Competitive Forces Quotes

“Always treat your competitors smarter than you are.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail:Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“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 competition (and profitability) over time. P. 26”
― Michael E. Porter, HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy

“The strongest competitive force or forces determine the profitability of an industry and become the most important to strategy formulation. The most salient force, however, is not always obvious. P. 26”
― Michael E. Porter, HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy

“In essence, the job of the strategist is to understand and cope with competition. P. 25”
― Michael E. Porter, HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy

“Understanding industry structure is also essential to effective strategic positioning P. 26”
― Michael E. Porter, HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy

“If the forces are intense, (..) almost no company earns attractive returns on investment.

If the forces are benign, (..) many companies are profitable. P. 25”
― Michael E. Porter, HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy

“Competitive forces = the underlying drivers of profitability P.25”
― Michael E. Porter, HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy

“Every company’s supply chain should be its ultimate competitive weapon—not the gun with which you shoot yourself in the foot.”
― Steven J. Bowen, Total Value Optimization: Transforming Your Global Supply Chain Into a Competitive Weapon

“Everything has value only when ranked against something else; everyone has value only when ranked against someone else. Every situation is win-lose, unless it is win-win—a situation where players are free to collaborate only because they seek prizes in different games. The real world appears as a video arcadia divided into many
and varied games.”
― McKenzie Wark, Gamer Theory