Quotes About Market

They said the stock market crashed, or something, but since I'm deaf I didn't hear it (ha-ha).

Diesel pioneered the idea of luxury denim, and we still drive this market. But it encompasses more: the consumers love the brand, the lifestyle, the mentality of Diesel.

Publishers are businesses and I don't blame them for that. If they didn't make money by publishing books, there wouldn't be any books.

vision led, customer informed.

That vision is about people and the market. Product management is about ensuring a good fit between a product, a person, and the market.

There's definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market, it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves, the more it's rewarded.

what the market does. It introduces luxuries for the wealthy, and the wealthy subsidize innovations that turn luxuries—cell phones, cars, medicine, computers, nutritious food, comfortable homes, etc.—into necessities. It is the greatest triumph of alchemy in all of human experience, and the response from many in every generation is ingratitude and entitlement.

The first organization whose atmosphere and attitude will tolerate the use of nanomation technology will be the first organization to swallow its market whole.

Fixation on the 'first' in any form or content is often less instructive then a general sense of its 'trended change' – which is to say as part of an overall transformation of practices and conditions, generally in answer to shifts in technology or market perceptions.

As your customer is changing how they buy, it's imperative that you change how you sell"

Software is the center of every business today and the market has been waiting for a solution that eliminates technical barriers to build software so that everyone can engage in the new economy. ~ Manu Gupta

Once it is recognized that the role of the state in a market economy is not only to enforce property and contract rights, but to ensure liquidity, then the bailout, properly understood, is no different from the enforcement of property rights. A host of legal consequences follow from this observation. This book gives an accounting of them.

By contrast, in a liquidity crisis only one creditor can save the debtor: the government. There is no competitive market that offers emergency loans during a liquidity crisis. This means that the government can dictate terms. It can also neglect the interests of other stakeholders or discriminate among them for political reasons. The risk of abuse is far higher than it is in a normal bankruptcy.

Foster and Kaplan's somewhat paradoxical finding that as a group, the long-term survivors in the S&P 500 underperformed the average. It is the constant entry of newcomers that keeps the average up.

Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market.

We must learn what customers really want, not what they say they want or what we think they should want.

If we do not know who the customer is, we do not know what quality is.

What if we found ourselves building something that nobody wanted? In that case what did it matter if we did it on time and on budget?

The goal of a startup is to figure out the right thing to build—the thing customers want and will pay for—as quickly as possible.

waiting too long to release can lead to the ultimate waste: making something that nobody wants.

Do consumers recognize that they have the problem you are trying to solve? 2. If there was a solution, would they buy it? 3. Would they buy it from us? 4. Can we build a solution for that problem?

Most of the time customers don't know what they want in advance.)

we were much more likely to run experiments on our customers than we were to cater to their whims.

The common tendency of product development is to skip straight to the fourth question and build a solution before confirming that customers have the problem.