“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up with elegant solutions. [...] It's not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep. [...] You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.” HardAbleOrderChallengesSimpleConsciousnessProductsHard WorkEssentialsSolutionsEssenceUltimateDepthSimplicityCome UpAbsenceComplexityElegantDiggingMinimalismClutterSophisticationReally DeepElegant Solutions Author:Steve Jobs
“To those men and women in business, remember the ultimate end of your work: to make a better product, to create better lives. I ask you to plan for the longer term and avoid that temptation of quick and easy paper profits.” MenEndsRememberAsksEasyTermBusinessPlansProductsPaperMen And WomenUltimateProfitTemptationBetter LifeBusiness Woman Author:George H. W. Bush
“[Boxer is] the ultimate tool for the serious pro' that can't afford the time and patience to mess around with lesser products.” SeriousProductsToolsUltimateMessBoxersTime And Patience Author:Robert Harris
“Prostitutes are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions, and competition.” ProductsUltimateImportanceCompetitionPossessionInevitableProstitution Author:Jane Fonda
“The company that employed me strived only to serve up the cheapest fare that the customer would tolerate, churn it out as fast as possible, and charge as much as they could get away with. If it were possible to do so, the company would sell what all businesses of its kind dream about selling, creating that which all of our efforts were tacitly supposed to achieve: the ultimate product -- Nothing. And for this product they would command the ultimate price -- Everything.” IfsKindDreamEffortCompanyAchieveProductsCreatingUltimateSellsCustomersSellingCommandGet AwayTolerateEmployed Author:Thomas Ligotti
“I'm a Catholic, and I have always been fascinated by not just my religion, but religion in general, in the sense that it is the ultimate brand that they're trying to sell. Whereas Ford is trying to sell cars, the Vatican is trying to sell salvation, which is a much better product to be peddling.” TryingCarProductsUltimateCatholicSellsSalvationBrandsFascinatedPeddling Author:Tom Fontana
“The entire history of baby formula has been the history of one overlooked nutrient after another...and still to this day babies fed on the most "nutritionally complete" formula fail to do as well as babies fed human milk. Even more than margarine, formula stands as the ultimate test product of nutritionism and a fair index of its hubris.” HumansWellsHas BeensStillsFailingProductsBabyFairsTestsUltimateFedsThis DayFormulasMilkOverlookedHubrisNutrients Author:Michael Pollan
“I was very pleased to get a Supreme Court justice suggesting a column, so I went and did a column about Beano. I went with my wife and another guy to a Mexican restaurant, which we thought would be the ultimate test for an antiflatulance product. There's a reason most of Mexico is located out of doors. And it worked. Several newspapers refused to run that column. But they did run advertisements for Beano.” ReasonWould BeRunningGuyJusticeWifeDoorsProductsTestsUltimateCourtMy WifeNewspapersSupremeRestaurantsMexicoSupreme CourtMexicanColumnsOther GuysAdvertisementsSuggestingSupreme Court JusticeCourt Justice Author:Dave Barry
“The ultimate goal of a habit-forming product is to solve the user's pain by creating an association so that the user identifies the company's product or service as the source of relief.” PainGoalCompanyProductsSourceHabitCreatingUltimateSolveReliefAssociationUsersUltimate Goal Book:Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products Source: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
“We cannot study creativeness in an ultimate sense until we realize that practically all the definitions that we have been using of creativeness are essentially male or masculine definitions of male or masculine products. We've left out of consideration almost entirely the creativeness of women.” Has BeensLeftRealizingStudyProductsUltimateMalesDefinitionsConsiderationMasculineLeft OutCreativeness Author:Abraham Maslow
“Rick Eldridge over at Reelworks Studios has the same vision that I have. They want to make good family quality product with a redemptive message underneath to allow people to open their hearts and minds. That (mindset) really drew me to The Ultimate Life...Their vision and what they want to do very similar to me and Erin.” PeopleWantMindHeartQualityVisionProductsMessagesUltimateStudiosMindsetHeart And MindGood FamilyErin Author:Drew Waters
“That first of all feeds into what I do and secondly, it is emblematic of what I hope to achieve through what I do. That is to say all those conversations that are a result of it are the sorts of conversations that I think are the ultimate, most valuable by-product of what I'm doing.” ThinkingFirstsResultsAchieveProductsConversationUltimateValuable Author:Jonathon Keats