Products Quotes - Page 21

• Price is rarely the most important thing. A cheap product might sell some units. Somebody gets it home and they feel great when they pay the money, but then they get it home and use it and the joy is gone.

  Tim Cook

  Home, Joy, Important

  "5 Most Telling Takeaways From Tim Cook's Goldman Suchs Keynote" by Christina Bonnington Gear, www.wired.com. February 14, 2012.

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• We try to be as much involved in our product as possible, because then it's us.

  Alice Cooper

  Trying, Involved

  Interview with Mike Quigley, www.mjq.net. September 1969.

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• So what this is is us, our personalities refined down on to a stage performance. In other words, the way we play is the end product of the way we live - we live in the cities, you see.

  Alice Cooper

  Play, Cities, Stage Performance

  Interview with Mike Quigley, www.mjq.net. September 1969.

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• We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

  Stephen Covey

  Change, Responsibility, Animal

  "CNN Live On Location", www.cnn.com. January 9, 2003.

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

  Stephen Covey

  Technology, Organization, People

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Especially when you are advertising a product, I talk to the photographer and we create a character - it always gives you more freedom because it makes it less about yourself.

  Penelope Cruz

  Character, Giving, Photographer

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• If I'm in something that I think is kinda good, it stays with me like a fever dream for a long time afterwards. I don't recall the finished product so much as the feeling of making it.

  John Cusack

  Dream, Thinking, Long

  "'I'm basically a brand'". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2007.

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• And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation.

  Angela Davis

  Thinking, Class, Black

  "Frontline", www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• People love their animals so much so that they put little clothes on them and necklaces and booties and things like that. And if you love your animal, then you should feed them something that's not dangerous for them. There's a lot of poisonous stuff that they're putting in a lot of that food, those by-products.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Animal, Clothes, People

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

  Eugene V. Debs

  Cities, Chicago, Modern

  "What's the Matter with Chicago?" by Eugene V. Debs in "Chicago Socialist", www.marxists.org. October 25, 1902.

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• Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products.

  Beth Ditto

  Hair, Pigs, Personality

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2007.

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• An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

  Frank Gehry

  Art, People, Schedules

  Interview with Alex Hoyt, www.theatlantic.com. May 2011.

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• The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.

  Paul Getty

  Art, Real, Tragedy

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• Synergies are not only about cost reduction. Synergies can be access to markets, exchange of products, avoiding overlaps, exchange of best practices.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Best Practices, Cost, Reduction

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• To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement.

  Jim Gibbons

  Government, Dollars, Bonus

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• Once shoppers become empowered, we will facilitate industries thinking in completely new terms; for example, making products that are totally biodegradable.

  Daniel Goleman

  Thinking, Example, Biodegradable

  "O Interview: How Daniel Goleman Is Changing Our Ideas About Living Green". Interview with Aimee Lee Ball, www.oprah.com. April, 2009.

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• Companies in the East put a lot more emphasis on human relationships, while those from the West focus on the product, the bottom line. Westerners appear to have more of a need for achievement, while in the East there's more need for affiliation.

  Daniel Goleman

  Achievement, Focus, East

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• Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally.

  Al Gore

  Impact, Car, Kind

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• Since I met Starsmith, my producer, I really feel like I'm making music because we write it together and produce it together. I've got a proper involvement in the end product as opposed to just writing a song and finding someone else to produce it.

  Ellie Goulding

  Song, Writing, Together

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

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• We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We import $500 billion a year more in products than we export.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Years, World, Economic

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• We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it and we ship it out in cans.

  Cary Grant

  Color, Titles, Ships

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• I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.

  Bear Grylls

  Past, Opportunity, Names

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• Just as established products and brands need updating to stay alive and vibrant, you periodically need to refresh or reinvent yourself.

  Mireille Guiliano

  Needs, Alive, Reinventing Yourself

  Mireille Guiliano (2009). “Women, Work, and the Art of Savoir Faire: Business Sense & Sensibility”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• It's been said that Bill Gates has come up with something that'll be released in December that's gonna put a lid on counterfeiting. If that's a fact then it's really interesting to own your own product - with all the potential methods of downloading.

  Merle Haggard

  Interesting, Facts, Bills

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• I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.

  Gary Hamel

  Intelligent, Design, Everyday

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