Joy Mangano Quotes

I think we are living in a time where the consumer has lots of choices, whether it's coffee, newspapers or whatever it is. And there is parity in the market place, and as a result of that, the consumer is beginning to make decisions, not just on what things cost and the convenience of it.

I actually don't invest in anything that is social, mobile, deals or ad networks simply because those are areas where there are so many players and so many other smart people in the space, I feel like I don't have a competitive advantage. So I tend to go after things that are e-commerce, like healthcare.

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

I'd never buy something, even if it's a great brand, that is a competitor to something I already own; that's insane.

Apple makes really good products, and Samsung makes really good products. It's really a two-horse race. Where I think Apple is exposed: the price points of Apple's products are just so high by comparison with Samsung's.

Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.

Competition is good because we need to educate customers, and Ozon.ru itself will not be able to do it.

How do people know what they want until we show them?

For us, just serving the market in the US and the UK, we can barely make the math work on an interesting business. My sense is that our clones and copycats are very manual. If they make it work, then congratulations to them!

When lots of stores compete, the result is a combination of better prices for you, better deals for developers, and more investment in new content and innovation.

I want to make thorough steps to create a system that will spur industry competition.

Sure, but competition is good for the user.

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

We do not believe in oversupplying the market. When you are a large company, you can afford to do it. When you are a small player, your flexibility gets reduced.

The reality is that we've seen the last of any serious price wars for a long time. I don't think any of the others could afford it, certainly not on a long-term basis.

The net neutrality game is to make everybody the same so that there's no difference and the prices are the same and if these Millennials got their way nothing would cost anything. But it's classic. This is a great illustration. Net neutrality is being stood upside down which is good because it's pro-competition, it offers customers options.

You've to make consumers smart. An e-commerce portal doesn't sell a product at cheaper rates, instead an offline shop sells it at a costlier prices.

When you get down to the meat and potatoes of genuine capitalism, it is cutthroat, vicious competition, and the consumer always benefits in the end.

The sharper the competition, the better it serves its social function to improve economic production.

There are millions of business ideas out there but only a tiny percentage of businesses succeed.

You want an idea that turns into a monopoly. But you can't get a monopoly, in a big market right away; too much competition for that.

The market and the consumer and idea trump the system.

Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.

You have to find a small market in which you can get a monopoly and then quickly expand.

It is better to have a cat and mouse game where the cat has the upper hand than a cat and mouse game where the mice are ruling. Because the latter means that the market participants are given free range. That was actually the big misconception of our national hero Ronald Reagan, who always talked about the magic of the market.