Jesse Schell Quotes

Microsoft was not a mysterious, strange entity. You put your PC on and there's an ad for them.

The most interesting information I can have about a competitor is the cost.

If you bet on Microsoft, you are not going to ask anymore, 'Hey, where is the innovation?' The challenge going forward is how do we keep up with it.

Not all of Microsoft's businesses are successful, but they have every technology possible.

I'm not only a fan of Apple products, I have stock in the company. I think Steve Jobs has started one of the greatest corporations in the world.

One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open; today, in the world I come from, the free software and open-source world, Microsoft is not generally viewed as open; they're viewed as proprietary.

I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.

Great companies are built on great products.

PepsiCo is a $63 billion company. Half the company is snacks, and half the company is beverages. We have a glorious snacks business and a glorious beverage business. We are extremely profitable. We are growing.

Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.

There's more at risk in what happens in Microsoft than I could ever bet on a poker table.

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.

Your most dangerous competitors are those that are most like you.

John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.

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

We’re far behind [Microsoft]. They are 3 time bigger than we are. They have a monopoly and we don’t—darnit!

I have started many companies now worth more than $100 million. So I know a little about business.

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

For decades, I've spoken of McDonald's as one of the premier examples of how to build a company, scale it, and ultimately sell it.

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.

The biggest challenge to thriving in the marketplace is identifying the strategic moves that will keep us ahead of the competition.

I have no problem with money coming in and spawning competition. I am honest enough to admit that Mahindra & Mahindra would not have been going to the IITs and doing research if there was no competition.

Of course I have other passions... but my real investment obviously without a second thought is LVMH and what my father created.

People think about their business instead of their products.

Capital never builds great products.