Corporate Competition Quotes

Every new startup business creates new opportunities. It doesn't matter whether you have a new app for college students or a home medical device for senior citizens; there are other multibillion noncompetitive corporations that are spending millions of dollars trying to market their goods and services to your same audience.

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.

It's my job for Oracle, the number two software company in the world; to become the number one software company in the world. My job is to build better than the competition, sell those products in the marketplace and eventually supplant Microsoft and move from being number two to number one.

We find the instinct to shut out competition deep-rooted even among banks and corporations, among corner grocers and haberdasheries, among peanut vendors and shoeshine boys-and even among young ladies in search of a husband.

I have been competing against IBM my whole career. It's a good company, with good management and a good team.

The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their eventual downfall. Don't blame others for your own inadequacies.

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 hard to think that a $2 billion company with 4,300-plus people couldn't compete with six people in blue jeans.

… great contest for commercial supremacy.

One of the biggest lies in capitalism is that companies like competition. They don't. Nobody likes competition.

I won't speak for the entertainment industry. I speak for Disney. I've seen people in the industry come to work every morning paranoid about what the other person or other company is doing. That means you're spending time and focus on somebody else's business instead of your own.

Apple and Google will compete like crazy for our data because once they have it we'll be their customers forever.

Jobs would have ever have asserted that Bill Gates was not serious about technology. He was a huge pioneer in that world, albeit doing something quite different in approach from what Steve did. He was dismissive of Gates' foundation work as something he did to make himself feel better.

If a startup stays in Microsoft, it does not have a chance, because all it tries to do goes against what Microsoft is about.

What I will say is that business is not a nice area. And you might say that I am a business woman, but I'm not into cut-throat business moves.

Corporate competition is fierce, viewed by many as economic warfare where all is fair. But politics... now, this is something unique.

Because we're sponsored by competing breweries there is always competition. When we were both fighting for ninth or 10th place, nobody really cared except the two companies.

I love creating things, and as an entrepreneur, I've taken on quite a lot of major corporations and done well. Capitalism is the only system that works, but it has its flaws; for one, it brings great wealth to only a few people. That wealth obviously brings extreme responsibility.

Google, I think, in some ways, is more competitive and certainly is trying to build their own little version of Facebook.

Team, it turned out that Michael Dell wasn't perfect at predicting the future. Based on today's stock market close, Apple is worth more than Dell. Stocks go up and down and things may be different tomorrow but I thought it was worth a moment of reflection today.

The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.

Customers don't care about rivalries between corporations, they care about getting the best value for their money.

By making marijuana illegal, the agricultural people can't grab hold of it like they did with corn and wheat. So those companies are scrambling around trying to get hold of it, but they can't, because it's a cottage industry, and it will always be a cottage industry. Because the minute the big companies try to make it their own, like they did with soybeans...like Monsanto, they put their own patent on seeds, and you can't do that with marijuana.

I was ringside for Amazon and Google.

How exciting is it to come to work if the best you can do is trounce some other company that does roughly the same thing?