Chellie Pingree Quotes

It's easier to build a business around a first-class product, even if it's a more expensive product to produce.

I think any company should compete on the quality of their products, their prices, the novelty they can produce, their services, because that would be fair competition.

If you're entering anything where there's an existing marketplace, against large, entrenched competitors, then your product or service needs to be much better than theirs. It can't be a little bit better, because then you put yourself in the shoes of the consumer... you're always going to buy the trusted brand unless there's a big difference.

I never wanted to compete on price in my history because on price, you don't always win.

Fans will come if you have a good product.

When you improve your product so it does the customer's job better, then you gain market share.

You just have to make sure the model you're working on does not undersell your product.

A sustaining innovation makes better products that you can sell for better profits to your best customers.

I look at companies as price-players or quality-players. The only way to go with J.Crew was quality.

Market in India is big enough for several brands. For us, it's about innovation, making best product, and making the ecosystem better and better. If we do that well, then more people will switch from Android to iOS.

For us, the reason that our quality has been high, and I feel that our pricing has been reasonable, is because we don't wholesale.

We are market based and have to differentiate our product in many ways; pricing isn't the only one.

We are producing something people can live without. But we need to keep thinking what would make our products a priority purchase even if they are not a necessity. If we stop doing that, no matter how successful Nintendo is at the moment, things will start going wrong in no time.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

The PC is successful because we're all benefiting from the competition with each other. If Twitter comes along, our games benefit. If Nvidia makes better graphics technology, all the games are going to shine. If we come out with a better game, people are going to buy more PCs.

I was first in line for the iPhone, but I'm not a fanboy of any company - I'm in favor of anything that's best of breed.

Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.

Social enables word of mouth at an unprecedented scale. Its most powerful effect, through reviews and recommendations, is to put product quality and value for money as the key to success in commerce. Social brings a level of transparency that prevents marketers from advertising their way to success without underlying product quality.

The marketers can compete with free; it just has to be better. Look at bottled water if you don't believe me.

Entrepreneurship is all about an idea that creates differentiated business value to one's customers. You must be able to convince your customers about the benefits that association with you or your products will give them. People are ready to pay if they are convinced about your services or products.

Apple's goal isn't to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to market good products.

Good products win out.

You are as good as your product. When you are used and loved by everyone, your brand equity is high. When you are not, you're not.

I know only a few ways to take market share and drive new revenue. I can engineer better products and services, I can build better relationships with my customers and deliver a higher level of service, or I can give my customers a lower price.

Market share is key.