Julie Wainwright Quotes

When you compete with Wal-Mart, even if you think you've found a niche don't ever become complacent.

There's competition everywhere.

From our perspective, there's been a price war in the PC industry since we opened for business in 1985.

If there's a car company, and you have another car company, you don't stop building your car and company because there are others.

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.

Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two big players, and end in a winner-take-all situation.

With a global society hungry for luxury, distribution and supply chains are now as important for executives as a hands-on feel for products.

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.

But they are also better, our competitors are better because Wal-Mart exists.

Today, the competition is considerably more intense.

What corporations fear is the phenomenon now known, rather inelegantly, as 'commoditization.' What the term means is simply the conversion of the market for a given product into a commodity market, which is characterized by declining prices and profit margins, increasing competition, and lowered barriers to entry.

The competition is pretty rough these days.

As we have seen again and again, when Amazon doesn't get the economic conditions from suppliers that it seeks, it simply goes its own way. In the book business, that has meant publishing its own titles under the various Kindle imprints. Now it's making diapers.

All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.

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

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.

When we look at investing, we always think about 'how defensible is this, how likely is it that somebody is going to copy this.' E-commerce tends to be something easy to copy because it's execution.

I think right now the jury is out on where and how much profit is available in the consumer electronics industry, because if you look at the current consumer electronics players, the biggest ones on the planet struggle to make profit consistently.

If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.

I think there is a niche for every market.

U.K. companies are in very international and very competitive markets. If you look at PC penetration in the U.K., it is very similar to the United States market.

I don't think Yahoo can be Facebook tomorrow, and don't think Yahoo wants to be Facebook.

We don't believe the market can be dominated by one company in e-commerce in China - namely Alibaba. The Chinese market is very wide and deep, with a huge population.

There is a clear goal and it isn't to make money. The goal is to desperately try to make the best products we can. We are not naive - if you trust it, people like it, they buy it and we make money. This is a consequence.

Apple and Samsung are selling in such high volumes, and they're vertically integrated more and more, that it's very, very hard for anyone to compete against Apple and Samsung in the high-volume part of the smartphone or tablet market.