Julius Erving Quotes

There is a healthy competition as there would be in any business. But we do not spend our days thinking about what Marvel is doing.

It is a business. I know we, as athletes and owners and people involved with the NBA, never want to say that it's a business and things like that. It is a business.

The PC is successful because we're all benefiting from the competition with each other. If Twitter comes along, our games benefit. If Nvidia makes better graphics technology, all the games are going to shine. If we come out with a better game, people are going to buy more PCs.

We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets.

Bebo has an opportunity to prove its products and services. Bebo plays in a very competitive space; it has big market share in specific countries. An AIM profile vs. a Bebo profile are very different experiences.

Competition can never be eliminated from this industry. There is nothing wrong with it. It keeps you on your toes, making you work harder.

In business, what do we do? We compete.

All things can be done by every company in the world. Apple builds a phone, and so does Samsung. It's not about being different but about being better at what you do.

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.

Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.

The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior.

In some industry markets, high quality can be tied to making more money, but I am sure by now all of us know the computer industry is not like that.

In a globalized world, one application can spread like wildfire and there's only one winning company, which means you have to invest more than you've ever had.

It's competition that forces companies to get out of their complacency.

It's easier to build a business around a first-class product, even if it's a more expensive product to produce.

The sports apparel industry was dominated by the big shoe companies. But there was a void in apparel and I decided to fill it.

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

A lot of people love Oreos. So their manufacturer is making money. That means more dividends for shareholders.

The best companies are the ones that offer their products for free.

The marketers can compete with free; it just has to be better. Look at bottled water if you don't believe me.

Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

If you want to be promoted into the first league of carmakers, then you can't just follow suit.

Business is Business.

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.