competition Quotes

Microsoft is always two years away from failure.

The mainstream is always under attack.

The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, is to do an outstanding job with information.

The potential financial reward for building the 'next Windows' is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.

Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out.

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.

The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.

Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will.

Microsoft does not dominate the software industry by any stretch of the imagination. We have lots of very able competitors who keep us constantly vigilant, and sometimes they beat us to the punch. Microsoft's success to date is based solely... ...

One thing people underestimate is how markets don't allow anyone to do anything except make better and better products. There's not much leeway. The world is a lot more competitive than most people think, particularly in a high-technology area. If... ...