competitive advantage

“And what we learned because of our mistakes of significantly underperforming the market is you've got to stay focused on the direction of the competitive advantage because everybody's business, I don't care who it is, every organization, you're either getting …”

“We began to wrestle with that whole idea of what is important with a competitive advantage, and part of that was it wasn't about the absolute size, it was about the direction of that competitive advantage.”

“The business that's growing at above average rate without competitive advantage, that's really just momentum.”

“As we think about mode frameworks, how to think about competitive advantage, that's another field of compounding knowledge. If you can build patterns around it, that's more evergreen, that's more scalable, and you can apply it to multiple judgment calls.”

“All the other stuff that you hear about and people talk about around writing reports and Summarizing, that's all permission to play off the shelf stuff. There's no edge there. There's no competitive advantage in trying to think too deeply about any of those th…”

“Today, I would argue return on capital is less useful. As a touchstone for does a company have competitive advantage? Because if you don't have any capital and your denominator is nothing, it's pretty easy to generate a high ratio, right? It's just math. There…”