Frank H. Easterbrook Quotes

As long as you keep doing the right thing and have the best product, you can beat the bigger company.

We have found in a long life that one competitor is frequently enough to ruin a business.

Monopoly is the condition of every successful business.

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

Most of what we've done at SurveyMonkey is create a market, which I would say is much harder than trying to enter a market that already exists. But if you get it right, it can become a great business.

The trick is, a market has to be nonexistent when you start. If the market is large early on, you will have too many competitors. You have to make it large.

We, we - as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.

Koch Industries is an amazing business that has succeeded by building a product that customers love dearly. The folks who run Koch are very clear. They would love to have government just get out of the way and allow companies to compete, whether in their particular sectors or other sectors. They are true believers in small government.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry.

No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.

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.

I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.

When you look at a company that's already succeeded or is at the very top of its game, it isn't necessarily when it's executing well. It tends to be peacetime - you've defeated the competition, you have the highest margins, the highest multiple.

There's a smugness that goes with being a huge company. The big fish say, 'If it's so great, why didn't we invent it?' But how'd you like to be makin' buggy whips when cars came along?

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

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.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

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

We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.

Market share is key.

We've got a great value proposition against Chromebooks, we are not ceding the market to anyone.

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

No company has a permanent consumer franchise. No one has the only game in town. The never-ending cycle of destruction and change inherent in a capitalist economy always provides new opportunities for those with determination, goals and concentration.

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.