“It's not about charisma and personality, it's about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry.” PeopleResultsCompanyProductsPersonalityIndustryExcitedApplesCharismaBedrock Author:Steve Jobs
“That said, a lot of people buy products with "green" in the brand name, but make no attempt to understand what it would really take to live sustainably. I think one of the most pernicious examples of magical environmental thinking is the anti-GMO movement.” PeopleThinkingSaidNamesExampleMovementProductsGreenEnvironmentalBrandsPerniciousGmosBrand Names Author:Annalee Newitz
“Technology isn't simply addictive - it's addictive because it's a servant to business incentives. There are huge departments in these companies that are devoted to this and staffed by incredibly talented people who have skills that could be put to socially beneficial projects but who are now trying to find out how to make you click and how to maximize your time on a certain site, or encourage teenagers to "friend" more products and constantly engage with them.” PeopleTryingCertainCompanyTechnologyProductsHugeSkillsProjectsTeenagerServantDepartmentDevotedSiteIncentivesBeneficialClicks Author:Astra Taylor
“Do more and understand that all wealth came from poor people either as the entrepreneurs or the consumers who buy the product that keeps the entrepreneurs in business.” PeopleWealthPoorProductsEntrepreneurConsumersPoor People Author:John Hope Bryant
“People really don't understand the technology they're using. It's been talked about a lot. Apple products in particular are designed in such a way that's harder to get in and understand what processes are going on.” PeopleWayProcessTechnologyParticularProductsHarderApples Author:Charlie Jane Anders
“The dangers of eating animal products occur after the age of reproduction. If people developed cardiovascular disease that was fatal by the age of twelve or thirteen, eating animals would have died out long ago. You get it after you've already reproduced.” PeopleIfsLongAgeAnimalDangerProductsDiseaseEatingDiedTwelveLong AgoReproductionThirteenEating AnimalsCardiovascularCardiovascular Disease Author:Neal Barnard
“Hollywood is definitely now embracing a more natural approach to beauty. Staying "youthful-looking" is old news. The ubiquitous term "anti-aging" has become meaningless. Women today want to look like a more revitalized version of themselves. The bottom line is we all want to be natural. I am seeing an increasing number of people who want to match the products they use every day to a more natural, healthy lifestyle.” PeopleWantLooksUseTodayTermNaturalLinesNumbersSeeingProductsHealthyApproachNewsHollywoodAgingBottomLifestyleVersionsStayingMeaninglessBottom LineHealthy LifestyleOld News Author:Sophie Heyman Uliano
“Goodness is also about interacting with people, brands, companies and organizations who are invested in sustainable and ethical practices. What's the point of using products that are ruining our Earth? It doesn't make sense.” PeopleEarthCompanyPracticeProductsGoodnessOrganizationBrandsMake SenseEthicalInteracting Author:Sophie Heyman Uliano
“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
“here are problems with the Turkish products inside Russia and the tourism going down. People are worried about that. But the really big economic weapons, oil and especially natural gas, those have not been brought into play yet - mostly in the form of threat so far. So basically the view from here is that, yeah, things are getting bad, but they could still get much, much worse.” PeopleStillsPlayProblemBigsFormNaturalViewsEconomicProductsWeaponsYeahThreatOilRussiaWorriedGasTourismTurkishNatural Gas Author:Peter Kenyon
“There were the days when women were under contract, and they were thought of as a commodity, so they hired the best writers and a lot of them were women at the time. This was in the thirties and forties, to make product for the people who were under contract, who were their assets to the studios. But that doesn't exist anymore - and as a result, the people who are in the industry write products that interest them.” PeopleWritingInterestResultsProductsIndustryStudiosFortyAssetsContractsCommodity Author:Sally Field
“I would model well-being by presenting myself as a high-energy person who loves what I am doing and who is thrilled to be able to offer books, tapes, and products designed to make people feel good. I would explain that they are in a store filled with this kind of energy and that creating such a space is exactly why I got into the business in the first place. If you want to feel good, then my store is the place you should visit on a regular basis. I would stay very informed about what's out there and make sure I carry many things with very high energy.” PeopleIfsWantFeelsShouldFirstsWellsKindPersonsBookAbleEnergySpaceProductsOffersCreatingModelsBasesFilledStoresFeel GoodWell BeingTapePresentingHigh Energy Author:Wayne Dyer
“In many ways, Apple CEO Tim Cook has been saying that and more for many years. He's said you don't have to choose between doing good and doing well. But only a few dozen people were lined up outside the Apple Store in San Francisco. That's nothing compared to the hundreds and thousands that line up for new products. Cook is taking a gamble here.” PeopleWayYearsWellsHas BeensSaidLinesProductsStoresCooksApplesDozenCeoSan FranciscoDoing GoodGambleNew Products Author:Laura Sydell
“Hoodwink is a product of his environment. He grew up in Belfast, he was part of the UDA and he fought for what he believed in - or was brainwashed into believing - because of the people that surrounded him.” PeopleBelieveEnvironmentProductsGrewGrew UpBrainwashedBelfast Author:Andy Serkis
“I think when the music and the product is amazing, people buy it.” PeopleThinkingProductsAmazing People Author:Warryn Campbell
“We got a lot of excellent people and businesses from Bear and WaMu. But Bear definitely was more painful. WaMu got us into Florida, California, and other states, which was a huge benefit - to expand and grow and add middle-market, private banking, investment banking, and other products, too.” PeopleStatesGrowsMiddleProductsHugeBearsBenefitsAddInvestmentPainfulExcellentCaliforniaFloridaBankingInvestment Banking Author:Jamie Dimon
“What marketers used to do is make average products for average people. That's what mass marketing is. They would ignore the geeks, and - God forbid - the laggards. It was all about going for the center. I don't think that's the strategy we want to use anymore.” PeopleThinkingWantUseUsedProductsMassStrategyMarketingAverageGeekMarketers Author:Seth Godin
“I just people to get big bang for their buck. I just feel like I am really lucky that I still get the support that I do from my fans when it is so easy to download music for free. When fans go out and support and buy my music that really means a lot to me so I want to make sure that I give the very best I can when selling a product.” PeopleWantGivingFeelsMeanStillsI CanBigsEasySupportFansProductsLuckySellingBangsReally MeanBucksDownloads Author:Shane Bunting
“I think people who want to use genetic technologies to gain a competitive edge for their children are engaging in a kind of overreaching that could really undermine our appreciation of children as gifts for which we should be grateful and, instead, to view them as products or instruments that are there to be molded and directed.” PeopleThinkingWantShouldKindChildrenUseViewsTechnologyProductsGainsInstrumentsGratefulEdgesAppreciationBe GratefulEngagingOverreaching Author:Michael Sandel
“People don't put as much of an emphasis in expanding their choices, so that, you know, one of the things that I learned when I was in Japan way back in the 1990's and there were all these quarrels happening between the U.S. and Japan about allowing more American products into the Japanese market.” PeopleKnowsWayChoicesProductsHappeningsJapanAllowingEmphasisExpandingQuarrels Author:Sheena Iyengar
“And so as a director, as a leader, and myself as a director and a leader, I kind of try to make sure that we hold onto the vision and kind of corral it, but by the time you finish whatever the project is, a TV show, a series, a movie, a stage show, it should be a product of what all those people can do, and therefore, it can never be what you imagined it would be in the beginning.” PeopleShouldTryingKindShowsWould BeCan DoLeaderVisionStageTvsProductsDirectorsProjectsSeriesTv Shows Author:Brian Henson
“People want to be inspired. They want to aspire to something. ... You can have the best product, the best service, the best argument in a debate. But without the effective words you still lose. In the end you need good principles and good language if you are to succeed.” PeopleIfsWantNeedsStillsEndsLanguageLosesPrinciplesProductsSucceedArgumentInspiredDebateAspireBe InspiredBest Service Author:Frank Luntz
“We tend to view confidence as a product of accomplishment rather than part of the process that leads there. But supremely confident people were confident long before they achieved anything.” PeopleInspirationalLongProcessViewsProductsConfidenceAchievementAccomplishment Author:John Eliot
“The only two people who can give you real feedback about your product are people who just purchased it and people who have just canceled.” PeopleGivingTwoRealProductsFeedback Author:Jason Fried
“You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.” PeopleMindHeartArtHandsEyeHateProcessResultsTalkingProductsDegreesHandleNot SureCriticizeConfusing Author:Jeff Melvoin
“our product will speak for itself if it's that good and your fan base will come and people will want it. Having the right people in your circle is very important to help support that.” PeopleIfsWantImportantHelpingSpeakSupportFansProductsCircles Author:Ledisi
“So in every sense, from an independent artist to a major label artist, you just have to have great product, great faith and great people, they all go together.” PeopleTogetherArtistProductsMajorsIndependentLabelsGreat PeopleGreat Faith Author:Ledisi
“The federal government has more power to recall a defective stuffed animal who's little glass eye may fall off than to recall contaminated ground beef that could sicken or even kill hundreds if not thousands of people. The meat-packing industry is so powerful that it's managed to prevent the government from having this basic power of recalling a defective product.” PeopleIfsMayLittlesGovernmentEyeFallAnimalPowerfulProductsIndustryGlassesMeatRecallsFederal GovernmentBeefDefectivePackingStuffed Animal Author:Eric Schlosser
“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
“What drives me? Surrounding myself with amazing talent to craft a breakthrough product which can be used by millions of people to change the world.” PeopleWorldUsedMillionsTalentProductsCraftsChanging The WorldBreakthroughAmazing Talent Author:Mike McCue
“Marketing is all pervasive. They're getting marketed products they can't afford - can't ever hope to acquire. They believe the only way they're ever going to achieve happiness is the acquisition of these products. Products they can't afford. They see people living that lifestyle, and they have that lifestyle beamed incessantly into their minds through media, which you know I participate in.” PeopleKnowsWayMindBelieveAchieveMediaProductsMarketingLifestyleAcquireAcquisitionIncessantly Author:Russell Brand
“I would advise people occasionally to take the media on, but only when you know it's a manufactured product and not a news interview.” PeopleKnowsMediaProductsNewsInterviewsAdvise Author:Roger Ailes
“People like to blame Mexican food, but look at what's happening globally, look at all the fast foods and products filled with trans fat. Before the Mexican Revolution, a hundred years ago, people were eating what now macrobiotics tells us to eat, corn, black beans, rice. That's what people were eating - and chile peppers. That's a healthy diet.” PeopleYearsLooksBlackProductsRevolutionHealthyEatingHappeningsHundredYears AgoBlameFilledFatsDietsMexicanCornRiceBeansTransFast FoodPeppersChileHealthy DietBlame MeMexican FoodMexican Revolution Author:Sandra Cisneros
“We all want to be natural. I am seeing an increasing number of people who want to match the products they use every day to a more natural, healthy lifestyle.” PeopleWantUseNaturalNumbersSeeingProductsHealthyLifestyleHealthy Lifestyle Author:Sophie Heyman Uliano
“I believe that products should use technology to empower people of all abilities, to augment our minds and bodies, to make us better human beings.” PeopleShouldMindBelieveHumansUseBodyI BelieveHuman BeingsAbilityTechnologyProductsEmpoweringMind And Body Author:Tom Gruber
“Our society is connecting workers with the products people consume and recognizing workers for their contributions. It is important to do that, and to have organized labor - a middle class - to preserve our democracy.” PeopleImportantClassDemocracyMiddleProductsLaborWorkersPreservesOrganizedContributionMiddle ClassOur SocietyRecognizingConnectingOrganized Labor Author:Dolores Huerta
“There are many innovators hard at work seeking to perfect alternatives to meat, milk, and eggs. These food products will, like computer-generated graphics or photography or sound systems, just keep getting better and better until there is little difference between an animal-based protein and a plant-based one, or farm-produced versus cultured meat. That will make it easy for people to make the kinds of choices that will usher in a world with far less violence.” PeopleWorldKindLittlesHardChoicesEasySoundDifferencesPerfectAnimalViolenceProductsComputerPhotographyPlantSeekingAlternativesMeatGet BetterEggsFarmsMilkVersusProteinInnovatorsSound Systems Author:Wayne Pacelle
“I think if you look at Hollywood as a whole and the type of content that they put out over the years, it's pretty homogeneous, right? They haven't done a really deep dive into a lot of stories of people of color. I don't want to say that there haven't been attempts, and there has been some great product that has come out over the years, but I think in 2016, we're in a world of struggle. It's not just about race, it's also about the LGBT community too and others.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWantYearsLooksHas BeensDoneWholeStoriesCommunityRaceStruggleHavensColorProductsTypeHollywoodLgbtReally DeepHomogeneousLgbt Community Author:Mike Jackson
“I truly believe slavery is why, as a by-product, we still have a disproportionate amount of black men incarcerated in the USA. It is an extension of that legacy, and that's not going to start to diminish until black people have a new sense of themselves that isn't tied to slavery and feeling inferior. I think the church can be instrumental in that, in terms of repentance, reconciliation and just being more embracing of each other - not just on Sunday, but in life generally.” PeopleThinkingMenBelieveStillsFeelingsBlackTermChurchProductsAmountSlaveryLegacyUsaSundayRepentanceBlack PeopleTiedJust BeingInferiorsExtensionsDiminishReconciliation Author:David Oyelowo
“I don't need every customer. I'm primarily in the business of selling a product for money. How much effort do I really want to devote to satisfying people who are unable or extremely unlikely to pay for anything?” PeopleWantNeedsEffortPayProductsCustomersSellingSatisfyingUnlikely Author:Marco Arment
“I've been with the project for like three years: creating it, pushing it. [There] becomes a certain doubt when you're pitching this story to people. ["The Land" is] a cautionary tale. It's not the brightest or best ending to a film when you're telling a cautionary tale about four kids, kids who are killing each other, kids who are products of the streets.” PeopleYearsStoriesKidsFilmCertainThreeDoubtFourStreetsLandProductsProjectsCreatingKillingTalesPushingThree YearsPitchingKilling Each OtherPushing ItCautionary Tales Author:Steven Caple Jr.
“People can buy the kind of things they consider as normal and take for granted because of globalization and trade and use of supply chains and the reduction of the cost base of the manufacturing of some products.” PeopleKindUseProductsCostNormalTradeChainsGrantedGlobalizationManufacturingReductionSupply Chain Author:Christine Lagarde
“People I've interviewed say they're terrified there may be boycotts of their [the Kochs] products, which include so many household items that everybody's familiar with, things like Stainmaster Carpet and Dixie Cups and Brawny paper towels and Lycra.” PeopleMayProductsPaperFamiliarCupsHouseholdTerrifiedItemsCarpetTowelsBoycottDixiePaper Towels Author:Jane Mayer
“Apple made tools that helped people express their creativity and Steve Jobs knew that so he told that story well. But Facebook makes tools that help people connect and Mark Zuckerberg is hardly a story-teller. Nevertheless, he's become a leader because his products do such a good job of solving a problem.” PeopleWellsMadeHelpingStoriesProblemJobsLeaderCreativityProductsToolsMarkApplesNeverthelessGood JobZuckerberg Author:Lewis Schiff
“They are involve in producing products and there are different kinds of people running them, but the principle is the same. A corporation shouldn't have the right. Under American law as its developed over the past century, corporation do have personal rights, but I think that's a very negative development.” PeopleThinkingKindDifferentRunningPastLawPrinciplesRightsCenturyProductsDevelopmentNegativeCorporationsDifferent KindsOver The PastAmerican LawPersonal Rights Author:Noam Chomsky
“People will try to copy what they can see, which is the final product or service, but it's much harder to see (and copy) all the intricacies of the business model that allows you to create, capture, and deliver value. And that's what you need to get right to really jam something down people's throats!” PeopleNeedsTryingValuesProductsModelsHarderFinalsCopiesThroatCaptureJamBusiness ModelsIntricacy Author:Scott D. Anthony
“It's one of the underappreciated skills required by an innovator - they have to be able to convince lots of people to do things that might not be fully rational (invest in the company, join something that is likely to fail, try a product they've never seen before), and if you can't tell a good story it is just very hard to make that happen.” PeopleIfsTryingHardStoriesMightHappensAbleCompanyFailingProductsSkillsRationalConvinceGood StoryInnovators Author:Scott D. Anthony
“A movie is the product of the chemistry of the people that make it. Whatever that core group of people is, that becomes the DNA of the movie.” PeopleGroupsProductsCoreChemistryDna Author:Doug Sweetland
“Put the greatest emphasis on what's in you; your knowledge, your wisdom, your inner strength, your character, your tenacity and people will look through the box and always walk away with the product.” PeopleLooksCharacterWalksProductsBoxesInner StrengthEmphasisTenacity Author:T. D. Jakes
“I noticed a lot of bands always having a few people in the band being interested in recording and audio production, so I got the idea to create products that would appeal to them. Rather than create tools that only engineers could understand, I designed tools that any musician could use and get instant great sounding results.” PeopleIdeasUseResultsProductsBandMusicianToolsProductionsAppealsInstantEngineersAudio Author:Joey Sturgis