those that are most like you.

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.

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.

Businesses always have competitors nipping at their heels. Historically, cities have not viewed themselves as subject to that same type of competition. But that's wrong.

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

We respect all of our competitors, and when I talk about our competitors, all of our competitors for entertainment time and leisure time.

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

I use Facebook all the time. I'm not a believer that they're going to do everything on the Internet better than anyone else.

The Internet is all about accessing entertainment. Realistically, 50 to 80 percent of all traffic is people downloading stuff for free. If you can turn that huge market share into something that you can monetize, even if it is just with ads, you will end up making more money than with all other revenue streams combined.

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.

I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.

If people use Chrome, we make less money on our service and that's fine by us because that is fair competition. I wouldn't put Google on a pedestal for competition, but they aren't telling users not to use OpenDNS.

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.

We aren't into the consumer space because that space is largely dominated by search and advertising, and it has a consumer face to it.

We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we're still just starting.

The idea that Google, Yahoo, and eBay are getting a free ride is absolutely unfair criticism. We have to build out our own infrastructure. And we have to inter-connect to the public Internet.

A lot of it had to do with when it's released and what's out in the marketplace, what's its competition.

I don't really think anything Microsoft does puts pressure on Apple.

The packaged food business environment is very Darwinian. You're fighting for survival every year; you evolve and grow or you die. It's really that simple.

In the economic competition, in the technological competition, we are competitors; we are not allies.

Modern competition is often described as a fight of all against all.

Yahoo was Jerry Yang's baby. He did a great job creating the baby. Unfortunately, some of the key executives after the foundation of the company couldn't keep up with the technology innovation of the industry. They thought that Yahoo should become a media company.

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.

The fact is that our business is fundamentally really strong. We have a platform and a depth that no one in the tech industry has. This means we have competitors at every layer.

With tech companies, whoever's the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, 'Is this the end of them?' And - there's more - more times people think that's the case than it really is the case.