Great Product Quotes

#1. Rule No. 1. Make a great product. Rule No. 2. Don't forget rule No.1.

David Hieatt

#2. As an actor, acting is like playing a sport. You do this thing that's intangible, and while it's happening, it's great. But then when it's done, there's really no tangible product. Someone else is capturing it and turning it into something tangible.

Chris Evans

#3. One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame of mind: and that as this state of mind changes, poetry is likely to dry up.

James Agee

#4. Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.

Jan Peter Balkenende

#5. It's not easy working with your husband, I'll be straight up about that. But when we work together, we always get great product. It's not easy in the process and as we go along it gets easier, but yeah, it gets a little sticky.

Jada Pinkett Smith

#6. I think that building any product that has a lot of user loyalty is a bit like making a sequel to a great movie or video game - people generally want 'more of the same thing, except better and different.'

Yishan Wong

#7. I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product and you're not waiting on another script. You have your script. It's great, in that way.

David Anders

#8. You've got to be extremely careful, because you could be with a great team, and you could be the product of a great team. There are some players that stand out despite the teams that they play on, and there are some players that are good because of the team that they're with.

Marcus Allen

#9. It was a great mantel to be able to take on really, an amazing legacy. And you know to finally see it, because I just saw the final product yesterday as well, is really amazing to be part of something like this.

Brandon Routh

#10. Many companies forget what it means to make great products. After initial success, sales and marketing people take over and the product people eventually make their way out.

Steve Jobs

#11. The best role is something that's challenging. Fun is great, but when it's challenging, you get to overcome barriers, and when you see the finished product, it's very rewarding.

Jordan Masterson

#12. To truly launch a great product, you need partners. Channel and marketing partners share in your success and share in the costs of reaching your target audience.

Jay Samit

#13. Blackberry is a great product and really useful. But I think that Yahoo!'s future is going to be rooted in mobile apps. And we know that we need to have apps on some of the core platforms, and so iOS and Android, probably the two most important platforms for us.

Marissa Mayer

#14. I'm minimalistic when it comes to makeup, so I'm a sucker for anything that's multi-tasking. Aquaphor is my go-to product. It's great for adding gloss to eyes and cheekbones, and amazing for soothing dry cuticles, too.

Mandy Moore

#15. Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

Eugene V. Debs

#16. Movies are collaborative, and that's part of what makes it a great experience. They're different from a lot of other art forms, but also it makes it seem like when you see the final product, you go, 'I wouldn't have done that. I wouldn't have done this.'

Casey Affleck

#17. Handing out your creations for free is really a great way to market your product.

Simon Zingerman

#18. A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product.

Eugene Delacroix

#19. Well, he's not going to get any nicer. He's a genocidal racist maniac. He's one of these people who thinks the world was a great place when Voldemort ruled the world. He's particularly offended by mixed-blood Mudbloods, the product of wizards and humans. So I hope he goes into therapy.

Jason Isaacs

#20. Boeing does a great job in introducing product that kind of changes the game.

Louis R. Chenevert

#21. It wasn't as if crack was getting great press in the South Bronx in 1999, but it took a particular kind of idiot to wake up one day and say, 'Angel dust is a product I've heard nothing but good about, and it's about time I was involved.

Edward Conlon

#22. If you want to create a great product, just focus on one person. Make that one person have the most amazing experience ever.

Brian Chesky

#23. Google has a great product. They've built a great business.

Chad Hurley

#24. The only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.

Aaron Levie

#25. What we call expertise is really just "vast amounts of knowledge, pattern-based retrieval, and planning mechanisms acquired over many years of experience in the associated domain." In other words, a great memory isn't just a by-product of expertise; it is the essence of expertise.

Joshua Foer

#26. Not only because the product wasn't a great product, but remember it took us five or six years to ship it. Then we had to sort of fix it. That was what I might call Windows 7.

Steve Ballmer

#27. To you of great faith, I am the product of your wisdom and the guarantor of your immortality.

Dean Koontz

#28. As communicators and marketers, people are so accustomed to thinking from the 'top down.' Finding the great analyst or the famous journalist who will endorse what you do and tell the rest of the world to go and buy your product.

Guy Kawasaki

#29. 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.

Ledisi

#30. When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Harold Coffin

#31. Unless a product becomes outmoded, a great campaign will not wear itself out.

Rosser Reeves

#32. I want to stand on the belief that great things are the product of ordinary people who are made great when they stand.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#33. You have to manage money. Particularly with market economies. You may have a great product, but if your bottom line goes bust, then that's it.

Mukesh Ambani

#34. All you can do is do the best you can and I did that. I had a great time. I made a product and I was not embarrassed by it at all so you do it and you move on.

Blair Underwood

#35. Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won't make a company successful.

Robert Kiyosaki

#36. I don't think Steve Jobs nauseated people when talking about how great Apple stuff was. The reason why he didn't nauseate people is because it was true. The start of all great marketing is to have a great product.

Guy Kawasaki

#37. No one was responsible for the great Wall Street crash. No one engineered the speculation that preceded it. Both were the product of free choice and decision of hundreds of thousands of individuals.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#38. One of these days you who are now a 'babe' in Christ shall be a 'father' in the church. Hope for this great thing; but hope for it as a gift of grace, and not as the wages of work, or as the product of your own energy.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#39. The best characterization is provided by the product of this religious education, the Jew himself. His life is only of this world, and his spirit is inwardly as alien to true Christianity as his nature two thousand years previous was to the great founder of the new doctrine.

Adolf Hitler

#40. Every man aims at avoiding what causes him pain; the activities of government ultimately consist in the infliction of pain. All great achievements of mankind were the product of a spontaneous effort on the part of individuals; government substitutes coercion for voluntary action.

Ludwig Von Mises

#41. At the end of the day, if you have a great product and service paired with the wrong pricing strategy / business model, you don't have a business.

Richie Norton

#42. Don't confuse the process with the goal. Working on our processes to make them better, easier, and more efficient is an indispensable activity and something we should continually work on - but it is not the goal. Making the product great is the goal.

Ed Catmull

#43. Consumers no longer want only a great product - they want to buy products from companies that align with their own character and values.

Muhtar Kent

#44. Focusing on the long term and building a great product that is scalable ultimately leads to a great company.

Craig Sherman

#45. All that is great in man comes through work; and civilization is its product.

Samuel Smiles

#46. Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a great product to achieve its maximum potential.

Thomas Watson Jr.

#47. Competition is a great thing and critically important in any industry. I respect the companies that build their brand through innovation/great product, packaging, sharp marketing and clever ideas.

John Robinson

#48. A great product will survive all abuse. Google Glass is a great product. How do I know? Every person I put it on (I did it dozens of times at 500 Startups yesterday) smiles. No other product has done that since the iPod.

Robert Scoble

#49. By acquiring all of your furniture from different eras and places and things that are expensive and inexpensive, it will make your end product have a great spirit.

Kelly Wearstler

#50. What creates success on HSN is great product, a great story and a great storyteller.

Mindy Grossman

#51. True, the name of the product wasn't so great. Kindle? It was cute and sinister at the same time - worse than Edsel, or Probe, or Microsoft's Bob. But one forgives a bad name. One even comes to be fond of a bad name, if the product itself is delightful.

Nicholson Baker

#52. I think anybody, not just children, is a product of a great environment. If you put them in a better environment from a sad situation, nine times out of 10, they'll go in the right direction.

Usher

#53. What often, too often, happens in magazines is that you end up with a great editorial product, and then you're selling things that you don't really approve of.

Ruth Reichl

#54. It can't be stressed enough that in order to produce great graphics, you have to have a good product and a good client capable of making decisions.

Primo Angeli

#55. The primary reason in starting a business part-time is not so much to make a product great. The real reason for starting a part-time business is to make you a great businessperson.

Robert Kiyosaki

#56. A great brand starts with a hero product.

Andy Dunn

#57. Great marketing cannot sell a pedestrian product very well.

John Sculley

#58. Micropayments are great if you use them for a product or service with certain properties. It must be one where you can get away with usage-based pricing, and where there is a strong rationale for making it cheap, yet not free.

Nathan Myhrvold

#59. Google was founded to get information to everybody. A by-product of that strategy is that we invented an advertising business which has provided great economics that allows us to build the servers, hire the employees, create value.

Eric Schmidt

#60. I can't understand the conditions of a corporate product being designed and getting millions. I admire it, it's great, but I don't know how to do that. I have to have the wheel.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#61. One of the things that I think makes me successful is the way in which I collaborate with others. In my opinion, nothing great is ever the product of one mind. It's always a consequence of some sort of self-critical collaboration.

Nick Hanauer

#62. I made so many mistakes in running the company so far, basically any mistake you can think of I probably made. I think, if anything, the Facebook story is a great example of how if you're building a product that people love you can make a lot of mistakes

Mark Zuckerberg

#63. Cheap is the last refuge of a product developer or marketer who is out of great ideas.

Seth Godin

#64. A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation

H.L. Mencken

#65. I'm just a product of grace that's still in the process; And I don't got to be great because my God is.

Andy Mineo

#66. It's not easy to remember, but IBM was the computer industry when I was growing up. You loved 'em. You hated 'em. You knew what they were doing. They had set a standard for mainframes. They also set a standard for great sales focus and heavy product R & D.

Bill Gates

#67. As a complete product of Issaquah public schools, there is absolutely no way I would be here if I didn't have well-funded arts programs and some great teachers who were constantly pushing me intellectually and personally.

David Call

#68. With the consumer Internet, if you're not embarrassed by your first product release, you've launched too late. Everyone wants their product to be shiny, great, and revolutionary, so they take too long in the development cycle to build this really shiny thing, when in fact time really matters.

Reid Hoffman

#69. Ever since I was a little teen, I was told by my great-grandma that you've got to always have a good moisturizer. I use cocoa butter, and I use it for all things needing moisture - face, hair, throw it on those legs at the beach, get them all shiny. Cocoa butter is such a great product.

Sufe Bradshaw

#70. Well, it's taken time to get this going, but he was right. If you give people a chance to associate themselves with a cause they care about, while buying a great product, they will. That was how the RED Campaign was born, here in Davos.

Bill Gates

#71. In the Internet Century, a product manager's job is to work together with the people who design, engineer, and develop things to make great products.

Eric Schmidt

#72. Character is the salesperson's stock in trade. The product itself is secondary. Truthfulness, enthusiasm and patience are great assets to every salesperson. Without them, they couldn't go far. Courage and courtesy are essential equipment.

George Madison Adams

#73. You need more than just a great idea. Your product or service must add an enormous amount of value to some industry. If the idea isn't completely new, it has to be better, cheaper, or more efficient than what we already have.

Jose Ferreira

#74. I was excited by the process of Pandora, which I still think is a decent product. Not as great in actuality as it sounds. After the first hour, its weaknesses start to show up.

Trent Reznor

#75. Product investment, quality management, and all the things that are key for a car company - great, there has been no compromise in those aspects. But I feel there's a lot we could do on communication, particularly from a Chinese perspective.

Li Shufu

#76. There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster.

Jerry Della Femina

#77. The balance of power is shifting toward consumers and away from companies The right way to respond to this if you are a company is to put the vast majority of your energy, attention and dollars into building a great product or service and put a smaller amount into shouting about it, marketing it.

Jeff Bezos

#78. Innovation requires having at least three things: a great idea, the engineering talent to execute it, and the business savvy (plus deal-making moxie) to turn it into a successful product.

Walter Isaacson

#79. The key to evangelism is a great product. It is easy, almost unavoidable, to catalyze evangelism for a great product. It is hard, almost impossible, to catalyze evangelism for crap.

Guy Kawasaki

#80. Here's how Apple does marketing in a nutshell: Make a great product, then let people know about it. That's it. Neither aspect of that is easy, but the important thing is it has to happen in that order. It all starts with a great product.

John Gruber

#81. A great brand taps into
emotions. Emotions drive most, if not all, of our decisions.
A brand reaches out with a powerful connecting experience.
It's an emotional connecting point that transcends the
product.

Scott Bedbury

#82. The emergence of a hardware product from an African company marks a phase-change point for tech invention. The BRCK shows that great ideas can come from anywhere, that innovation comes from solving real problems with constrained resources.

Erik Hersman

#83. Then, as the day progresses, depending on how the product is coming in - for instance, the fish man will fax us and say black bass is great - throughout the day, we'll also make judgment calls and adapt to what's available.

Thomas Keller

#84. Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible.

James Dyson

#85. My experience indicates that most people who've accumulated a great deal of wealth haven't had that as their goal at all. Wealth is only a by-product, not the original motivation.

Michael Milken

#86. Process, Not Product If you find yourself avoiding certain tasks because they make you uncomfortable, there is a great way to reframe things: Learn to focus on process, not product

Barbara Oakley

#87. By the time I got to be director of product management at Thomas-Conrad, I was in a better negotiating position, as I had accumulated more accomplishments and gained a reputation for having a great work ethic.

Maynard Webb

#88. A culture of commitment and trust isn't a magic bullet. It doesn't guarantee that a product will sell or an idea will bear fruit. But it's the best bet for making sure the right conditions are in place when a great idea comes along. That

Charles Duhigg

#89. We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.

Ian Jackson

#90. Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Woodrow Wilson

#91. I am a basketball junkie, and as a product of the great basketball state of Kansas, I have watched many a ball game between the University of Kansas Jayhawks and the Tar Heels.

Sheri L. Dew

#92. My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.

Alan Cumming

#93. As the company grows and about this 25 or so employee size, your main job shifts from building a great product to building a great company.

Sam Altman

#94. A great product isn't just a collection of features. It's how it all works together.

Tim Cook

#95. You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer.

Marissa Mayer

#96. You've got to stay super focused on shipping product. There isn't a version two or three if there isn't a great version one.

Brendan Iribe

#97. A great horse is the product of great management."

Cindy McDonald

#98. A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad.

William Bernbach

#99. Buddha is the crown jewel of the Indian nation which accepts all ways of worship of all religions. This quality of Hinduism in India was a product of many great spiritual masters chief among them was Buddha. And this is what sustains the secular character of India.

Narendra Modi

#100. Having a great idea for a product is important, but having a great idea for product distribution is even more important.

Reid Hoffman