Lisa Su Quotes

Great companies are built on great products.

Once you start thinking more about where you want to be than about making the best product, you're screwed.

I have shifted my mindset in terms of how companies should... focus on building amazing products. If you have amazing products, the marketing of those products is trivial.

We're not really in the business to sell ourselves. We want to sell what we work on.

I just want to build great products.

Every time we bring someone in we ensure that they are a strategic thinker, but even more important that they understand that if the products aren't successful and the products don't sell that there won't be anything to strategize about.

People think about their business instead of their products.

If you get the product and technology right, then the rest usually falls into place.

Revenue is not where the focus of the company is at. We are focused on pushing out cool products like our analytics.

That's what makes great products. It's not process-it's content.

I can't force the direction that it's going to go without actually taking the time to make sure it's a great, great quality product. Whether that's for apparel, or whatever the case may be.

If we're building high quality companies, if the customers like the products, if the technology innovation is real, then the substance is going to win out in the end.

I get a lot of criticism for telling founders to focus first on making something great, instead of worrying about how to make money. And yet that is exactly what Google did. And Apple, for that matter. You'd think examples like that would be enough to convince people.

You need to focus on creating the actual value of the company, not just the theoretical value. The actual value comes from a great product that sells well and is ultimately profitable.

Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the financial side, if you're really listening and reacting to the best ideas of the people we have.

Unlike Marvel, we are not setting up redundant organizations for expertise that exists. We will track all DC properties to measure financial success.

Fans will come if you have a good product.

We are really very lucky to have so many fantastic brands. But to grow them we should not be too much in a hurry. They are growing fast, but they have to grow accordingly to the market and to the capacity we have to deliver good products.

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

Over time, the product we produce has been consistently successful here in America and around the world. Apparently, we are doing something right.

The growth of a company like ours tends to be a relatively steady because, like some of the other successful mixed signal companies, we have a wide range of products servicing a wide range of end applications.

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.

If you want to create a great product, just focus on one person. Make that one person have the most amazing experience ever.

There is a clear goal and it isn't to make money. The goal is to desperately try to make the best products we can. We are not naive - if you trust it, people like it, they buy it and we make money. This is a consequence.

Great products sell themselves.