Market Pressure Quotes

Going public today is fraught with peril on many levels. One is earnings guidance. If you miss guidance, the stock price becomes very volatile. Short sellers can put a tremendous downward pressure on the stock.

I think competition is good. It finally delivers the best value to the customer, and I think it keeps all the players on their toes.

The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace.

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

Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.

The reality of life is, if you have a bagel shop and everybody is pouring into the doughnut shop across the street, if you want to stay in business, you start selling doughnuts.

One of the symptoms of an absence of innovation is the fact that you lose your jobs. Everyone else catches up with you. They can do what you do better than you or cheaper than you. And in a multinational corporate-free market enterprise, it is the company's obligation to take the factory to a place where they can make it more cheaply.

Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another city, but with millions of businesses around the world.

Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

I believe in the value of paranoia. Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing left.

I do like to keep abreast of what the hardcore vocal members of the comics-reading audience are talking about on Internet message boards, but there are so few of them, as a percentage of the buying audience, that I can't allow their opinions to dictate story direction.

Starting my own business was kind of a wakeup call in a number of different ways. I had to meet a payroll every week, and we had to satisfy customers, and we had competitors that we had to compete with in order to have those customers come into our stores, and we had to compete with other employers for our employees.

I don't feel the pressure of the market - otherwise, I wouldn't be able to work.

It's easy to fall into the trap of just cranking out things that are good enough to sell.

We fully expect our competitors to join us in embracing open standards with their next redesigns.

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

If we get better our customers will demand we get bigger.

Within neoliberal narratives, the message is clear: Buy/ sell/ or be punished.

These two entities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are not facing any kind of financial crisis. The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.

Competition is one click away. Innovation happens everywhere... you better have a culture asking for a voice.

Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.

Market expansion is not an opportunity. It is a necessity.

The markets want to force us to do certain things. That we won't do. Politicians have to make sure that we're unassailable, that we can make policy for the people.

In reality, no one on Wall Street cares about anything except performance.