Quotes About Market

Who is my biggest competitor? AOL, Microsoft, and AT&TAtHome.

If Microsoft had never existed... The industry would probably be very fragmented.

Microsoft is in a lot of the same businesses that Google is in.

Intel's a great company, and Microsoft is a great company. Everybody seems to do a lot better when there is competition.

Africa is not for the weak-hearted: infrastructure issues are there. The middle class is absent in most of the countries. We have to cater to the low end of the market to grow.

The annals of business are filled with stories of companies that thought they had it made and could milk their enterprises without having to bother about improving their products or services. It's amazing how fast they found their markets disappearing.

We looked at the customer segment that we want to go after, the Millennials, which everybody wants to go after. They are not buying linear TV.

Coming from the U.S., you tend to look at one homogeneous market with 350 million people. But in Europe, every country has its own customs and laws.

The hard thing about the book world is that you never know whether 10 people or a million people will find it interesting.

Are there a million people out there who would love a Joey Cook album? I think there probably are.

In a company like Gucci, you can lose millions and millions in a second.

One of the changes I'm driving within Nokia is to adopt what we call 'the challenger mindset.' Let's understand that we have to fight, we have to fight our way through the difficulties, we have to listen to consumers, we have to both deliver what they need and also have some creativity and insight and deliver what the don't yet know they need.

At first, I didn't want to do unicorns. The artist in me said no. Then I thought, 'Wait a minute: this is commercial art. Let's do what's going to sell.'

The dot-com and housing bubbles can both be explained by artificial credit expansion, say such economists.

we should abolish the Fed altogether, since in the view of these economists it is entirely superfluous to a market economy.

Marx set forth a classic statement of inherent class antagonism on the market

Though when at home their countenances varied with the seasons, their market faces all the year round were glowing little fires.

It sped her toward the idea that Dr. Lecter's taste for rarefied things, things in a small market, might be the monster's dorsal fin, cutting the surface and making him visible.

When it comes down to it, what are being traded in a capitalist economy are property rights—the ownership rights in goods and services.

We who live in capitalist countries tend to take all of this—property rights, free-market pricing, entrepreneurship—for granted, but every socialist country that has ever existed in the world has taken away these key ingredients of capitalism and has consequently created an economic catastrophe.

What is to be learned from this case scenario? Choose a financial advisor who is endorsed by an enlightened accountant and/or his clients with investment portfolios that in the long run outpace the market. If you don't have an accountant, hire one. Another

All too often high-income-producing UAWs spend countless hours studying the market—but not the stock market. They can tell you the names of the top auto dealers, but not the top investment advisors. They can tell you how to shop and spend. But they can't tell you how to invest. They know the styles, prices, and availability at various car dealers. But they know little or nothing about the various values of equity market offerings. As

Nearly all (95 percent) of the millionaires we surveyed own stocks; most have 20 percent or more of their wealth in publicly traded stocks. Yet you would be wrong to assume that these millionaires actively trade their stocks. Most don't follow the ups and downs of the market day by day. Most don't call their stock brokers each morning to ask how the London market did. Most don't trade stocks in response to daily headlines in the financial media. Do

millionaire has told me that true diversity has much to do with controlling one's investments; no one can control the stock market. But you can, for example, control your own business, private investments, and money you lend to private parties. Not at any time during the past thirty years have I found that the typical millionaire had more than 30 percent of his wealth invested in publicly traded stocks. More often it is in the low-to-mid-20-p