Grenville Kleiser Quotes

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.

You pick what your customers want, not what your entrenched business model may require you to do.

My dad built his business by providing products he figured the customers would want.

Businessmen must move with the times...the correlation between knowledge and business as the key to success is closer than ever.

To succeed in business you need to be original, but you also need to understand what your customers want.

I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.

Salads was a big indicator of that - there was a huge market out there for it. And why not tap it? Some of the things we are doing now around the globe are responding to customers. It's not because some guy sued you.

There's always something happening in the world that creates an opportunity to try to fix a business and build a business.

My desire to participate in the business is not to make more crap.

The thing about startups is you can make it, and if it's wrong you can remake it, and you can build a team that you want to have, a product that you want to have. You're utterly focused on your users or your customers and their needs, and trying to figure out how to meet those needs.

The purpose of a business is to create customers.

I have started many companies now worth more than $100 million. So I know a little about business.

If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.

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

When you open any kind of food service establishment, you do all this planning, but it's not until you've opened the door and people are inside that you learn what people want you to be to them.

Certainly in business terms, considering how thriving the market is. Understanding what people want is essential. We have a team on the ground whose job it is to keep tabs on what's good, whether it's a tapas bar in Barcelona, or an amazing fish and chip shop in Yorkshire.

Market leaders inevitably slip into decline when they tell the people what they want instead of giving the people what they want.

A successful business must have a sound knowledge of its market and work on how its product or service will be different, stand out and improve people's lives. If you can ensure it responds to a real need in the market place, your business can punch well above its weight.

You need to spend all of your time and energy on creating something that actually brings value to the people you're asking for money!

Starting your own business and thinking about how you can grow something and fulfill both expectations and needs of your retailers and still stay exciting for the runway, you sort of become this left brain-right brain person pretty quickly.

With a wonderful business, you can figure out what will happen; you can't figure out when it will happen. You don't want to focus on when, you want to focus on what. If you're right about what, you don't have to worry about when

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.

It had always made sense to me to build a business based on what people really wanted, rather than guess what we thought they might want.

Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation.

An open-minded person running a business might catch a problem faster than a closed-minded person. And when they identify a problem, they can fix it much faster.