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“If no forces interfere with the process of entry by competitors, profitability will be driven to levels at which efficient firms earn no more…

— Bruce Greenwald

“great companies fail not because they want to avoid disruptive change but because they are reluctant to embrace promising new markets that might undermine…

— Brad Stone

“Rivalry is especially destructive to profitability if it gravitates solely to price because price competition transfers profits directly from an industry to its customers.…

— Michael E. Porter

Companies that get in trouble have a failure to see two realities: market trends and competitor attacks.

— Michael J. Silverstein

One of the problems with industries that have been in relatively long-term declines is that, very often, the managements in those industries develop a…

— Wilbur Ross

“The existence of thriving competitors proves that there is a market. After that, it’s all about execution: if you execute better than the competitors,…

— Jonathan Siegel

“Although external changes can be the problem, the greater threat to strategy often comes from within. A sound strategy is undermined by a misguided…

— Michael E. Porter

You can look at the cost structure of an incumbent company and discover: where are they not going to be able to drop their…

— Aaron Levie

The investor who permits himself to be stampeded or unduly worried by unjustified market declines in his holdings is perversely transforming his basic advantage…

— Benjamin Graham

The majority of unskilled investors stubbornly hold onto their losses when the losses are small and reasonable. They could get out cheaply, but being…

— William O'Neil

Poor firms ignore their competitors; average firms copy their competitors; winning firms lead their competitors.

— Philip Kotler

“Exits are the least understood part of investing—as often by the investors themselves as by the entrepreneurs. This book is about the large number…

— Basil Peters