Competition Quote by Michael E. Porter Download Open image ““Competitive forces = the underlying drivers of profitability P.25”” — Michael E. Porter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Competition Competitive-forces Motivation Strategic Strategy
“Understanding the competitive forces, and their underlying causes, reveals the roots of an industry’s current profitability while providing a framework for anticipating and influencing… — Michael E. Porter Copy Share Image
“Good industry analysis looks rigorously at the structural underpinnings of profitability P.29” — Michael E. Porter Copy Share Image
“The strongest competitive force or forces determine the profitability of an industry and become the most important to strategy formulation. The most salient force,… — Michael E. Porter Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The point of industry analysis is not to declare the industry attractive or unattractive but to understand the underpinnings of competition and the root… — Michael E. Porter Copy Share Image
“Strategy can be viewed as building defenses against the competitive forces or finding a position in the industry where the forces are weakest. P.35” — Michael E. Porter Copy Share Image
“Profit is a by-product of success, focus on success not on profit.” — Firoz Thairinil Copy Share Image
“Too many businesses compete on price when they should be competing on value.” — John Morgan Copy Share Image
“Competition on dimensions other than price - on product features, support services, delivery time, or brand image, for instance - is less likely to… — Michael E. Porter Copy Share Image
“THE U.S. HEALTH CARE SYSTEM is on a dangerous path, with a toxic combination of high costs, uneven quality, frequent errors, and limited access… — Michael E. Porter Copy Share Image
“Programs in operational effectiveness produce reassuring progress, although superior profitability may remain elusive. Business publications and consultants flood the market with information about what… — Michael E. Porter Copy Share Image
“U.S. consumers report higher dissatisfaction with their health care system than do consumers in other developed nations.” — Michael E. Porter Copy Share Image
“MOST COMPANIES OWE THEIR INITIAL success to a unique strategic position involving clear trade-offs. Activities once were aligned with that position.” — Michael E. Porter Copy Share Image
“Many countries have state-dominated or state-run systems with little competition. Their historically lower costs and favorable mortality statistics have led some to advocate that… — Michael E. Porter Copy Share Image
“One of the essential tasks in industry analysis is to distinguish temporary or cyclical changes from structural changes. P.29” — Michael E. Porter Copy Share Image
“The strongest competitive force or forces determine the profitability of an industry and become the most important to strategy formulation. The most salient force,… — Michael E. Porter Copy Share Image
“Standardized process guidelines belie the complexity of individual patient circumstances, and freeze care delivery processes rather than foster innovation. What is needed is competition… — Michael E. Porter Copy Share Image
“Good quality is less costly because of more accurate diagnoses, fewer treatment errors, lower complication rates, faster recovery, less invasive treatment, and the minimization… — Michael E. Porter Copy Share Image
“General management is more than the stewardship of individual functions. Its core is strategy: defining and communicating the company’s unique position, making trade-offs, and… — Michael E. Porter Copy Share Image
“But history tells us that monopolies that are truly benevolent and effective are rare.” — Michael E. Porter Copy Share Image
The Copa del Rey is a different competition. It is football in its purest form and is different from the continuity of the league. — Michael Laudrup Copy Share Image
I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very… — Evgeni Plushenko Copy Share Image
I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better? — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
People think that the Club World Cup is an easy competition, but it's not. — Keylor Navas Copy Share Image
If you ask another competitor, they may tell you they felt very competitive towards me. But I can tell you that my biggest competition… — Michelle Kwan Copy Share Image
Our competition has always been anything that is wasting your time when you're bored at work. In a broad sense. We want people to… — Alexis Ohanian Copy Share Image
I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more… — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
Honestly, we’ll compete with everybody. I love competition. As long as people invent their own stuff, I love competition. — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in land, money… — Laurance Labadie Copy Share Image
I try to keep up with everything - all wrestling across the board. I want to know what the competition is doing, what the… — Matt Hardy Copy Share Image
Sometimes in England, people look down at the Europa League, but being from the continent, I've always realised what an important competition it is. — Simon Mignolet Copy Share Image
“There is a scene in one of the Rocky movies where after the match Apollo Creed and Rocky are waiting for the scoring of… — John A. Passaro Copy Share Image
