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• My whole creative career is a product of the Internet. ...I'll take that back. To some degree. My fascination with cultural esoterica and trivia and so on was well-formed long before I got my first AOL account.

  John Hodgman

  Careers, Long, Creative

  Interview with Greg Hunter, therumpus.net. October 21, 2013.

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• So I am a product of the Internet, and to some degree a product of this sensibility of constant cultural reference.

  John Hodgman

  Degrees, Internet, Constant

  Interview with Greg Hunter, therumpus.net. October 21, 2013.

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• It's important to let each artist do what makes him or her feel comfortable. Success should be a by-product of that.

  Kenny G

  Artist, Important, Should

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• I think that Jesus is the product.

  T. D. Jakes

  Jesus, Thinking

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• It's just satisfying for me to be able to write kind of like a finished, nice product.

  Jonny Lang

  Nice, Writing, Able

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• The tricks and artifices of advertising are available to the seller of the better product no less than to the seller of the poorer product. But only the former enjoys the advantage derived from the better quality of his product.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Quality, Advertising, Advantage

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.397, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Management must take the lead in making obsolete its own products and services rather than waiting for a competitor to do so.

  Peter Drucker

  Waiting, Management, Obsolete

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.172, Routledge

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• The only useful information about the market will be what I create through expeditions into the market, through testing and probing, trial and error, by selling real products to real people who pay real money.

  Clayton Christensen

  Real, Errors, People

  Harvard Business Review, Michael D. Watkins, Clayton Christensen, Kenneth L. Kraemer (2015). “Harvard Business Review Leadership Library: The Executive Collection (12 Books)”, Harvard Business Review Press

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• With a chip on his shoulder larger than his margin of victory, Barack Obama is approaching his second term by replicating the mistake of his first. Then his overreaching involved health care - expanding the entitlement state at the expense of economic growth. Now he seeks another surge of statism, enlarging the portion of gross domestic product grasped by government and dispensed by politics. The occasion is the misnamed "fiscal cliff," the proper name for which is: the Democratic Party's agenda.

  George Will

  Mistake, Party, Government

  "A cliff of Democrats' choosing" by George Will, www.washingtonpost.com. November 28, 2012.

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• I have said countless times that unless you are delivering a product and service that is really needed and unless you are doing it really well, you don't stick around for 80 years.

  Ashley Judd

  Years, Sticks, Said

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• The internet has opened the door for millions of businesses to do things differently, because there are other assets now, assets that can transcend location. Your permission to talk to customers, your reputation, your unique products-you can build a business around them online.

  Seth Godin

  Unique, Doors, Location

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• 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.

  Clayton Christensen

  Character, Order, Way

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Management has to provide the coordinating mechanism between what the supplier provides and what the user needs in not-good-enough situations where product architecture is consequently interdependent. Management always beats markets when there is not sufficient information.

  Clayton Christensen

  Not Good Enough, Information, Needs

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• 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.

  Clayton Christensen

  Successful, Yield, Giving

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• When product performance outstrips the ability of customers to use that performance in an industry, the competitive game changes. Under those circumstances you have to decouple components businesses from assembly businesses.

  Clayton Christensen

  Games, Use, Assembly

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Because of the nature of my background in modeling, I'm really used to using the best products around. And I just wanted to offer the same sort of high quality products to my customers. I think they deserve it.

  Kam Williams

  Thinking, Quality, Used

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• The history of successful cases, some of which are in this museum, illustrates that often the regulators and legislatures don't wake up until some plaintiff gets a lawyers and digs out the cover-ups and the incriminating information about a safety defect in an automobile or another product.

  Ralph Nader

  Successful, Museums, Safety

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In the 1990s, Michael Jordan was the preeminent athlete in the country. And when the product with his name on it seemed to be linked to crime and violence in poor communities, many called on him to address it. They asked him to weigh in on robberies, on kids robbed for their high-priced Air Jordan sneakers. But he wouldn`t.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Country, Athlete, Kids

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I don't have a lot of time for managing [my businesses], so I put a lot of trust in people I hire to manage my businesses. I can't necessarily attend to [the businesses] while I'm in season. We swap ideas on how we can improve and deliver a better product.

  Kamerion Wimbley

  Ideas, People, Manage

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• When you write a piece of software you assume a certain type of hardware. If you assume hardware that's too powerful then you can't sell many copies cause very few people have that machine. If you assume hardware that's too simple your product can't do as much.

  Bill Gates

  Powerful, Writing, Simple

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• Software is different than other products um, partly because it's, it's not physical and, and partly because of its complexity. You can express in software millions of different cases and making sure that you handle all of them correctly is extremely difficult.

  Bill Gates

  Different, Cases, Difficult

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• Certain teams are more careful in what they write. They generate less bugs. You can know that but it still doesn't mean there might be there might not be one bug that would be bad to ship the product with.

  Bill Gates

  Team, Writing, Mean

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• Good developers like seeing their products sell in large quantities. They enjoy the competition of doing a better job than the other company, especially if the other company has more people on the project and they're entrenched and people are saying that we don't have a chance of getting in there and... and doing well.

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, People, Competition

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• 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.

  Julian Schnabel

  Thinking, Different, Use

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Normally I can't watch playback. I can't watch anything because I know that it's so rough and there's going to be effects that are added, there's going to be sound effects, there's going to be so much stuff that happens between this point and that finished product that it just ruins the illusion for me.

  Mike Vogel

  Sound, Watches, Stuff

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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