Quotes About Market

By the end of 2010, Apple had sold ninety million iPhones, and it reaped more than half of the total profits generated in the global cell phone market.

them for at most $9.99. Jobs came in and offered publishers what he had refused to offer record companies: They could set any price they wanted for their

Partly because of the poor sales of the Cube, Apple produced

refurbish and resell used cars

The senior executive at the meeting was impressed, and seemed torn, but he finally said it was not something that HP could develop. It was a hobbyist product, at least for now, and didn't fit into the company's high-quality market segments.

Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'" People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.

Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do.

The Innovator's Dilemma.)

I have my own theory about why decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a monopoly or close to it in some field, and then the quality of the product becomes less important.

By 1972 the price of a pocket calculator had dropped to $100, and 5 million units were sold. By 1975 the price was down to $25, and sales were doubling every year. In 2014 a Texas Instruments pocket calculator cost $3.62 at Walmart.

Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!' " People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on

something that could be mass-marketed to consumers. The Cube ended up not serving

This exposed an aesthetic flaw in how the universe worked: The best and most innovative products don't always win.

Asked if he wanted to do market research, he said, "No, because customers don't know what they want until we've shown them.

If Apple is going to succeed, he told me, we're going to win on innovation. And you can't win on innovation unless you have a way to communicate to customers.

Thus was born the iPod, the device that would begin the transformation of Apple from being a computer maker into being the world's most valuable company.

We need a moderately-priced stock market… The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But, unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do. For the investor, a too-high purchase price for the stock of an excellent company can undo the effects of a subsequent decade of favorable business developments.

So smile when you read a headline that says "Investors lose as market falls." Edit it in your mind to "Disinvestors lose as market falls—but investors gain." Though writers often forget this truism, there is a buyer for every seller and what hurts one necessarily helps the other. (As they say in golf matches: "Every putt makes someone happy.")

calling someone who trades actively in the market an investor "is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a romantic.

Gold is a way of going long on fear, and it has been a pretty good way of going long on fear from time to time. But you really have to hope people become more afraid in a year or two years than they are now. And if they become more afraid you make money, if they become less afraid you lose money, but the gold itself doesn't produce anything.

Buy a stock the way you would buy a house. Understand and like it such that you'd be content to own it in the absence of any market.

as happens in Wall Street all too often, what the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.

Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.