Competition Quotes

Google, I think, in some ways, is more competitive and certainly is trying to build their own little version of Facebook.

We think the fact that Instagram is connected to other services beyond Facebook is an important part of the experience...This is an important milestone for Facebook because it's the first time we've ever acquired a product and company with so many users.

I'm excited to share the news that we've agreed to acquire Instagram and that their talented team will be joining Facebook.

The world is changing so quickly, with mobile stuff and different platforms emerging, that I think it's more likely that the biggest competitor for Facebook is someone that we haven't heard of. What that means for us is that we should just really stay focused on what we're doing.

When we are thinking about stuff like embeds, we are not thinking about how we are competing with YouTube. We are thinking about how are we going to make it more useful for people to share stuff on Facebook.

We're very focused on making News Feed really good, making our photos experience really good, making messaging really good, and creating great location apps. That's the nature of a platform business of our scale. Most companies that are relevant to us will have some overlaps in some competitive way.

The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.

If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we'll turn out all right.

Your margin is my opportunity.

I constantly remind our employees to be afraid, to wake up every morning terrified. Not of our competition, but of our customers.

You want to look at what other companies are doing. It's very important not to be hermetically sealed. But you don't want to look at it as if, 'OK, we're going to copy that.' You want to look at it and say, 'That's very interesting. What can we be inspired to do as a result of that?' And then put your own unique twist on it.

Most big technology companies are competitor focused. They see what others are doing, and then work to fast follow. In contrast, 90 to 95 percent of what we build in AWS is driven by what customers tell us they want.

You've got to look for a gap, where competitors in a market have grown lazy and lost contact with the readers or the viewers.

My worry about the New York Times is that it's got the only position as a national elitist general-interest paper. So the network news picks up its cues from the Times. And local papers do too. It has a huge influence. And we'd love to challenge it.

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.

I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.

How exciting is it to come to work if the best you can do is trounce some other company that does roughly the same thing?

For a lot of companies, it's useful for them to feel like they have an obvious competitor and to rally around that. I personally believe it's better to shoot higher. You don't want to be looking at your competitors. You want to be looking at what's possible and how to make the world better.