Products Quotes

• Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Business, Work

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.37, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The profit motive promotes economic growth by creating better products at cheaper prices.

  Mark Skousen

  Creating, Growth, Economic

  Mark Skousen (2013). “Economic Logic Fourth Edition”, p.674, Regnery Publishing

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• People are not interested in your product or your business; they are interested in solving their own problems.

  James Dillehay

  People, Marketing, Problem

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• Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Character, Race, Habit

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• You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Educational

  "The Entrepreneur of the Decade Award". Inc. Magazine, April 1, 1989.

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• Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. You must banish from your mind the naive but commonplace notion that commercials are about products. They are about products in the same sense that the story of Jonah is about the anatomy of whales.

  Neil Postman

  Simple, Ideas, Whales

  Neil Postman (2011). “Conscientious Objections: Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology and Education”, p.113, Vintage

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• In response to a suggestion that total free trade would end in cheaper foreign products flooding the market and causing unemployment.

  Milton Friedman

  Suggestions, Unemployment, Ends

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• If you look at, you know, the limitations of creating new products, you're only limited by the technology that you have to work with.

  Homaro Cantu

  Technology, Creating, Looks

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• 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

  Children, Thinking, Nine

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• The better shaped his product, the more misshapen the worker.

  Karl Marx

  Work, Workers

  Karl Marx, Lawrence H. Simon (1994). “Marx: Selected Writings”, p.61, Hackett Publishing

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• Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Artist, Strive, Aesthetic

  Evelyn Waugh, Mark Amory (1980). “The letters of Evelyn Waugh”, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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• Germany is a machine for producing geniuses. Its crowning product was the German Jew which in suitably dramatic style it then tried to destroy.

  Michel Tournier

  Style, Germany, Genius

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• If you can change style, why stick to one style? Style is a vanity because it gives you product identification.

  Norman Mailer

  Vanity, Giving, Style

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• I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art, whether it was a painting, building, poem or Hepplewhite chair. He said that the best works of art are finished products that preserve 'a valuable state of mind'.

  Alistair Cooke

  Art, Thinking, Mind

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• I am a traditional man. I'm a product of a traditional man. He sacrificed everything for his family.

  Andy Garcia

  Men, Traditional

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• A guy said to me, 'You're so lucky. You have people like Ray Charles, Barbra Streisand and The Beatles doing your songs.' I figured out, though, the harder I work the luckier I get. The secret of anything is to surround yourself with good people if you want a good product.

  Buck Owens

  Song, People, Guy

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• When Prince Charles speaks, everybody pretends to be fascinated, even though he has never said anything interesting except in that intercepted telephone conversation wherein he expressed the desire to be a feminine hygeine product.

  Dave Barry

  Interesting, Desire, Telephones

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.103, Ballantine Books

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• 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

  Art, Different, Finals

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2010.

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• The business of proving evolution has reached a stage when it is futile for biologists to work merely to discover more and more evidence of evolution. Those who choose to believe that God created every biological species separately in the state we observe them, but made them in a way calculated to lead us to the conclusion that they are the products of an evolutionary development are obviously not open to argument. All that can be said is that their belief is an implicit blasphemy, for it imputes to God an appalling deviousness.

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Believe, Development, Way

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• In reference to right answers - Knowing is a process, not a product.

  Jerome Bruner

  Knowing, Answers, Process

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• Providing more desirable products, services, and customer experiences is vital to the continued existence of any business. And that is INNOVATION.

  Peter Drucker

  Innovation, Existence, Customer Experience

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• Pantera revolutionized the sound and the approach to heavy metal. It's been regurgitated. Once you up the production on a product and not just the playing but the actual production, then it's going to up the ante.

  Phil Anselmo

  Sound, Heavy Metal, Pantera

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.

  Lord Acton

  Mother, Country, Powerful

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• The idea of literalism in the Bible is a very new phenomenon. In many ways, it's a product of the scientific revolution.

  Reza Aslan

  Ideas, Way, Revolution

  "Christ In Context: 'Zealot' Explores The Life Of Jesus". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 15, 2013.

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• Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because it's so universal. But as I get older, I see that peace is a product of balance.

  Ani DiFranco

  Balance, Fundamentals, Addresses

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