“When the functionality of a product or service overshoots what customers can use, it changes the way companies have to compete. When the product isn't yet good enough, the way you compete is by making better products. In order to make better products, the architecture of the product has to be interdependent and proprietary in character.” WayEnoughCharacterUseOrderCompanyProductsCustomersArchitectureGood EnoughFunctionality Author:Clayton Christensen
“It is when the product is not good enough that proprietary integration gives you a competitive edge. You cannot outsource and be competitively successful in this situation. But at the other end, where standard components assembled in standard ways can yield acceptable performance, you must outsource.” WayGivingEndsEnoughSituationSuccessfulProductsStandardsPerformancesEdgesYieldGood EnoughAcceptableIntegrationComponentsNot Good Enough Author:Clayton Christensen
“I'm not mannerist. I don't think I'm interested in mannerism. If I ever use it in a way, or if manner is like some kind of product of certain sorts of usage of different kinds of materials, then it's about involution or turning in on that.” IfsThinkingWayKindDifferentUseCertainMaterialsProductsDifferent KindsUsageMannerisms Author:Julian Schnabel
“What we want to do is make a leapfrog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been, and super-easy to use. This is what iPhone is. OK? So, we're going to reinvent the phone.” WayWantUseEasyProductsPhonesDevicesSmarterMobileIphone Author:Steve Jobs
“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
“he hardest obstacle for me has been to find a father. I am the product of three fathers, and my connection to each of them has left me wanting. Each have their own strengths and weaknesses, but I've always been in competition with them in some way.” WayHas BeensThreeFatherLeftProductsWeaknessConnectionsCompetitionObstaclesHardestStrength And Weakness Author:Damon Runyon
“Things get better when Joy hears about a televised way to sell products and makes a connection with QVC. She convinces an executive there, played by Bradley Cooper, to let her appear as herself.” WayJoyProductsConnectionsSellsGet BetterConvinceExecutives Author:Kenneth Turan
“And as a stand-up comic, that's the one thing I'm a little uncomfortable with. I'm not uncomfortable with sincerity in my regular life, but, like in terms of my product that I offer, I think that it's weird, because comics used to be way more sincere in the '80s.” ThinkingWayLittlesUsedTermOne ThingProductsOffersUsed To BeComicUncomfortableSincereSincerity80s Author:Moshe Kasher
“At some point, that risk-taking private capital can take over, and have patents and trade secrets and things that let them lead the way, which happened with the steam engine and some other things, although with energy, the time of adoption is a lot longer than it is with, say, IT products or even medical advances, like drugs and vaccines.” WayEnergySecretRiskHappenedProductsDrugTradeMedicalEnginesAdoptionSteamVaccinesPatentsRisk-takingSteam EnginesMedical Advances Author:Bill Gates
“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
“The thing about being on the majors, from the beginning, going into this, I was like, "I'm not going to be treated like a factory," because that's never the way it was done before. You're talking about a major label, we're talking about serious business; you're not an artist anymore, you're a business, you have to work in terms of product, you have to release a product, and I don't really think that way at all.” ThinkingWayDoneArtistTermTalkingSeriousProductsMajorsTreatedReleaseLabelsFactoriesSerious Business Author:Beth Ditto
“Designers from start to finish now in digital media have to think in a much more sort of thoughtful serious and humble way about how design audiences will receive their products.” ThinkingWayAudienceMediaDesignSeriousProductsHumbleDesignerThoughtfulDigitalDigital Media Author:Khoi Vinh
“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
“You have to be at the forefront of culture to create art, which they call "product," and Hollywood is not. It's this very old business model, which I think is dying in a lot of ways.” ThinkingWayArtCultureDyingProductsModelsHollywoodBusiness Models Author:Rose McGowan
“I'm very involved in my business and with my family and my friends. I don't play the social world very much, and not to promote my product. I do it for the philanthropic problems because there I feel that I'm making a difference, and that I'm helping. So I do it in a soulful way.” WorldWayFeelsPlayHelpingProblemSocialDifferencesProductsInvolvedMy FriendsMy FamilyMaking A DifferencePhilanthropicSoulful Author:Donna Karan
“If you look at payments to labor as a proportion of national income or gross domestic product, you find profits going way up, investment and savings going up.” IfsWayLooksProductsLaborInvestmentProfitIncomeSavingProportionGrossPaymentSavingsGross Domestic Product Author:Michael Hudson
“We never really set out to talk about California on the album ['California'], it was something that we noticed that was happening about three-quarters of the way through the recording process. We were looking at which songs we thought would make the record and we realised that there was this theme coming through. I think it's just a product of being in California for as long as I have.” ThinkingWayLongSongThreeProcessRecordsProductsHappeningsAlbumsCaliforniaThemeQuartersRealised Author:Mark Hoppus
“One of the hugest ways that will make an impact, which is only in its infancy right now, is corporate accountability. Consumers at the buying point saying, 'Can you certify to me that this product is slavery-free?' And most cannot right now.” WayProductsRight NowSlaveryImpactConsumersCorporateBuyingAccountabilityInfancy Author:Mira Sorvino
“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
“Little by little we discover that we don't need to eat animal products at all, because there are so many healthier alternatives that taste great. The trick is going easy with yourself so that you can find your way comfortably. Then you'll stick with it.” WayNeedsLittlesEasyAnimalProductsTasteSticksTricksAlternatives Author:Kathy Freston
“Making consumer choices that reward eco-friendly products and companies is a great way to start.” WayChoicesCompanyProductsRewardsConsumersFriendlyEcoEco FriendlyConsumer Choice Author:Al Gore
“Beliefs create behaviors, and the dysfunctional behaviors of the human race, observable everywhere every day, are the product of our non-workable beliefs. Chief among these is the belief in separation, which has arisen out of our ancient Separation Theologies. This is a way of looking at God that insists that we are "over here" and God is "over there."” WayHumansBeliefRaceProductsBehaviorAncientSeparationTheologyChiefsHuman Race Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“There are new ways of producing food, film, clothing, and research that steer clear of using animals. Some of those products are functionally equivalent or even superior to what we're used to. Now corporations, legislatures, and other institutions are responding, and supporting these shifts, so we're seeing seismic changes throughout society.” WayFilmUsedAnimalClearSeeingProductsResearchInstitutionsSuperiorsCorporationsClothingsNew WaysLegislatureRespondingSteers Author:Wayne Pacelle
“We [me and Alison McGhee] probably wouldn't have said that when we were writing the stories, but it is so apparent to me in the finished product. For me, looking at Bink, it's like looking at myself on the page in a way that I've never experienced with any other book that I've written.” WayWritingSaidBookStoriesWrittenProductsPagesFinished Author:Kate DiCamillo
“If you work on a new product launch, spent time in a new geography, or work to develop a completely new skill, you have no choice but to figure out new ways to solve problems.” IfsWayProblemChoicesFiguresProductsSkillsSolveNew WaysGeographyNew ProductsNew Skills Author:Scott D. Anthony
“Highly unequal societies are morally defective because they get to be that way through the exploitation by the clever and well-positioned ones of the vulnerabilities and weaknesses of others. The well-off then use their acquired political power to refuse to make sacrifices for others. This system brings us a wonderful range of products and experiences for consumers at the top of the privilege scale, but it also degrades and benumbs the workers at the lower end, as Adam Smith and Marx both said.” WayWellsSaidEndsUsePoliticalWonderfulSacrificeProductsWeaknessWorkersPrivilegeRefuseScalesCleverConsumersRangeVulnerabilityAdamExploitationPolitical PowerDegradeSacrifice For OthersDefective Author:Catherine Wilson
“There are some pretty obvious ways of benchmarking creativity. One way is to perform what I call a creativity audit, which is to look at your capabilities and look at your performance and examine the percentage of revenue that comes from products that are less than five years old, less than three years old and that are current with the present accounting period. You can then compare those figures to those of your competition along the same axes.” WayYearsLooksThreeCreativityFiveFiguresProductsPeriodsPerformancesCompetitionCurrentsObviousOne WayCompareFive YearsThree YearsCapabilityRevenuePercentagesAccountingFive Year OldsAxesThree Year Olds Author:John Kao
“All of these creative ideas and decisions about new ways to reach the consumer can be tracked with regard to how well they are working, whether and how they are building awareness for the product, how well they motivate the consumption of the product, and so on.” WayWellsIdeasDecisionCreativeAwarenessBuildingProductsRegardConsumersConsumptionNew WaysCreative Ideas Author:John Kao
“The banks' product is debt. They try to tell customers that "debts are good for you," but the customers can't afford any more debt, so there's no way the banks can continue their current business plan.” WayTryingPlansProductsCurrentsDebtCustomersBusiness Plan Author:Michael Hudson
“The product Disney created actually changed a life, and that was significant to them. They didn't stand in my way at all.” WayChangedProductsSignificantMy Way Author:Roger Ross Williams
“Facebook, when it began, like Google, was very resistant to advertising. They knew, like all - Mark Zuckerberg, like all good engineers, knew that advertising makes the product worse. But, you know, over time, they've been forced to increase the advertising load more and more and more. And the way they advertise is they - it's subtle but they know everything, you know, about everybody on the site.” KnowsWayProductsIncreaseMarkAdvertisingSubtleEngineersLoadGoogleSiteZuckerberg Author:Tim Wu
“I think the Trump thing is particularly egregious, and I think he's as much a product of the GOP lie machine in the era of Roger Ailes as he is of television. And also, of the Twitter era. Of the everything-is-as-reductive-as-it-can-be. To me, the most telling thing is we have a man who cannot complete a sentence. Certainly could never get to 140 characters, or past it. He thinks in tiny little bursts - the way he tweets.” ThinkingMenWayLittlesCharacterPastLyingTelevisionProductsTrumpMachinesSentencesTinyErasTweetRogerGop140 Character Author:Joss Whedon
“Marketing implies that you want a public to relate to your product - if it's a product - in a way that makes them want to use it. That is only good or evil in relationship to what the product actually does.” IfsWayWantDoeUseEvilProductsMarketingRelate 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
“NAFTA and GATT are quite similar. They both have highly protectionist elements. They're kind of a mixture of liberalization and protection designed to expand the power of transnational corporations. They're very basically investor's rights agreements. One crucial part in both is the "intellectual property right," which is a funny way of saying that corporations, like pharmaceutical companies, will have near-monopolistic rule over future technology. This now includes product as well as process rights.” WayWellsKindProcessCompanyTechnologyRightsProductsElementsIntellectualPropertyProtectionCorporationsAgreementCrucialInvestorsMixturesIntellectual PropertyPharmaceuticalNaftaPharmaceutical CompaniesTransnational Corporations Author:Noam Chomsky
“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
“I believe a great company, whether improving a sector or creating a new one, needs to have an excellent product or service at its core; needs strong management to execute the plan and a good brand to give it the edge over its competitors. Providing quality service, combined with value for money and in an innovative way ensures you offer real value - and finally to be responsible to society and the planet.” WayNeedsGivingBelieveRealValuesStrongI BelieveQualityCompanyPlansPlanetsProductsOffersCreatingResponsibleManagementEdgesCoreBrandsExcellentOver ItProvidingImprovingCompetitorsInnovativeBeing ResponsibleStrong ManReal ValueGreat CompanyQuality Service Author:Richard Branson
“An intelligence is the biological and psychological potential to analyze information in specific ways, in order to solve problems or to create products that are valued in a culture.” WayProblemOrderCultureInformationProductsSolvePsychological Author:Howard Gardner
“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
“The notion that you would initiate a new product without preparing the way by persuasion and advertising and salesmanship is fantastic. It's an integral part of the system.” WayProductsNotionAdvertisingFantasticPreparingPersuasionInitiateSalesmanshipNew Products Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“R&D generally has been a bipartisan thing, because in the IT space, in the medical space, the U.S., the benefits to ourselves and the world and our economy have been very, very clear. I'm hopeful we can make a very strong case there. Energy is actually harder; it takes more time to get a product, but if you do it's a very, very big market and the constraints of doing that in a clean way are more obvious all the time.” IfsWorldWayHas BeensBigsEnergyStrongSpaceCasesEconomyClearProductsBenefitsHarderCleanObviousMedicalHopefulMore TimeVery StrongConstraintsBipartisan Author:Bill Gates
“Energy is actually harder; it takes more time to get a product, but if you do it's a very, very big market and the constraints of doing that in a clean way are more obvious all the time.” IfsWayBigsEnergyProductsHarderCleanObviousMore TimeConstraints Author:Bill Gates
“I guess I've always written more from the opposite perspective, that kind of existentialist perspective which argues that existence precedes essence. And there really isn't anything essential in there - you're the product of your actions, which can always change. And they retrospectively make you one way or another.” WayKindActionExistenceWrittenProductsPerspectiveEssentialsEssenceOppositesArguingOne WayExistentialist Author:Zadie Smith
“You are born into a dangerous world, there are all sorts of ways in which you could die, and you need to believe your parents when they tell you don't go near the edge of the cliff, or don't pick up that snake, etc. There could very well be a Darwinian survival value in that sort of brain rule of thumb. And a by-product of that could be that you believe your parents when they tell you about the juju in the sky, or whatever it might be.” WorldWayNeedsBelieveWellsMightValuesDiesParentBornBrainSkyDangerousProductsSurvivalPicksEdgesEtcSnakesCliffsThumbsDangerous WorldJuju Author:Richard Dawkins
“There really is no foolproof or even optimal way of dealing with White House emissaries who tell whoppers on live television. On the one hand, there's value in hearing what our government has to say about its actions and vision for the future. On the other, news organizations are responsible for the factual hygiene of their product. In some cases, those two imperatives just aren't compatible.” WayTwoHandsGovernmentActionValuesHouseWhiteVisionCasesTelevisionProductsNewsOrganizationResponsibleHearingWhite HouseImperativesCompatibleFactualHygieneOptimalFoolproofLive Television Author:Erik Wemple
“To improve global health, it's not enough just to have a really good new product and to obtain marketing approval. You still need to market the product and bring it to patients, follow up, create the infrastructure, and so on - the whole pipeline, the network. That's something that companies are extremely good at: organizing a whole pipeline in a cost-effective way.” WayNeedsStillsEnoughWholeCompanyProductsCostPatientMarketingApprovalInfrastructurePipelineNew ProductsFollow UpGlobal Health Author:Thomas Pogge
“If the Health Impact Fund were to be instituted, a single company would be in charge of a medical product all the way from its conception to the health improvements realized by actual patients. The company would be paid for health impact, and it would have to arrange the entire pipeline in between - all the steps of invention, of clinical testing, of getting marketing approval in many different countries, of wholesalers and retailers and prescriptions and so on - in a holistically optimal way.” IfsWayDifferentCountryWould BeCompanyStepsProductsPaidImpactPatientMarketingMedicalImprovementInventionFundConceptionApprovalTestingPrescriptionsClinicalsDifferent CountriesPipelineOptimalRetailers 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
“Women are rising slowly but steadily into full partnership with men all over the world. This is going to change everything. When the rich mind- style of women is available - with an emphasis on process, rather than on end-product, and on making things cohere, grow and interlink - - then it changes the way we educate, it changes the way we govern, it changes the way we worship.” MenWorldWayMindEndsGrowsProcessRichStyleProductsWorshipAvailableRisingEducatePartnershipEmphasis Author:Jean Houston