Market Shifts Quotes

Every market is in transition.

Audiences are shifting. Platforms are shifting. Ages are shifting. It's better to be in charge of change than to have to react to change.

It's very important for a brand to have an identity through the years, but it's very important as well to evolve because times change so fast.

I work a lot on skill demands and changes in labor markets having to do with technology and with trade as well.

As an investment banker, I'm in the cross-flow of information and the changes that are taking place in capital markets.

Clients are becoming more global; they're realizing that markets are more interconnected. It's no longer the local regional clients buying the local regional flavors. It's everybody asking for everything.

It only takes a handful of sizeable companies to reach a tipping point and to transform markets.

Any of our businesses will not exist in the form that is today, will not exist in the same form one year later, two years later... We have to worry about the disruptions in the business models and the practices.

I think I've changed my business strategy every year since 2003. You have to be watching the horizon constantly. The rug has been pulled out from under our feet so many times.

The markets are always changing, and the successful trader needs to adapt to these changes.

Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous and incapable of being transformed into anything else. We did not foresee that or the magnitude of these phenomena.

If I've learned anything as an economic analyst, it is that the stock market and economic winds can shift by the hour.

You've got to keep reinventing. You'll have new competitors. You'll have new customers all around you.

There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.

Our success at Cisco has been defined by how we anticipate, capture, and lead through market transitions. Over the years, I've watched iconic companies disappear - Compaq, Sun Microsystems, Wang, Digital Equipment - as they failed to anticipate where the market was heading.

You have to take a broader view and realize this is an industry like any other - telecoms, Railroads; they went through consolidation. Why shouldn't the computer industry be any different? This shouldn't have been a surprise to anybody but it seemed to be, and a lot of people thought I was nuts when I said these things. And that's why they are alone as a consolidator.

I think traditional supermarkets have to pay attention to the fact that America is more and more conscious of lifestyle.

The habits of the American consumer are changing; that's a reality.

Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly.

Businesses are among the first to see changes in the labor market, but few countries have the necessary close relationship between business and educators to ensure this information reaches the education system.

So much has changed in our business. E-books, that's been one of the principal developments. There has been also the failure of Borders and the rise of Amazon, just to name two others.

We will export more to Latin America than Europe in the next 10 years, and we already export more to Asia than to Europe. That was unthinkable 30 years ago.

We're going through a period of retrenchment as the dynamics of the playing field are changing.

In any business that grows big on one business model, transitions can throw everything in the air.

Traditionally, in the technology industry, companies need to re-invent themselves every 3-7 years to survive. If the company misses one transition, it can still recover, but if it misses two, it is usually fatal.