New Products Quotes - Page 2

• In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education - not in the classroom, where the old ways are taught, but in the factories and labs where new ways are wrought ... nothing has been so rare in recent years as an Ivy League graduate who has made a significant innovation in American enterprise.

  George Gilder

  Years, Ivy, League

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• I think that we see Steve Jobs as the genius speaker in the mock black turtleneck with the round glasses, sort of beautifully delivering his new product, and I think that for people to understand that he started in a garage.

  Joshua Michael Stern

  Jobs, Thinking, Glasses

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• In fact, technology in, and of, itself does not cause particular kinds of change. It is, essentially, an enabling or facilitating agent. It makes possible new structures, new organizational and geographical arrangements of economic activities, new products and new processes, while not making particular, outcomes inevitable.

  Peter Dicken

  Technology, Agents, Enabling

  Peter Dicken (2003). “Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century”, p.85, SAGE

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• Does the customer invent new product or service? The customer generates nothing. No customer asked for electric lights. There was gas and gas mantles, which gave good light.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Light, Doe, Gas

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• I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained, and he only holds the key to his own secret. By your tampering and thwarting and too much governing he may be hindered from his end and kept out of his own. Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Lying, Believe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.507, Penguin

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• Only the general manager can mold the resources, processes, and values that affect innovation , into a coherent capability to develop and launch superior new products and services repeatedly.

  Clayton Christensen

  Innovation, Mold, Process

  Clayton M. Christensen (1999). “Innovation and the General Manager”, Irwin Professional Pub

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• From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August.

  Andrew Card

  Views, August, Marketing

  "Marketing Iraq: Why now?" by William Schneider, www.cnn.com. September 12, 2002.

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• I've been on the Web from the beginning of the Web. The good part about writing about technology is that you never run out of ideas, because it's changing so fast. The bad part is that it's changing so fast that there's a million new products and ideas every day and every week.

  Walt Mossberg

  Running, Writing, Technology

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• 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. In other words, the Lean Startup is a new way of looking at the development of innovative new products that emphasizes fast iteration and customer insight, a huge vision, and great ambition, all at the same time.

  Eric Ries

  Ambition, Goal, Vision

  Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.20, Crown Business

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• One thing the humanitarian world doesn't do well is marketing. As a journalist, I get pitched every day by companies that have new products. Meanwhile, you have issues like clean water, literacy for girls, female empowerment. People flinch at the idea of marketing these because marketing sounds like something only companies do.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Girl, Ideas, Issues

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• Working in a salon, you look at trends all day long. You're looking at color all the time, what new products are coming out. You're a part of the fashion industry, especially if you're working in a higher-end salon.

  Christian Siriano

  Fashion, Color, Long

  "There's little that ruffles Christian Siriano's feathers". Interview with Rachel Beckman and Michael Cavna, www.seattletimes.com. March 7, 2008.

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• Shareholder value is the result of you doing a great job, watching your share price go up, your shareholders win, and dividends increasing. What happens when you have increasing shareholder value? You're delivering better employees to their communities and they can give back. Communities are winning because employees are involved in mentoring and all these other things. Customers are winning because you're providing them new products.

  Jack Welch

  Jobs, Winning, Giving

  Source: www.cnbc.com

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• 80% of all products and services that will be on the market in five years do not exist today. So therefore, always be innovative, always be creative, always think, 'What new products or services could I create, could I represent, could I joint venture?" Sometimes you can find someone else that has a fabulous product or service that you can use your existing business or resources to sell and you can double your income or sales in your business by selling somebody else's product to the same customers that are buying yours.

  Brian Tracy

  Thinking, Years, Creative

  Source: ceotraining.com

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• Research is an organized method of trying to find out what you are going to do after you cannot do what you are doing now. It may also be said to be the method of keeping a customer reasonably dissatisfied with what he has. That means constant improvement and change so that the customer will be stimulated to desire the new product enough to buy it to replace the one he has.

  Charles Kettering

  Mean, Desire, Trying

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• The current financial crisis calls out for new products and services as well as more, not less, information about what is safe and profitable in the future environment.

  Jeremy Siegel

  Investing, Safe, Information

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• Before 1980, it was basically illegal for U.S. banks to invent new products.

  Scott D. Cook

  Illegal, Products

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• A new book is just like any new product, like a detergent. You have to acquaint people with it. They have to know it's there. You only get to be number one when the public knows about you.

  Jacqueline Susann

  Book, Numbers, People

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• I may be a businessman in that I set up and run companies for profit, but when I try to plan ahead and dream up new products and new companies, I'm an idealist.

  Richard Branson

  Leadership, Running, Dream

  Richard Branson (1999). “Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way”, Crown Business

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• Competition is good for consumers for the simple reason that it compels producers to offer better deals - lower prices, better quality, new products, and more choice.

  John Vickers

  Simple, Choices, Competition

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• Fact is, the work place to a great extent is "where we live." We need star accountants. Boffo saleswomen. Over-the-top creatives in marketing and new product development. And so on. But, since we're effectively talking about "where we live," good sense and good business and "good" engagement throughout the "supply chain," from vendor's vendor to customer's customer, we would benefit mightily-including on the P & L-if we insisted (!) on: "Pleasant." "Caring." "Engaged."

  Tom Peters

  Stars, Caring, Talking

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• To have to introduce a new product at the worst economic time in the last 50 years probably wasn't the greatest thing to have happened.

  Bill Mechanic

  Years, Lasts, Economic

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• [Melinda Gates] is a lot of fun to work with. There's some of the people skills that she's better at and cares about more. It'd be a mistake not to think of her as very numerical and interested in the science. I enjoy, if I get ahead of her, say, understanding the immune system, then we can spend a few hours, where I'm going through how amazing it is and interesting, and how that affects our creating new products, so I've always had a partner.

  Bill Gates

  Fun, Mistake, Thinking

  Source: www.geekwire.com

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• At Google, operations are not just an afterthought: they are critical to the company's success, and we want to have just as much effort and creativity in this domain as in new product development.

  Eric Schmidt

  Creativity, Effort, Google

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• Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.

  Manmohan Singh

  Team, Technology, Ideas

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• We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Knowing, Desire, Advertising

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.232, Vintage

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