“I gave someone a perverse argument not so long ago about why advertising is better than movies. You want to hear it? Movies operate from a really disingenuous premise, that people are heroes. I know a lot of people and have had an opportunity over the years to observe them. Are they heroes...? Let's put it this way. Advertising tries something simpler and more believable: Products as heroes. I guess the idea is: When all else fails, put your faith in conditioner.” PeopleKnowsWayWantTryingYearsLongIdeasOpportunityFailingProductsHeroArgumentAdvertisingLong AgoPremisesBelievableWhen All Else FailsDisingenuous Author:Errol Morris
“I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.” PastOpportunityNamesBehindsProductsCarefulItemsEvaluate Author:Bear Grylls
“There's such a huge link with fashion, with front covers of magazines and selling products, but that's not what you go into the job for, and yet you're persuaded that's what you have to do to create the opportunities for yourself.” JobsOpportunityFashionFrontsProductsHugeSellingMagazinesLinksSelling Products Author:Ruth Wilson
“Choose to be entrepreneur because then YOU create value. Choose to be an entrepreneur because the products, services, and jobs you create then become the lifeblood of our nation. But most of all, choose to be an entrepreneur because then you desire a life of adventure, endless challenge, and the opportunity to be your BEST SELF.” SelfJobsDesireValuesOpportunityNationsChallengesAdventureProductsEntrepreneurEndlessBest SelfBe Your Best Author:John Gokongwei
“I am not a product of privilege, I am a product of opportunity.” OpportunityProductsPrivilege Author:Edward Heath
“Writing for UrbanMoms has awarded me a multitude of amazing opportunities. I have traveled to new places; alone and with my family. I have discovered new products, new books, new trends and new restaurants, and been able to share them with my readers. I've met other wonderful writers and many incredible celebrities.” WritingBookAbleOpportunityWonderfulShareProductsReaderMetsMy FamilyIncrediblesRestaurantsTrendsMultitudesTraveledNew BooksNew PlacesNew ProductsAmazing Opportunities Author:Anna Quindlen
“Germany has a very able and productive workforce. It has high-quality products that are valued all over the world. It has every opportunity to be a productive, growing state. It just has to give its entrepreneurs a chance. It has to let them make money, hire and fire, and act like entrepreneurs.” WorldGivingStatesAbleOpportunityChanceQualityFireGrowingProductsEntrepreneurMaking MoneyGermanyProductiveHigh QualityWorkforce Author:Milton Friedman
“Being an entrepreneur I love to help people, and I think through the products that we develop in my company, we will be able to help a lot of people. Whether it's help them to get over the difficulties of a technology and use it. Or helping employees, creating new jobs, new opportunities for people that work in my company.” PeopleThinkingHelpingUseAbleJobsOpportunityCompanyTechnologyProductsCreatingDifficultyEntrepreneurEmployeeGet OverNew JobNew Opportunity Author:Anousheh Ansari
“By saying Make in India, we are not only inviting companies for cost-effective manufacturing, but also giving them an opportunity of a large market for their products.” GivingOpportunityCompanyProductsCostIndiaInnovationManufacturingInvitingMake In India Author:Narendra Modi
“We don't believe in limiting access to our product. We believe that making our ticket sales available on as many sites as possible is good for the studios and good for us. We have on any given day 25,000 show starts - five show times at 5,000 screens. We have 1M seats more or less in our circuit. So I have 25M sales opportunities every single day. Why would I want to limit access?” WantBelieveShowsOpportunityGivenFiveProductsLimitsDon't BelieveStudiosAvailableScreensAccessSeatsTicketsSiteCircuits Author:Gerry Lopez
“A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you. And then that's what you have to be. But what I'm looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.” I CanOpportunityCan DoIdentityProductsLimitsLabelsWrapsProbing Author:Alan Arkin
“The right way is the greatest gratifier of human wishes ever come upon - when allowed to operate. It is as morally sound as the Golden Rule. It is the way of willing exchange, of common consent, of self-responsibility, of open opportunity. It respects the right of each to the product of his labor. It limits the police force to keeping the peace. It is the way of the free market, private property, limited government. On its banner is emblazoned Individual Liberty.” WayHumansSelfGovernmentOpportunityIndividualForceWishSoundCommonResponsibilityLibertyWillingProductsLimitsLaborPolicePropertyGoldenConsentRight WayFree MarketPrivate PropertyLimited GovernmentGolden RuleBannerIndividual LibertyPolice ForceSelf Responsibility Author:Leonard Read
“I think there are lots of opportunities to improve the product. When you read the press, people say, "Oh, the product needs improvement." I look at that and say, "Hey, that's an exciting thing to get behind!" Because they can improve that product. That leaves more upside from an innovation and revenue potential than you're gonna find in a lot of places. So you could say that's a downside, I see that as an opportunity.” PeopleThinkingNeedsLooksOpportunityBehindsProductsExcitingInnovationPressesImprovementHeyRevenueExciting Things Author:Steve Ballmer
“Even though it was January, in Los Angeles it was beautiful and sunny and the blue skies were out and it was hot everyday, so I think it was just a product of our environment. And California to me as a concept or as an idea always seems like endless optimism and endless opportunity - when people think of California they think of palm trees and blue skies and gorgeous sunsets and beaches and everything else. But there's also this weirdness to California, this darkness, it's a place where people come to follow their dreams and sometimes don't make it.” PeopleThinkingIdeasSometimesDreamSeemsBeautifulOpportunityDarknessEnvironmentTreeSkyProductsConceptsOptimismHotBlueEverydayEndlessBeachCaliforniaSunsetLos AngelesPalmsGorgeousOur EnvironmentSunnyJanuaryWeirdnessBlue SkyPalm TreesEndless Opportunities Author:Mark Hoppus
“Through crowdfunding anyone can find companies and products.Forming a partnership with innovative British businesses was appealing and the opportunity to go on a journey with these companies as they grow, and hopefully share in their future success, is exciting.” OpportunityGrowsCompanyJourneyShareProductsGoes OnExcitingBritishHopefullyPartnershipInnovativeFuture SuccessCrowdfunding Author:Andy Murray
“Imagine that Queen Elizabeth I, in her time, had the opportunity to give out a monopoly for playing cards within the kingdom. She knew she was going to give it to one of her courtiers. These courtiers would then all try to curry her favour. Meanwhile, they would not contribute anything to the product of the kingdom, in fact, they were wasting resources trying to secure a single prize. That, more or less, is rent seeking.” GivingTryingFactsOpportunityImagineProductsResourcesSeekingKingdomsCardsSecureQueensPrizeImagine ThatFavourMonopolyCurryPlaying CardsQueen ElizabethCourtiers Author:James M. Buchanan
“For me, it's often about consumption behavior. I focus my energy on understanding the heavy user. They are "odd" but hold opportunity. I ask: how do they use the product, what motivates them, how can we clone them.” UseAsksOpportunityEnergyUnderstandingFocusProductsBehaviorHeavyOddUsersConsumption Author:Michael J. Silverstein
“The challenges, the changes we're talking about often seem to them like unbelievable opportunities to deliver a product quicker, better. If you can improve the quality, lower the cost, and improve the turns - and you can do that because your information systems, your delivery systems, are better because of technology - well, you see that as a wonderful opportunity to gain market share.” IfsWellsSeemsTurnsOpportunityCan DoChallengesQualityTalkingTechnologyWonderfulShareInformationProductsCostGainsUnbelievableDeliveryInformation Systems Author:Ken Moelis
“The GDP approach doesn't address many aspects of human life: health, education, political liberty, religious liberty, employment opportunities. And these are not all that well correlated with gross domestic product. We also have to think about equality among groups. And freedom of speech and religion. China always ranks near the top of developing countries these days, but there are lots of things we might see as lacking in China.” ThinkingHumansWellsCountryMightPoliticalOpportunityReligiousLibertyGroupsProductsSpeechApproachAspectChinaEmploymentDevelopingThese DaysHuman LifeAddressesFreedom Of SpeechLackingGrossGdpReligious LibertyDeveloping CountriesGross Domestic ProductHealth EducationEmployment Opportunities Author:Martha C. Nussbaum