Business Strategy Quotes

"The best marketing strategy ever: care." "Make it about your customer, not about you." "Adapt to change is what entrepreneurs must do both now and forever." "Competitive markets destroy profits" "Google is not a conventional company, and we do not intend to become one" "I’m not against beta testing or surveys. But you, the product or service owner, must understand the customer, have a vision, and love the offering. Then, beta testing and research can help you find your blind spots. A remarkable customer experience starts " "Being effective at social media, whether for business or personal use, means capturing people's attention and building trust." "We don't build services to make money; we make money to build better services" "You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best companies do all three" "The best way to look at any business is from the standpoint of the clients" "No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long-term if you don’t have a sufficiently good product" "Before dreaming about the future or marking plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you as entrepreneurs" "Technology is always evolving, and companies need to fundamentally innovate and change themselves to keep up" "The ability to change faster than your competition purely, purely as a function of the ability to get feedback from the market and respond to it, that iterative process—we think is magical" "Productize yourself" "You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die." "Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal" "The lifeblood of our success for the future is the ability to provide an experience for our customers that makes us a destination." "It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price" "What we need to do is run our business. We need to come up with a value prop that is so compelling that customers have to go for it"