“Marketers know that if people you respect - perhaps laughably including entertainers and athletes - say they like a product, you're more likely to buy.” PeopleIfsKnowsProductsIncludingAthleteEntertainersMarketers Author:Robert J. Shiller
“Too often we think about the green economy as an elite market niche, one in which affluent people spend more money to consume greener and cleaner products.” PeopleThinkingEconomyProductsGreenElitesMore MoneyNicheCleanersAffluentGreenerGreen Economy Author:Van Jones
“You never know. Down the road you can do a lot of product categories. But I think you really have to build your core first and for people to know you and respect you for that.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFirstsCan DoProductsCoreCategoriesDown The Road Author:Tamara Mellon
“All business models have something challenging about them, but the problem with the attention merchant business model they have is they need to keep increasing the amount of ads they deliver to people and therefore make their product worse.” PeopleNeedsProblemChallengesAttentionProductsAmountModelsAdsMerchantsBusiness Models Author:Tim Wu
“It's a standard thing you hear from startup people - that their product is somehow improving the world. And if you follow the reasoning, you will get somewhere, and I'll tell you where you get: You'll get to the description of what happens to the winners under the system that they're building.” PeopleIfsWorldHappensBuildingProductsStandardsWinnerReasoningDescriptionImproving Author:Cathy O'Neil
“When the feminist movement was at its zenith in the late 60's and early 70's, there was a lot of moving away from the idea of the person. It was: let's talk about the ideas behind the work, and the people matter less. It was kind of a gimmicky thing, but lots of feminist women were doing it. Many of us took the names of our female ancestors - bell hooks is my maternal great grandmother - to honor them and debunk the notion that we were these unique, exceptional women. We wanted to say, actually, we were the products of the women who'd gone before us.” PeopleKindPersonsIdeasMatterWantedMovingNamesBehindsGoneMovementProductsHonorLateUniqueFemaleNotionFeministGrandmotherAncestorBellsHookExceptionalMoving AwayFeminist MovementZenithGreat Grandmother Author:Bell Hooks
“If people that made products didn't market them and sell them we'd have no economy and nobody would be working.” PeopleIfsMadeWould BeEconomyProductsSells Author:Paula Scher
“In a lot of movies, especially big studio ones, they're not constructed in any other way than to get people to like them and then tell their friends. It's a product.” PeopleWayBigsProductsStudios Author:Charlie Kaufman
“When I left the Lampoon, I went west to try that out, and discovered that I hated it.They were awful people turning out awful product .” PeopleTryingLeftProductsWestAwfulHated Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“It would be nice if everybody were a little bit more mindful of what kind of product you're putting out there. Nothing's for everybody. People are liked and disliked, but at least be mindful of what you're doing and what your message is, and trying to stay true to your authenticity and what you're trying to attain or what your goals are, and don't let anybody get in the way of that. At the same time, have a goal, and have a message.” PeopleIfsWayTryingKindLittlesWould BeBitsGoalNiceProductsLittle BitMessagesAuthenticityBeing NiceStay True Author:Chelsea Handler
“Go into business, sell a product, sell a service, you're automatically a suspect to people like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton - unless you donate to them, and then you become their closest friends, and then we get cronyism.” PeopleProductsSellsClintonBarackSuspectsClosestDonateClosest FriendsCronyism Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Everybody's complaining about all of Trump's cabinet members, how rich they are, that's horrible. I'd rather have that than a bunch of people in Obama's cabinet that have never spent a minute making a payroll, creating a job, or a service, or inventing a product. What the hell is there about academics from the faculty lounge who don't know what they're talking about other than theoretically. Why not have a bunch of people who have succeeded wildly, sharing what they know, implementing what they know nationwide? I would much rather have that.” PeopleKnowsJobsTalkingHellRichMinutesProductsTrumpMembersCreatingComplainingHorribleBunchFacultyWhy NotInventingCabinetsPayrollImplementingTalking About Others Author:Rush Limbaugh
“If you were buying products or going to movies based upon the politics of the people involved, well I probably couldn't go to half the movies I go to.” PeopleIfsWellsHalfProductsInvolvedBuying Author:Andrew Puzder
“The more you lecture those running the companies on how they need to give more breaks to women or other minority groups and be more open-minded to their work products and perhaps question themselves on a double standard, the more some of those people shut down to your messaging. I'm not saying it's right; I'm just saying you can very easily get labeled as someone who sees everything through a prism of race or gender or what have you. So we have to walk a fine line. It's sad but it's the truth.” PeopleNeedsGivingRunningLinesWalksRaceCompanyBreakGroupsProductsFineStandardsGenderMinoritiesLecturesOpen MindedFine LinesJust SayingDouble StandardPrismsMinority Groups Author:Megyn Kelly
“There are a group of people who are managing the world to their advantage and who just look to the rest of us as people who will buy their products and fund their salaries.” PeopleWorldLooksGroupsProductsAdvantageFundSalary Author:Jeremy Irons
“I've always put my own money into my own shows because today, if you want to stay in the business, you have to produce your own product because there is not enough production and enough people that create today so if you wanna work you produce it or you stay home.” PeopleIfsWantEnoughShowsHomeTodayMy OwnProduceProductsProductions Author:Debbie Reynolds
“I am interested in Icons, not just religious works but also contemporary icons. I also like the way the Pop movement of the 60s took subjects from consumer products and people - soup cans, comic books, film stars - and elevated them through art, just like in traditional iconography.” PeopleWayArtBookFilmStarsReligiousSubjectsMovementProductsPopsContemporaryTraditionalComicConsumersComic BookSoupIconsFilm StarsIconography Author:Horace Panter
“Speaking about myself, I've been pleasantly surprised that my older plays are still being performed. Most important is that they still have something to say to today's audience, in particular the young people who enjoy my plays. That's the best I could hope for, that the plays aren't single-use products of one era.” PeopleStillsImportantPlayUseTodayYoungEnjoyAudienceParticularProductsEras Author:Vaclav Havel
“I think we all are people that are the product of our backgrounds. It's wrong to think that you're not.” PeopleThinkingProductsBackgrounds Author:Madeleine Albright
“What made so many people so upset when Steve Jobs died was that he was a kind of combination of daddy - in this relationship between the machine and ourselves - and also he was our guide. He was the one who led us to look into the mirror. He created these devices that became extensions of ourselves. Suddenly, he wasn't going to hold our hand as we went from product to product, which became increasingly about who we were.” PeopleLooksKindMadeHandsJobsProductsMachinesDiedMirrorsGuidesCombinationUpsetDevicesExtensionsDaddy Author:Alex Gibney
“I'm a big fan of Kiss. Gene Simmons, he's all into marketing and branding. You name it, there's some type of product with Kiss' name on it. Studying people like that, you see guys have hooks and there are reasons people are successful.” PeopleReasonBigsGuyNamesStudySuccessfulFansProductsTypeKissingMarketingGenesBrandingHook Author:Gabriel Iglesias
“Some people say Russia is running at 50 percent of its gross domestic product under that during the Communist period. In fact, none of the countries seems to have recovered the level that they had under communism, although the other countries in Eastern Europe are doing better than Russia and particularly the Czech Republic seems to be doing modestly well. East Germany I can't count because they have a rich uncle. You have economic benefits which have nothing to do with the workings of the system.” PeopleWellsI CanCountryFactsSeemsRunningLevelsRichEconomicProductsPeriodsBenefitsPercentEuropeEastRussiaCommunismGermanyRepublicCommunistOther CountriesUnclesEasternGrossEastern EuropeCzechEast GermanyGross Domestic ProductCzech Republic Author:Kenneth Arrow
“[Melinda Gates] is a lot of fun to work with. There's some of the people skills that she's better at and cares about more. It'd be a mistake not to think of her as very numerical and interested in the science. I enjoy, if I get ahead of her, say, understanding the immune system, then we can spend a few hours, where I'm going through how amazing it is and interesting, and how that affects our creating new products, so I've always had a partner.” PeopleIfsThinkingCareFunEnjoyUnderstandingHoursInterestingMistakeProductsSkillsCreatingPartnersGatesImmuneGet AheadImmune SystemNew ProductsPeople Skills Author:Bill Gates
“Governments must not run only for elections. The government should be a bona fide attempt of meeting the demands and expectations of the common people. Elections should just be a bi-product.” PeopleShouldGovernmentRunningCommonProductsDemandExpectationsElectionMeetings Author:Narendra Modi
“I think a lot of the people who feel out of step with contemporary society or feel that they've been left back economically or feel disaffected and are drawn to the Republican Party, they are looking for a news source that will tell them something they would like to hear and then is reassuring, emotionally rewarding, and confirming. And affirming to them. So to deliver that product is pretty valuable. It's kind of like they're an insurgency and they're not getting what they need to hear from the mainstream.” PeopleThinkingNeedsFeelsKindLeftPartyStepsProductsSourceRepublicanNewsValuableContemporaryMainstreamRepublican PartyAffirmingReassuringInsurgencyContemporary Society Author:Sheldon Whitehouse
“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. And also they ate a lot of vegetables.” PeopleYearsLooksBlackProductsRevolutionHealthyEatingHappeningsHundredYears AgoBlameFilledFatsDietsVegetablesMexicanCornRiceBeansTransFast FoodPeppersChileHealthy DietBlame MeMexican FoodMexican Revolution Author:Sandra Cisneros
“Many people, including myself, thought of Jobs as an inventor, an Edison-like figure, but he wasn't. I did a documentary on James Brown recently; and, oddly, I found a lot in common between Jobs and Brown. Jobs was also a fantastic performer, put on an extraordinary live show at his product launches, but he could also be ruthless, cruel and totally self-aggrandizing. And just as Brown surrounded himself with the very best musicians, Jobs understood the importance of hiring the absolutely most talented people and knew how crucial they were to the success of what he was trying to do.” PeopleTryingSelfShowsJobsFoundCommonFiguresProductsMusicianUnderstoodImportanceExtraordinaryIncludingFantasticBrownPerformersCrucialDocumentariesInventorRuthlessHiring Author:Alex Gibney
“I truly believe slavery is why, as a by-product, we still have a disproportionate amount of black men incarcerated in America. 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.” PeopleThinkingMenBelieveStillsFeelingsAmericaBlackTermChurchProductsAmountSlaveryLegacySundayRepentanceBlack PeopleTiedJust BeingInferiorsExtensionsDiminishReconciliation Author:David Oyelowo
“In India, 100 of the richest people own assets worth 25% of the gross domestic product. There's something terribly wrong. No individual and no corporation should be allowed to amass that kind of unlimited wealth, including bestselling writers like myself, who are showered with royalties.” PeopleShouldKindIndividualWealthProductsIndiaIncludingCorporationsAssetsUnlimitedGrossRoyaltyGross Domestic Product Author:Arundhati Roy
“We are watching people who've been educated in the public school system and in colleges for the last 25 or 30 years become adults. They're getting jobs as TV commentators and journalists and writers and editors and producers in the media. And we're simply seeing the product of what they've been taught. And they so hate what they've been told is America's history and past that they want everybody to know they disagree with it and they've got nothing to do with it, and they had nothing to do with it, and don't blame them.” PeopleKnowsWantYearsSchoolJobsLastsAmericaPastHateSeeingMediaTaughtCollegeTvsProductsAdultsBlameProducersEducatedJournalistEditorsDisagreePublic SchoolCommentatorsSchool System Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Success really comes down to the product, not to me, my personality, or what club I'm seen going into or coming out of. None of that matters. What's important is whether or not people feel like they wasted their time or money when they pay for a movie or a CD.” PeopleFeelsImportantMatterPayProductsPersonalityClubsComing OutCdsWhat's Important Author:Ice Cube
“When a novelist manages to describe or evoke something you thought or felt, without realizing that other people also found themselves in the same situation and had the same feelings, it creates that same solidarity. Maybe it's better to think of humor not as a tool to express the solidarity, but a kind of by-product. Maybe the realization "I'm not on my own on this one" is always, or often, funny.” PeopleThinkingKindFeelingsFoundFeltRealizingMy OwnSituationProductsToolsManageRealizationNovelistsSolidarityEvoke Author:Elif Batuman
“We have this highly irrational system of incentivizing innovation for clean and green technologies, where we allow the innovator to have a temporary monopoly and then mark up the price of the product or sell licenses at high prices to those who want to use the kind of product that the innovator has invented. This system is collectively irrational because many people, to avoid the inflated prices of still-patented cleaner and greener technologies, opt for some older technology that is much more polluting.” PeopleWantKindStillsUseTechnologyProductsMarkInnovationGreenSellsCleanTemporaryIrrationalLicenseMonopolyCleanersInnovatorsGreenerHigh PricesLicensesGreen Technology Author:Thomas Pogge
“I think it's interesting that a lot of times people want celebrities to give back in the way that they want them to give back. They want them to give money to the cause they think is important and when that doesn't happen they say, "Oh, they're not doing anything." People think celebrities are going to solve their problems. People think because someone is famous or an athlete or a politician that the solution begins with them. All they're there to do is sell you a product.” PeopleThinkingWayWantGivingImportantProblemHappensCausesInterestingProductsPoliticianSolutionsSellsAthleteSolveGiving Back Author:Rhymefest
“Best way to succeed is to do things for the customer, not to the competition. Very few people buy a product in order to help you hurt the competition. To think otherwise is lunacy.” PeopleThinkingWayHelpingOrderHurtProductsSucceedCompetitionCustomersBest WayLunacy Author:Guy Kawasaki
“We're in a decaying culture now. Naturally, the young people in the culture are going to feel themselves to be products of the decay.” PeopleFeelsYoungCultureProductsDecay Author:Jean Houston
“We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.” PeopleWritingBookHardSchoolSuccessMoneyBusinessTeachProductsHard WorkSelf ImprovementInvestingBusiness Success Author:Robert Kiyosaki
“Steve Jobs had something like a 90% approval rating from his employees. You hear stories about him being this short-tempered, aggressive person, which he was. But he was in the pursuit of making people around him better, so the product they created would be better.” PeoplePersonsStoriesWould BeJobsProductsPursuitEmployeeAggressiveApprovalRatingApproval Rating Author:Ashton Kutcher
“I think that the way that Steve Jobs sought after love was to create products that people loved. And when people loved his products, in turn they - he felt like they loved him.” PeopleThinkingWayJobsTurnsFeltProducts Author:Ashton Kutcher
“Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the financial side, if you're really listening and reacting to the best ideas of the people we have.” PeopleIfsYearsLooksKindIdeasLastsSidesResultsEconomyFiveProductsListeningPerformancesInnovationFinancialFantasticFive YearsReactingPipelineLast Five YearsFinancial Results Author:Steve Ballmer