Bill James Quotes

We don't think U.S. consumers want less choice.

I think every market has lot of things in common, and at the same time, every market has lot of different things.

When companies try to guess what consumers want, they essentially make the choice for consumers.

I think there is a niche for every market.

But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.

If people don't want it, they won't have it.

He who puts ... a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest.

The consumers are merciless. They never buy in order to benefit a less efficient producer and to protect him against the consequences of his failure to manage better. They want to be served as well as possible. And the working of the capitalist system forces the entrepreneur to obey the orders issued by the consumers.

Just because I am increasingly bored by sabermetric arcana doesn't mean anyone else has to be; it remains good for people who like that sort of thing.

The industry cannot long offer unneeded or overpriced insurance if people will not buy it.

The public needs the equivalent of Chevrolets as well as Cadillacs.

Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that.

For some reason, everyone says "fashion is responsible for skinny models." I don't believe that myself. I believe consumers dictate commercial success and trends in a capitalistic society. So I believe if consumers wanted to see - like, who decided that Barney the Dinosaur was going to be a million-dollar industry?

It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers,the people, the common man,prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to serious books, and that governments prefer guns to butter. The entrepreneur does not make greater profits in selling bad things than in selling good things. His profits are the greater the better he succeeds in providing the consumers with those things they ask for most intensely.

I'm grateful for the fact that I can choose from multiple genres and characters.

In a world of niches, we are enchained by our own consumer preferences.

Too many bar owners built a bar for themselves... when they should have built what their market and demographic demands!

If humans want to see the same types of people over and over, that's what industries will give us. If we want to see something different, that's what they'll have to give us.

I like certain things, I don't like others, and I like what NBC has to offer. I can do sports and I can do entertainment, and whatever they offer I'm going to try at least once to figure out what I love and what I don't.

Not every brand is for everybody.

The novelty business is astounding. We can't keep up with it.

When similar products are on store shelves, price competition is inevitable. Nintendo has been trying to steer clear of that direction and create a market of our own.

We're conditioned to let businesses fail, regardless of how much we like them. We believe that if the market doesn't want that bookstore to exist, then it shouldn't exist.

I have worked for Tesco and am grateful to them but in principle I believe in individual shops.

When you have more competition, you have better products and lower prices.