“Some people steal from others, or defraud them, or enslave them, seizing their product and preventing them from living as they choose, or forcibly exclude others from competing in exchanges. None of these are permissible modes of transition from one situation to another.” PeopleSituationProductsStealingTransitionCompetingPreventingSeizing Book:Anarchy, state, and utopia Source: Anarchy, state, and utopia
“If an open source product gets good enough, we'll simply take it. So the great thing about open source is nobody owns it - a company like Oracle is free to take it for nothing, include it in our products and charge for support, and that's what we'll do. So it is not disruptive at all - you have to find places to add value. Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane. We don't have to fight open source, we have to exploit open source.” IfsEnoughWould BeValuesFightingCompanySupportProductsSourceAddGreat ThingsInsaneGood EnoughCompetingExploitsDisruptiveOraclesOpen Source Author:Larry Ellison
“This is true for most new products. The majority of people you're competing with are non-users. They are people who have never used your service before. And what they say is actually the most important. What they say is the thing that blocks you from expanding the size of your market with your features.” PeopleImportantUsedProductsMajoritySizeBlockFeaturesUsersCompetingExpandingNew Products Author:Emmett Shear
“The challenge when you think about product distribution is: how are you competing for potential customers or potential members time?” ThinkingChallengesProductsMembersCustomersCompetingDistribution Author:Reid Hoffman
“The essence and the glory of the free market is that individual firms and businesses, competing on the market, provide an ever-changing orchestration of efficient and progressive goods and services: continually improving products and markets, advancing technology, cutting costs, and meeting changing consumer demands as swiftly and as efficiently as possible.” IndividualTechnologyCuttingProductsCostDemandGloryEssenceMeetingsConsumersFirmGoodsProgressiveEfficientImprovingCompetingFree MarketAdvancingGoods And ServicesOrchestration Book:For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto Source: For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto
“Competing companies evolve toward efficiency as the more efficient ones profit and expand while those who fall behind fail. And companies being efficient and profiting under the Health Impact Fund, this is exactly what we want, because the company's profit is directly driven by the health impact its registered products achieve.” WantFallBehindsCompanyFailingAchieveProductsImpactProfitDrivenEvolveFundEfficientEfficiencyCompeting Author:Thomas Pogge