Quotes About Market

Competition is only good up to a point. When supply exceeds demand

stop looking to the competition. Value-innovate and let the competition worry about you.

Focus on innovating at value, not positioning against competitors

Blue ocean shift is a systematic process to move your organization from cutthroat markets with bloody competition—what we think of as red oceans full of sharks—to wide-open blue oceans, or new markets devoid of competition, in a way that brings your people along.

Value innovation is the cornerstone of blue ocean strategy. We call it value innovation because instead of focusing on beating the competition, you focus on making the competition irrelevant by creating a leap in value for buyers and your company, thereby opening up new and uncontested market space.

innovative ideas will be profitable only if they are linked to what buyers are willing to pay for.

Blue ocean strategy is not about being first to market. Rather it's about being first to get it right by linking innovation to value.

Value innovation is the cornerstone of blue ocean strategy

As companies compete to embrace customer preferences through finer segmentation, they often risk creating too-small target markets.

One way to make a fortune is to sell a necessity that is low in cost and repeats.

Failure of management to plan for the future and to foresee problems has brought about waste of manpower, of materials, and of machine-time, all of which raise the manufacturer's cost and price that the purchaser must pay. The consumer is not always willing to subsidize this waste. The inevitable result is loss of market. Loss of market begets unemployment.

Loss of market, and resulting unemployment, are not foreordained. They are not inevitable. They are man-made.

I'm very surprised at that, yes, because there were many chances for it to be in Germany once the syndication market started and it continually just did not happen.

There is general agreement among researchers that nearly all stock pickers, whether they know it or not-and few of them do-are playing a game of chance.

Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive.

The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market.

Another misconception is that an order is canceled when you hit 'cancel' on your computer. But, the fact is it's canceled only when the market gets the cancellation.

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.

Experts agree that the best type of computer for your individual needs is one that comes on the market about two days after you actually purchase some other computer.

Reality bites. Micron underlines that despite the market run-up recently, there's still no confidence about growth and earnings.

When I started at [Nina] Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.

Make sure you have the courage to stay true to your convictions and not let the market affect your emotions.

Workers and their families may starve to death in the New World Order of economic rationality, but diamond necklaces are cheaper in elegant New York shops, thanks to the miracle of the market.

There used to be a middle class here – recently. We also get reports that in the past, Gazan flower shipments to Europe were delayed for two weeks at the Erez crossing for security inspections. You can imagine the value of two-week-old cut flowers in the European market, so that market dried up. And then the bulldozers come and take out people's vegetable farms and gardens. What is left for people? Tell me if you can think of anything. I can't.