Business Strategy Quotes

"You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die." "Productize yourself" "The ability to change faster than your competition purely, purely as a function of the ability to get feedback from the market and respond to it, that iterative process—we think is magical" "Technology is always evolving, and companies need to fundamentally innovate and change themselves to keep up" "Before dreaming about the future or marking plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you as entrepreneurs" "No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long-term if you don’t have a sufficiently good product" "The best way to look at any business is from the standpoint of the clients" "You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best companies do all three" "We don't build services to make money; we make money to build better services" "Being effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people's attention and building trust." "Google is not a conventional company, and we do not intend to become one" "Retention is the game." "Warren Buffett told me once and one of the rare times by the way he ever advised me directly that it's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price." "Ultimately, success can only come if you are able to find a way to really go deep and understand the needs that your customers are looking for." "Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today" "We're running the company to serve more people." "Your community can be your biggest asset. Don't just sell to them, serve them. " "Opportunity lies in the place where the complaints are." "When product and marketing are doing their jobs well, you'd think that the product almost sells itself." "It’s not about being relentlessly focused on the competitor. It is about being relentlessly focused on the customer."