John Landgraf Quotes

To control the American market is to own America.

I've never had difficulty dominating any market I've been in.

Domination and monopoly is the name of the game in the web marketplace.

Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.

A monopoly is like running on firm ground. Nothing compels you to move, but if you do, you move forward. The faster you run, the more scenery you see - so you have some incentive to run fast.

Of course I'm not stupid enough to think that we could take on WWE head-on and win, because they're too big of a monster.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two big players, and end in a winner-take-all situation.

The way companies hang on to their marketshare is by being scared.

Big companies often use their leverage to take stakes in would-be suppliers, especially in the technology business.

You've got to figure out how you're going to come in and significantly impact and redefine a market such that you become a market share leader in it.

But they are also better, our competitors are better because Wal-Mart exists.

We're gonna totally sell out and try to dominate the world.

Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate.

Publishing had been successful where there had been natural geographic monopolies.

As we have seen again and again, when Amazon doesn't get the economic conditions from suppliers that it seeks, it simply goes its own way. In the book business, that has meant publishing its own titles under the various Kindle imprints. Now it's making diapers.

If Wanda can control more than 20 per cent of the world's three most important film markets - the United States, Europe and China - then it will have an empire with great voice in the industry.

I say at our management conferences that the amount Wal-Mart grows in just one year is the equivalent of Costco's size.

Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.

When you compete with Wal-Mart, even if you think you've found a niche don't ever become complacent.

I don't think there is any franchise more powerful than ours around securing the consumer experience and we will not concede that to anyone including Microsoft.

He who puts ... a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest.

You've got to remember there's intense competition between Microsoft and Amazon.

We got bigger, much scarier competitors. We ended up with Microsoft, a company with all the money in the world, the way I look at those guys. And IBM, another company that, historically, dwarfed us.

Apple is a failure because they missed social? Nobody would say that, because they are having great success.