Elle Macpherson Quotes

If you haven't created the time as an owner to understand why people are choosing your model over your competition, then you are only managing the business that comes in the door, not actively seeking it out.

Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures - they're lying if they say they haven't. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind - the product wasn't distinct enough from Coca-Cola.

I think the only way to maintain profitability is to meet the needs of the customers.

Any brand in the world wants to make desirable product. But we don't shove it down people's throats.

You can't think of a franchise from day one. It starts with the audience accepting the idea.

It was our belief we should have a customer base and that the catwalk was actually supporting and increasing the business.

I spent the bulk of my career on building my company, and Morningstar is where the passion is.

The most interesting information I can have about a competitor is the cost.

We are reinventing ourselves as a company. Compaq is taking ownership of its customer relationships and accountability of our customer's needs.

Great products sell themselves.

Chick-fil-A is what it is today because of its people, purpose and product.

When you focus on the consumer, the consumer responds.

Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you don't know what you're selling, and it's probably not going to be a good experience.

I will continue to focus on global strategy and to do everything I can to help Yahoo! realize its full potential and enhance its leading culture of technology and product excellence and innovation.

Marketing is for companies who have sucky products.

A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.

If you really stay focused on what your beliefs are and what your customer wants, you'll find the right markets.

I was the first advertising person who people could identify with.

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.

Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.

You have to do things right to stay in business, and that's not easy, and that's a choice on a daily basis, the choices you make in how to run your business and how to have a point of differentiation and how to be true to your brand, how to offer something that people want and to offer something that you love.

Our focus is to see that we are growing faster than the industry and, whichever product we launch, we do better than competition. We try and manage our operations better than competition. Essentially, we try to be better than what we were the previous year.

We have to focus on what we can do. It has to be about experience; it has to be about unique product. It has to be about delivering our content as broadly as we can, and that's been a huge effort on our part.

There had to be a market in order for you to be successful in a business. The market had to need your business, or the product of it.

Growing your own business is great. Watching your ideas come to life, taking care of new customers and watching them become repeat customers, and successfully building your team is a feeling that can't be matched.