98 Product Development Quotes

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Famous Product Development Quotes

Testing a product is a learning process — Brian Marick

Greatest risk is not development of new product, but development of customers and markets — Steve Blank

Innovation is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form. — Watts Humphrey

Innovation is the creation and delivery of new customer value in the marketplace. — Michael J. Gelb

Design is a process - an intimate collaboration between engineers, designers, and clients. — Henry Dreyfuss

Using the Product Development Waterfall diagram for Customer Development activities is like using a clock to tell the temperature. They both measure something, but not the thing you wanted. — Steve Blank

New things get noticed. This means you can't be afraid to present something new to your market, even if it's just a variation or an addition to an already-existing product or service. — Lewis Howes

It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. — Steve Jobs

The success of the group is made of the quality of the product. — Bernard Arnault

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible. — George Washington Carver

Some of the most successful products are born from a personal need to solve a problem rather than a desire to turn a profit. — Lewis Howes

Products which are customer driven are usually not innovative. Consequently, it is difficult to charge a premium. — Bernard Arnault

You have to adjust until you find product-market fit. — Naval Ravikant

Innovation is the creation of the new, or the re-arranging of the old in a new way — Mike Vance

Most of all, I discovered that in order to succeed with a product, you must truly get to know your customers and build something for them. — Marc Benioff

Short Product Development Quotes

  • Above product-market fit is founder-product-market fit. — Naval Ravikant
  • Nike is a marketing-oriented company, and the product is our most important marketing tool. — Phil Knight
  • A design isn't finished until someone is using it. — Brenda Laurel
  • Good companies will meet needs; great companies will create markets. — Philip Kotler
  • A new product is not creative—it is not important—if it does not shock when you first see it. — Bernard Arnault
  • Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation. — Peter Drucker
  • Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. — Steve Jobs
  • Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make. — Tim Berners-Lee
  • A great product without great growth strategy will likely fail. — Cliff Lerner
  • Good design is good business. — Thomas J. Watson
Product development quote I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

New Product Development Quotes

We also started asking all new employees to build an app using Twilio—not just the developers, everybody. — Jeff Lawson

Type production has gone mad, with its senseless outpouring of new types... only in degenerate times can personality (opposed to the nameless masses) become the aim of human development. — Jan Tschichold

If the society toward which we are developing is not to be a nightmare of exhaustion, we must use the interlude of the present era to develop a new technology which is based on a circular flow of materials such that the only sources of man's provisions will be his own waste products. — Kenneth E. Boulding

Product development quote The struggle you're in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow.
The struggle you're in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow.

Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development. — Barry Commoner

Every time I go into a new venture, I find a "rabbi" who has the business acumen to help me understand the mechanics of that industry, the costs involved in developing a product, and what you need to do in order to make a profit. — Russell Simmons

We opened a design center in the South of England last year as part of our strategy for being close to our customers and developing innovative products for exciting new markets. — David Milne

Product development quote Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what other won't.
Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what other won't.

I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company. — Elon Musk

We Experiment Endlessly, With New Products, New Methods, New Companies And New Marketing. A Successful Business The Emphasis Is On Experiment And Development, Ideas Are The Lifeblood Of Business. — Richard Branson

The rapid dissemination of technology and information offers entirely new ways of production, but it can also bring the spectre of more states developing weapons of mass destruction. — George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

Ambient Devices develops a new generation of consumer electronic products. — David Rose

What Is A Product Quotes

The most successful people in this world recognize that taking chances to get what they want is much more productive than sitting around being too scared to take a shot. — Steve Harvey

Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it. — Peter Drucker

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. - Mahatma Gandhi

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. — Mahatma Gandhi

Product development quote Happiness is not a goal... it's a by-product of a life well lived.
Happiness is not a goal... it's a by-product of a life well lived.

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential. — Steve Ballmer

The goal of a private company is, first, zero to one: Get past the product-market fit; figure out whether people actually care about what you're trying to build and someone will pay you money for that. That's the zero to one problem. — Chamath Palihapitiya

I think the worst way to be more productive is to set your sights on being more productive. What you want to do instead is to focus on a reason to be more productive. — Adam Grant

Product development quote The struggle you're in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow.
The struggle you're in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow.

I don’t know what a business is. All a company is, is a bunch of people together to create a product or service. There’s no such thing as a business, just pursuit of a goal — a group of people pursuing a goal. — Tim Urban

A need is what you believe your customers require to solve a problem, and the product or business becomes the mechanism to fulfill that requirement. — Pat Flynn

You don’t have to spend a jillion dollars on advertising to get your word out. What matters is that customers have a good experience with your product at every single point of contact. — David Neeleman

My perspective of veganism was most affected by learning that the veal calf is a by-product of dairying, and that in essence there is a slice of veal in every glass of what I had thought was an innocuous white liquid - milk. — Rynn Berry

What Is Product Development Quotes

As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors. — Atom Egoyan

God created us with an overwhelming desire to soar. Our desire to develop and use every ounce of potential He's placed in us is not egotistical. He designed us to be tremendously productive and "to mount up with wings like eagles," realistically dreaming of what He can do with our potential. — Carol Kent

One of the things I'm real proud of is I just made a deal with 20th Century Fox, and I've got my own production company now. I'm developing some television and movies for other people because I have a lot of fresh new ideas. To write is what I love the most. — Dolly Parton

Product development quote Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser.
Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser.

The very ability to empathize with a user requires that I have an understanding of that user's value and needs. This is what leads to many product fails. The individuals developing the innovation don't actually use it. — David Livermore

Apple's goal isn't to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to market good products... We trust as a consequence of that, people will like them, and as another consequence, we'll make some money. But we're really clear about what our goals are. — Steve Jobs

Development has to result in jobs. What we need is not just more production, but mass production and production by masses. — Narendra Modi

Product development quote Begin to be what you will be hereafter.
Begin to be what you will be hereafter.

As an actor, you're never really in control of the product. I think the goal is to create what you want. And if you can get as close as you can get to the creation of something, it starts with development. — Scott Cohen

Art inspires, produces an unwillingness to settle for what we have and a desire for something better. It is the product and producer of creative activity, change; it is essential for continuous development. — Russell L. Ackoff

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More Product Development Quotes

A society which discards those who are weak and non-productive risks exaggerating the development of reason, organisation, aggression and the desire to dominate. It becomes a society without a heart, without kindness - a rational and sad society, lacking celebration, divided within itself and given to competition, rivalry and, finally, violence. — Jean Vanier

Humility is not a character trait to develop, it's the natural by-product of being with Jesus. — Louie Giglio

The strategic stimulus to economic development in Schumpeter's analysis is innovation, defined as the commercial or industrial application of something new---a new product, process or method of production, a new market or source of supply, a new form of commercial, business or financial organization. — Joseph A. Schumpeter

Product development quote Happiness is not a goal: it is a by product.
Happiness is not a goal: it is a by product.

We mustn't fear to adopt the advanced management methods applied in capitalist countries. The very essence of socialism is the liberation and development of the productive systems. Socialism and market economy are not incompatible. We should be concerned about right-wing deviations, but most of all, we must be concerned about left-wing deviations. — Deng Xiaoping

I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives. A disastrous by-product of the development of the scientific and technical mentality. We are guilty. Man grows cold faster than the planet he inhabits. — Albert Einstein

The more people participate in the process of their own education, and the more people participate in defining what kind of production to produce, and for what and why, the more people participate in the development of their selves. The more people become themselves, the better the democracy. — Paulo Freire

Product development quote Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure ar
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

A fully developed bureaucratic mechanism stands in the same relationship to other forms as does the machine to the non-mechanical production of goods. Precision, speed, clarity, documentary ability, continuity, discretion, unity, rigid subordination, reduction of friction and material and personal expenses are unique to bureaucratic organization. — Max Weber

Our reliance upon knowledge and scientific thinking to achieve total development is the only way to bring our nation ahead to the stage of non-oil production, a lesson learnt from nations with little or no natural resources. — Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan

Digital Chocolate has 60% of its developers in Finland where the sun never sets in the summer and there is nothing to do outside in the winter, so we are very productive! — Trip Hawkins

With the collapse of money, it becomes impossible to trade, produce, or engage in anything other than looking for the essentials of life. As the structures of production and commerce that societies have developed over centuries deteriorate due to the inability of consumers, producers and workers to pay each other, the goods that humans take for granted begin to disappear. — Saifedean Ammous

Absorbing foreign capital and technology and even allowing foreigners to construct plants in China can only play a complementary role to our effort to develop the productive forces in a socialist society. Of course, this will bring some decadent capitalist influences into China. We are aware of this possibility; it's nothing to be afraid of. — Deng Xiaoping

By 'socialism' I mean a classless society in which the State has disappeared, production is cooperative, and no man has political or economic power over another. The touchstone would be the extent to which each individual could develop his own talents and personality. — Dwight Macdonald

You can monetize yourself if and only if you develop a reason to monetize your services and or talents. In other words, you must have a unique proven talent, track record that will make people want to pay for that service or product. — Steven Gundry

The key to getting businesspeople and developers to work well together is for the businesspeople to share problems, not solutions. — Jeff Lawson

Real cultural diversity results from the interchange of ideas, products, and influences, not from the insular development of a single national style. — Tyler Cowen

During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago — Norman Borlaug

World military spending has now risen to over $1.2 trillion. This incredible sum represents 2.5 per cent of GDP (global gross domestic product). Even if 1 per cent of it were redirected towards development, the world would be much closer to achieving the Millennium Development Goals. — Ban Ki-moon

Eighty percent of what everyone's talking about never happens. I don't mean in terms of product development that's happening right now, I'm talking about the far-flung visions of the future. — Jay Chiat

We should support each other in fighting COVID-19 and step-up cooperation in areas such as testing methods, treatment medicine, and the research, development, production, and mutual recognition of vaccines to truly create synergy against COVID-19. — Xi Jinping

China is ready to pursue cooperation of various forms with the U.K. and other countries in international production capacity and equipment manufacturing to synergize our respective strengths and promote each other's development. — Xi Jinping

Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration. — Ray Ozzie

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history. — John Moody

The Communist Party of China should represent the development trends of advanced productive forces, the orientations of an advanced culture and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people of China. — Jiang Zemin

That there is much suffering in the world no one disputes. Which is more likely, that pain and evil are the result of an all-powerful and good God, or the product of uncaring natural forces? The presence of much suffering agrees well with the view that all organic beings have been developed through variation and natural selection. — Charles Darwin

The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a minimal standard of both demographic characteristics and of consumption. — Robert Trout

Invest time in languages and intercultural awareness. Focus on becoming part of global citizenry. In exchange for the opportunity to participate everywhere/anywhere in the world you have the obligation to do something productive, which will improve the world. Develop a personal mission, a desire to leave personal legacy. — C. K. Prahalad

The dangers of eating animal products occur after the age of reproduction. If people developed cardiovascular disease that was fatal by the age of twelve or thirteen, eating animals would have died out long ago. You get it after you've already reproduced. — Neal Barnard

Sport is a product of human culture. America seems to need football at this state of our social development. When you get ninety million people watching a single game on television, it ... shows you that people need something to identify with. — Joe Paterno

The huge arrogance of the companies developing GMO crops and their determination to destroy the line of accountability which links the developer to the product is breath-taking. When something goes wrong, as it inevitably will, there will be a great benefit to those who have taken a stance against genetically modified organisms. — Jonathon Porritt

Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise. But the position is serious when enterprise becomes a bubble on a whirlpool of speculation. When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill done. — John Maynard Keynes

An organised system of machines, to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automation, is the most developed form of production by machinery. — Karl Marx

Inadequate use of usability engineering methods in software development projects have been estimated to cost the US economy about $30 billion per year in lost productivity. — Jakob Nielsen

Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche. — Leigh Steinberg

the idea of a finished human product not only appears presumptuous but even, in my opinion, lacks any strong appeal. Life is struggle and striving, development and growth - and analysis is one of the means that can help in this process. Certainly its positive accomplishments are important, but also the striving itself is of intrinsic value. — Karen Horney

I get my highlights touched up with Susan Henry at Shades in Beverly Hills. She developed hypo-allergenic hair color products with no ammonia because she's allergic to others; she's an incredible colorist. She does balayage instead of the foils, and I'll go and she will do my entire head of highlights in an hour. — Jennifer Morrison

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