Competition Quote by Michael E. Porter

“Competitive forces = the underlying drivers of profitability P.25”

— Michael E. Porter

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Good industry analysis looks rigorously at the structural underpinnings of profitability P.29”

— Michael E. Porter

“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

“High rivalry limits the profitability of an industry P.32”

— Michael E. Porter

Our focus is to see that we are growing faster than the industry and, whichever product we launch, we do better than competition. We…

— Dilip Shanghvi

“Market without competition impedes its' dynamics.”

— Toba Beta

“Because the profitability framework won’t give me the additional information I need about customers and competitors, I’ve officially exhausted its usefulness. My working hypothesis…

— Victor Cheng

One of the reasons we are profitable is the changes that we've made and the long-term relationships we've built with major corporations. We have…

— David Steward