Al Ries Quotes
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The role of designers and product makers is to really become much better editors. What kind of functionality is actually needed - and truly delightful - to consumers? Remove all the extraneous stuff.
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It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.
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But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.
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Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.
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I worry that we're not getting enough of the news that we need to make informed judgments as citizens.
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My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.
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Mark Zuckerberg needs no introduction these days, what with all the magazine covers and morning news shows. My mother knows who he is now, and my mother can hardly turn on a computer.
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When a product is made, everyone hopes for the best. Whether it could have been better or not is more of an afterthought.
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The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.
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In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.
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It's just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious.
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Most of us can now record a whole series with the click of a button. We all have DVD players, and the rise of the DVD box-set means we watch this stuff in two, three-hour sessions. So there is this real appetite out there for lengthy, pretty intricate drama. All that is great news for writers.
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A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
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The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
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I don't have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
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Hey, if we didn't overcharge for our product - guess what - people wouldn't have to buy used games.
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I do believe in standing for something more than just a product.
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The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.
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Fools make news, and wise men carry it.
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We just say there are five, you know, racial groups in the US. I say that these folks are what we call a sixth American. There's something different. They are somebody who - they don't exist in any particular racial category, so they all feel it and they kind of congregate to each other.
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When we are reporting the news, we make every effort to report it in as factual way as possible.
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I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.
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After a snowstorm is the best time to be in the woods, because all the empty beer and soda cans and candy wrappers disappear, and you don't have to try as hard to be in another time. Plus there's just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on.
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The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.
