The Product Quotes

#1. Anyone who has a choice and doesn't choose to write is a fool. The work is hard, the perks are few, the pay is terrible, and the product, when it's finally finished, is pure joy.

Mary Lee Settle

#2. Happiness comes as a by-product of the "life well lived." And

Henry Cloud

#3. Enzymologists usually study the initial rates of reactions measuring product formation as a function of substrate concentration or other variable. Cell biologists are more likely to want to know the effect of a change on the steady state behavior of a complex system.

Irwin Rose

#4. Don't do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.

Bernie Siegel

#5. If we, as a species, are the ultimate product of Darwinian selection, then so, too, is this incredible disease that lurks inside us.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#6. 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

#7. She simply observed herself as a fair product of Nature in the feminine kind, her thoughts seeming to glide into far-off though likely dramas in which men would play a part - vistas of probable triumphs - the smiles being of a phase suggesting that hearts were imagined as lost and won.

Thomas Hardy

#8. If we are merely a chance product of 'random happenstance' and nothing more, doesn't it strike you as a bit odd that we have the ability to contemplate the question of 'random happenstance' with such methodical complexity?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#9. A technical insight is a new way of applying technology or design that either drives down the cost or increases the functions and usability of the product by a significant factor.

Eric Schmidt

#10. Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It is an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth century thought.

Peter Medawar

#11. The borders between different countries are, in truth, not real. They are a by-product of the ego.

Christopher Dines

#12. Engineering-driven companies falsely assume that because they build it, the industry will magically become aware and be willing to buy it.

Brian Lawley

#13. If you don't have the best product, you're not going to make it in open-source.

Peter Fenton

#14. Education is not a product but a relationship and a process; a relationship between student and lecturer, and process by which knowledge transforms the individual.

Kenan Malik

#15. I was a child who loved books, and I am an adult who is the product of books.

John Connolly

#16. My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

Daphne Zuniga

#17. Art is a side product of a perfect frendship or the lack of it...

Mykyta Isagulov

#18. The will is a product of integrity, not a child of contradictions.

Nilakanta Sri Ram

#19. There's a few in our history, where the person who creates it becomes almost the product itself. Jobs is one of those.

Joshua Michael Stern

#20. Think of yourself as an insensitive, nitpicking, irritable fool to use the product.

Ma Huateng

#21. And remember, the very idea of getting free is again an ideal. Freedom is not an ideal, it is a by-product of accepting whosoever you are.

Osho

#22. Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

Lewis Mumford

#23. If you really think about it, when watching television, you have product placement all the time.

Jay Chiat

#24. George E. Johnson marketed the "relaxer," a chemical product used to straighten otherwise curly African American hair. According to some estimates, the black hair care industry is worth more than one billion dollars annually.

Nicola Yoon

#25. Even the word depression itself was the terminological product of an effort to soften the connotation of deep trouble. In the last century, the term crisis was normally employed. With time, however, this acquired the connotation of the misfortune it described.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#26. I had come out of the city, where story-telling is a manufactured science, to the country where story-telling is a by-product of life.

Dana Burnet

#27. 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

#28. Focus is scary - until you realize that it only means turning your back on markets you could never have anyway. Sharp focus on jobs that customers are trying to get done holds the promise of greatly improving the odds of success in new-product development.

Clayton Christensen

#29. He'd have that answer and he'd give it to Mercy. And she'd leave him. She'd leave him like all good things did. Like he fucking deserved because that's the product, the sum, the quotient, the difference in his life. Good always equaled gone.

Lucian Bane

#30. There are times when product is more important than people and sometimes the people are more important than the product.

Paul Reed Smith

#31. True wisdom ... is the product of hard-won, often bitter experience.

David Halberstam

#32. The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.

Audre Lorde

#33. If you don't show as much interest in the buyer and his concerns as you do in selling, he'll know that you are only in it for the commission. Be more interested in the customer than you are in yourself, your sales process, your product, or your commission and you will make more sales.

Anonymous

#34. 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

#35. Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

Stephen Covey

#36. At Mint, we developed five pending patents on our technology, ranging from categorization to the Ways to Save system that calculates how much a new financial product would save a user given their present financial situation.

Aaron Patzer

#37. Regardless of how well a studio is run, it's only as good as the product it produces.

Vince McMahon

#38. Many growth-minded people didn't even plan to go to the top. They got there as a result of doing what they love. It's ironic: The top is where the fixed-mindset people hunger to be, but it's where many growth-minded people arrive as a by-product of their enthusiasm for what they do.

Carol S. Dweck

#39. Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face problems objectively and coolly; it is the product of long centuries of philosophical speculation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#40. It is gorgeously shot, and Andrew believes that the old school way of making films in the best way. Meaning: you have a story, and you stick to the story. You don't change and alter the story because of people who've invested in it and what to put product in a shot.

Michael Berryman

#41. Because the earth is not a product of labour it cannot have a value.

David Harvey

#42. Easy reading is the product of hard writing,

Stephen King

#43. The dynamism and freedom that characterizes the West is the product of Christianity's reforming itself and moving forward culturally. The ascendancy of the West is the story of the difference that Christianity makes, and it's a story we can't let our culture forget.

Charles Colson

#44. In our experience, brands are aware of at least 90% of issues that the company could face. These issues could come from operational challenges, customer service complaints, product disputes, and so on.

Chuck Hemann

#45. Corn is the leading food and feed crop of the United States in geographic range of production, acreage, and quantity of product. The vital importance of a large acreage of this crop, properly cared for, therefore, is obvious.

David F. Houston

#46. I never saw anything funny in a car commercial - but that's OK. Whatever they wanted to do - it's their product and I'm the spokesperson, and I'm going to deliver.

Bill Cosby

#47. World military spending has now risen to over $1.2 trillion. This incredible sum represents 2.5 per cent of GDP (global gross domestic product). Even if 1 per cent of it were redirected towards development, the world would be much closer to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

Ban Ki-moon

#48. Democracy ... .[is not] ... simply a form of government but an organizing principle that bundles individual freedoms, Christianity, and capitalism into a marketable product carrying with it the unexamined promise of wealth and prosperity.

Thomas King

#49. Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.

Carolyn Maloney

#50. In business, one of the challenges is making sure that your product is the easiest to experience and complete a sale.

Mark Cuban

#51. The minimum viable product is that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort.

Eric Ries

#52. You know you've built a product that can hit the mainstream when your wife, your father, and your mother-in-law can get involved.

Josh Kopelman

#53. It's impossible for me to disentangle how much of my storytelling urge is the product of growing up with novelist parents and how much is a genetic legacy from those same parents.

Jesse Kellerman

#54. Things have a way of being richer in the end, a product better made, for the circuitous route we take to include all the elements that are necessary for a job well done.

David Whyte

#55. if salespeople want to sell value and differentiate their product, they have to deliver insight that will reframe the buying vision so buyers end up with the solution that helps them overcome their challenges and achieve their goals.

Michael Harris

#56. They are, reluctantly or enthusiastically, accepting the idea that humans are as much an accident of nature as a product of orderly development. But

Bill Bryson

#57. 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.

Nir Eyal

#58. The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

David Ogilvy

#59. The imagination is a dream factory of which realities are a by-product.

Richard Wilkins

#60. Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show.

Ted Allen

#61. $20 by Vanessa Place, the first product of VanessaPlace Inc., debuted on May 3, 2013 at Cage, NYC.
The limited edition of $20, available for $50, sold out within the hour.

$20 - Poetry that speaks for itself

Vanessa Place

#62. If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

Reid Hoffman

#63. Now, I know I am not a craftsmen... but greatness is in the act of creation and not necessarily in the finished product. Creating is the yin to the yang of our consumption and the doorway to beauty that we all want to walk through. Creating is how I tell the world I love it." ~ Atticus

Kevin Hearne

#64. One thing I tell startups all the time is that the best way to grow is to make their product better.

Sam Altman

#65. The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.

Bill Murray

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

Aaron Levie

#67. I visit the orchards of God and look at the spheric product
And look at quintillions ripened, and look at quintillions green.

Walt Whitman

#68. If you need scale in order to create value, it's hard to get scale, because there's little incentive for the first people to use the product.

Joshua Schachter

#69. The desire to create holds an element of hope. Success proves that Hope is not a by-product of living; it is a Building Block of life."
Francesca Quarto

Francesca Quarto

#70. It's still a bottom-line business. You can be out of control, and if they want you, they'll pick you. And you can be a mensch, and if you're not the product they want, you won't get it.

Judd Nelson

#71. People's interest is in the product, not in its authorship.

Jonathan Ive

#72. The best ads are about the customer and how the product will change his life.

Roy H. Williams

#73. I remember back in the early days of Microsoft that from the day that you decided that you were just going to put out an ad to a customer - and all you were usually able to tell them was that a new product was available - it was about nine months before you could actually reach the first customer.

Gabe Newell

#74. Manufacture, don't just trade. There is money in manufacturing even though it is capital intensive. To achieve a big breakthrough, I had to start manufacturing the same product I was trading on; which is commodities.

Aliko Dangote

#75. Many countries had a hand in raising me. I am the product of many contradicting philosophies and cultures ... My entire universe is comprised of these foreign traditions. If any one of these experiences are to be ignored, I wouldn't be the same.

Masiela Lusha

#76. I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.

Sean Parker

#77. I didn't want to become a chocolatier among others, buying ready-to-use couverture. I wanted to take the same approach I follow in my cuisine: putting the product first, revealing the authentic taste of the products.

Alain Ducasse

#78. If someone doesn't believe enough in your product to put money in to it, then you should rethink how good the product is.

David Schwimmer

#79. It's more important that you be passionate about what you do all day than it is to be passionate about the product that is being sold.

Seth Godin

#80. in loving relationships the absence of regularly reinforcing warm feelings automatically breeds disappointment and resentment as a by-product of frustrated expectations and desires.

John W. Jacobs

#81. The most important thing for small businesses is getting the economy back on its feet. That - the key driver of small business activity is demand for their product, and that is what we are trying to do, getting the economy back on its feet. That's far more important than other factors.

Peter Orszag

#82. It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about - figuring out the right product is the innovator's job, not the customer's job.

Ben Horowitz

#83. Filipinos don't realize that victory is the child of struggle, that joy blossoms from suffering, and redemption is a product of sacrifice.

Jose Rizal

#84. Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.

Friedrich Schiller

#85. There is no conflict between best in British class and being a global newspaper. We are an international newspaper rooted in the City of London, and I think people understand that. The 'FT' stands out as a global niche product.

Lionel Barber

#86. College is the grinding machine of the Mathematical Establishment, a conveyor belt that takes individuals from one cookie cutter to another so that the product comes within tight control limits out of the assembly line.

Bill Gaede

#87. I am the product of the sustained indignation of a branded grandfather, the militant protest of my grandmother, the disciplined resentment of my father and mother, and the power of the mass action of the church.

Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

#88. 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

#89. More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.

Konrad Lorenz

#90. When you're trying to solve a problem on a new product type, you become completely focused on problems that seem a number of steps removed from the main product. That problem solving can appear a little abstract, and it is easy to lose sight of the product.

Jonathan Ive

#91. The biggest thing about me, as an actor, is I'm never a finished product, you know? I always want to try something or be in a new genre because, one, it's much more fun to do that because you're not doing the same thing over and over.

Aneurin Barnard

#92. We concluded that one thing we can do is to just go through the locker room and make sure that if anybody is using anything, it's a product from one of the approved manufacturers.

Bob McNair

#93. The most important product of interactive planning is the planning process, not plans. It is in the planning process that knowledge, understanding, and wisdom are generated. It is in these acquisitions that the value of planning resides.

Anonymous

#94. I'm worried about economic growth in the United States. And the creation of jobs, output, and employment. And if you tax people who work, you're going to get less people working. And what the carbon tax would do is remove the tax from people who work and put it on a product in the ground.

Arthur Laffer

#95. Every corner of the public psyche is canvassed by some of the most talented citizens to see if the desire for some merchandisable product can be cultivated.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#96. You have to be firm, persistent, passionate, and driven by the idea and have a strong desire to bring your product to the market

Sunday Adelaja

#97. I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever 'written' ... It evolves in the minds of a thinking community.

Aldo Leopold

#98. My particular historical vantage point is a product of my upbringing as that odd duck, a native Washingtonian whose parents were not in government. The first presidential transition of my sentient lifetime, Kennedy's, I remember vividly.

Frank Rich

#99. Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote in American or European elections. They don't make donations to political parties or hire lobbyists in D.C., London or Canberra.

Hugh Evans

#100. A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.

Patrick Carney