Quotes About Market

When you're the first guy to put out the piece of silicon that's half as expensive or twice as powerful, you bring a capability to the market that nobody else does - or can.

To get people to switch from Google, you have to offer something twice as better. But the truth is, the world doesn't actually need better-quality search. I think we've got good enough search.

Kids definitely go into bookstores after reading 'Twilight' and want something else like it.

If enough people out there want a physical product, I'll be happy to make one. I'd say about 10,000 people is "enough."

... the thing we see wrong with YC apps most frequently, is that people have not thought about the market first and what people want first.

Commerce can never be at a stop while one man wants what another can supply; and credit will never be denied, while it is likely to be repaid with profit.

You cannot go beyond a certain limit in your expenditure if you want to bring back money from your local market, which is very small after Pakistan.

People say what we're doing is holding out when in reality the teams are trying to crush the draft market because they don't want to pay fair market value.

Competition and the market are like water, they go where they want

When companies try to guess what consumers want, they essentially make the choice for consumers.

[Apple and RIM] are probably restricted, in some sense, to a certain maximum. ... If you want to reach more people than that, you sort-of have to separate the hardware and the software issue.

The assets you want to buy are the ones people have to sell.

Profits are part of the mechanism by which society decides what it wants to see produced.

We represent companies from around the world who say, "I want to look at Japanese companies. I want to invest in Japan."

Recycling, packaging, businesses are changing all of those things because that's what consumers want.

Opinion free brands simply will struggle to survive in the future - of that simple reason that we increasingly want to associate ourselves with opinionated and authentic brands.

There are obviously people who want to be very niche, but I think for the most part everybody is trying to reach a larger audience.

I'm willing to submit to the sovereignty of the consumer, but I just want to know what they say.

Don't ask your customers what they want. This rule is based on the view that they probably don't know. You have to fully understand them, the context for their needs and their major dissatisfactions.

As the largest market on the planet, I'm not particularly worried about countries that want to start a trade war with America. I think they would end up losing.

See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true.

I don't believe in singles. The singles market has changed. I am trying to get back to the old days of releasing albums at will, like Star Wars coming out again.

Buy when the cannons are firing, and sell when the trumpets are blowing

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.