moats

People will be trained to create little moats to protect power, inflate budgets, hide data, hurt other employees.

You can simply afford to spend more resources building moats around your business than your smaller competitors can.

Buffet's love of economic moats will likely help ensure that his successor will not be in a Ballmer-type position.

Any aggressor other than Canada or Mexico would have to first cross the twin giant moats of the US.

Google has some very impressive moats, but the real question is how much protection they actually provide.

Companies that have defensible moats around their business don't need to overpay or rush into deals.

Apartments and high rises are much more common, moats don't work there.

Though keep in mind that actuaries are protected by big regulatory moats.

Most people can't have moats, they don't live in detached houses.

Agreed, things like Chrome and Android appear to be moats against a new search engine not being able to compete on a level playing field.

Swift have one of the biggest moats in the world.

Google commoditizes software and builds moats around search and advertising.

Credentialed actuaries command a premium in the marketplace not because of any "regulatory moats", but because the specialized education itself is very valuable.

One of the key tenets of Warren Buffett's theory of investment value is based around "moats" - businesses that can't easily be replicated.

Google/Facebook/Apple have pretty strong moats and large diverse markets, and can afford to release products "when they're done" and not talk about them until then.

What you're describing, except search, are all "moats"[1].