“I believe that the profits will come from the quality of your creative products. Since the beginning, I've always wanted to develop a self-feeding circle of creative productions: the positive financial returns from one show would be used to develop and create a new show, and so on.” BelieveSelfShowsWould BeWantedUsedI BelieveQualityCreativeProductsReturnFinancialProfitProductionsCirclesFeeding Author:Guy Laliberte
“I took a job in the U.S. because I wanted to work on products that would get into end users' hands. In Norway, most of the jobs are in server software, niche stuff.” EndsHandsWantedJobsStuffProductsSoftwareUsersNicheNorwayServer Author:Jon Lech Johansen
“It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.” PeopleKnowsWantHardShowsWantedInspiringTechnologyFocusGroupsDesignProductsExperienceWant UInnovatorsBest JobUser ExperienceGraphic ArtistInspirational DesignSimplicity In DesignFocus GroupsProduct DesignBest DesignKnowing What You WantFocus In Business Author:Steve Jobs
“Every good product I've ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted. They wanted to use it themselves.” PeopleUseWantedWonderfulGroupsProductsVery Good Author:Steve Jobs
“Winners know what makes people tick by effectively tapping into our fears and aspirations. By listening very carefully and then repeating almost word-for-word exactly what they've heard, winners know how to articulate compelling needs—and products to satisfy those needs—that people didn't even know they wanted.” PeopleKnowsNeedsWantedKnow HowHeardProductsListeningWinnerAspirationCompellingTickTapping Author:Frank Luntz
“My life is an unfinished product, but instead of just saying, 'How do I top what I've accomplished,' I decided I wanted to move forward, express my growth and take a big step into the next chapter.” BigsWantedMovingLife IsNextGrowthStepsProductsDecidedMoving ForwardAccomplishedChaptersUnfinishedJust SayingNext Chapter Author:Josh Groban
“Our focus in the client group had always been to build products and features that people wanted to use. That we wanted to use. That our moms wanted to use.” PeopleUseWantedFocusGroupsProductsMomFeaturesClients Author:Jamie Zawinski
“What I wanted to be and who I am is a singer and a songwriter. I wanted to be onstage, and I wanted the world to hear my music. The product of that is fame and the disgusting celebrity that goes along with it. But celebrity does not equal creativity.” WorldDoeWantedCreativityProductsFameEqualSingersWho I AmDisgustingSongwriters Author:Katy Perry
“I don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something--or wanting to be a writer, rather than wanting to write. It should be a by-product, not a thing in itself. Otherwise, it's just an ego trip.” KnowsShouldWritingSeemsWantedDesignGreatnessProductsEgoEngineersEgo Trip Book:Prince of Chaos Source: Prince of Chaos
“During my early years, I thought I might be a musician. Like most kids, I didn't do what my parents wanted me to do. They were gung-ho that all their kids become actors. They loved showbiz so much. I am a product of nepotism, basically.” YearsMightKidsWantedActorsParentProductsMusicianShowbizNepotism Author:Jeff Bridges
“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.” PeopleMeanWantedFeltProductsNegativeAcceptedStatementsMarijuana Author:George Jung
“We grow by letting the customer tell us. So when the customer tells us that they're frustrated, that they just got their catalogue and we're already out of a product they wanted, then it tells me that we're not making enough. We let the customer tell us instead of creating an artificial demand for our products. Any time you're making products that people don't need, you're at the mercy of the economy, you're at the mercy of whatever is going on. So we tried to avoid that situation.” PeopleNeedsEnoughWantedGrowsBusinessSituationEconomyProductsDemandCreatingMercyCustomersArtificialFrustratedNeed YouCataloguesDon't Need You Author:Yvon Chouinard
“If you wanted to be a creative person and you are confronted with the sum product of mankind's creativity up to this moment in history, that's pretty daunting, like, "Where can I fit my voice in amongst all that?"” IfsPersonsMomentsWantedVoiceCreativityCreativeMankindProductsInternetFitCreative Person Author:Jarvis Cocker
“I don't want to sound pompous, but I think it is important that when one makes arguments of consequence that he go and see what those consequences are. Having championed the war, I wanted to see the products of my own argument.” ThinkingWantImportantWarWantedSoundMy OwnProductsConsequenceArgumentPompous Author:Lawrence Kaplan
“I've always loved the beauty world. Ever since I was a child, I looked at magazines and wore fragrances and tried out samples and sets. I worked at Clinique in the creative department for a summer during high school. And when I graduated from university, I worked at Prescriptives. My uncle [Leonard Lauder, chairman emeritus of the Estée Lauder Companies] smartly had wanted me to go into a small brand - to figure out what part of the company I loved. I discovered I was passionate about the creative process, the product development, creating a concept around a fragrance or lipstick.” WorldChildrenWantedSchoolProcessCompanyCreativeFiguresProductsDevelopmentSummerCreatingHigh SchoolConceptsUniversityPassionateMagazinesBrandsDepartmentCreative ProcessUnclesFragranceChairmanLipstickSampleProduct Development Author:Aerin Lauder
“Steve Jobs always believed that you didn't want to do focus groups or research and ask people what they wanted. You wanted to create products that they didn't know they wanted yet and they would fall in love with. And I think that was part of the magic of his design philosophy.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantPhilosophyWantedJobsFallAsksFocusMagicGroupsDesignProductsResearchFalling In LoveAlways BelieveFocus Groups Author:Steve Case
“Because these firms listened to their customers, invested aggressively in new technologies that would provide their customers more and better products of the sort they wanted, and because they carefully studied market trends and systematically allocated investment capital to innovations that promised the best returns, they lost their positions of leadership.” WantedLostTechnologyPositionProductsReturnInnovationInvestmentCustomersFirmTrendsNew Technology Book:The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail Source: The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
“We wanted to do it right. There is an expectation and WWE has a reputation to deliver the best show we possibly can when we perform in a new part of the world. We wanted to deliver Abu Dhabi with the best product we could. Also it's very difficult to make the travel work as we are constantly touring throughout the year.” WorldYearsShowsWantedDifficultProductsExpectationsReputationWweTouring Author:John Cena
“Basically, one of the hardest things about being an actor is getting your first break. I'm a product of nepotism. The doors were open to me. I'd done several movies before I decided what I wanted to do.” FirstsDoneWantedActorsBreakDoorsProductsDecidedHardestHardest ThingNepotism Author:Jeff Bridges
“Because of the nature of my background in modeling, I'm really used to using the best products around. And I just wanted to offer the same sort of high quality products to my customers. I think they deserve it.” ThinkingWantedUsedQualityProductsOffersDeserveCustomersBackgroundsModelingHigh Quality Author:Kam Williams
“Environmentally, business in America in 1970 was very similar to business in China today. Even if a CEO wanted to be a responsible corporate citizen, he (and they were all "he's" then) simply couldn't invest a billion dollars in pollution controls to produce a product that was indistinguishable from those of his competitors. His products would be priced out of the market. Passing laws that created a clean, level playing field for whole industries had to be a core focus of the 1970s.” IfsWholeWould BeTodayWantedAmericaLawLevelsFocusFieldsProduceProductsIndustryCitizensResponsibleDollarsCleanChinaBillionsCorePassingPassingsCorporatePollutionCeoCompetitorsPlaying FieldsLevel Playing FieldPollution ControlPassing Laws Author:Denis Hayes
“I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.” YearsFirstsBigsKidsWantedSchoolLeftCareersProductsBirthDaughterBillsNineConsumersRanDivisionMicrosoftNine YearsChunksBusiness School Author:Melinda Gates
“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