Products Quotes
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Five to 10 years ago we were a second tier brand. Now consumers say: 'I have a phone, or a TV, and it's fine. A few years ago it wasn't the right time to set our flat panel TVs as premium products, because they weren't.
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I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.
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Most products are ugly. The harsh reality is that in many of these markets, form follows funding. And that products go where the market takes them.
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People think about their business instead of their products.
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Presidents make history but are also a product of it. And there are two kinds: transforming and transactional. Reagan was a transforming president. He made history.
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Because of economics, you have to feed the demographics that are buying your product. So, as Asia becomes a much more economic influence on the products that are being made from America, I think people have to be sensitive.
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Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend?
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One thing people underestimate is how markets don't allow anyone to do anything except make better and better products. There's not much leeway. The world is a lot more competitive than most people think, particularly in a high-technology area. If a company takes its eye off improving its products, if it tries to do anything that would be viewed as an exercise of power, it'll be displaced very rapidly.
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I felt that there was nothing wrong with what I was doing because I was supplying a product to people that wanted it and it was accepted. I mean nobody really was making any negative statements about marijuana.
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Much like tobacco companies want to keep smokers dependent on their deadly product, the oil industry wants to keep California dependent on oil – an expensive, dirty and limited resource that damages health.
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The great artists represent you. The great products represent you. They don't tell you who you are. But with them, you require less verbiage.
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Many companies forget what it means to make great products. After initial success, sales and marketing people take over and the product people eventually make their way out.
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Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow.
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The secret to building great products is not creating awesome features, it's to make your users awesome.
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Good marketing offers us a view of the world. Bad marketing offers us a product to buy.
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Everything is a rejection of you, not your product, or your script, or a cosmetic. It's you.
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The defining qualities are about use: ease and simplicity. Caring beyond the functional imperative, we also acknowledge that products have a significance way beyond traditional views of function.
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Anyone can sell product by dropping their prices, but it does not breed loyalty.
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Growth and profit are a product of how people work together.
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Most companies are busy making their products worse, not better. Updating is almost always a disaster.
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People should try eating no animal products for just one day a week.
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Films are made all over the world all the time and only a thin slice of that product is Hollywood.
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TV is what sells your product.
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Unfortunately, most news writing is the product of a first draft culture.
