Matt Haig Quotes

When I first started at HSN, I knew that retailers would have to be poised to take advantage of technology and the rapidly changing ways in which people shop. It was one of the things that drew me to the company.

It is the new and different that is always most vulnerable to market research.

Doing business is all about providing a good product or service to your customers. A good businessman is he who knows that what is successful today may not be so tomorrow. Technology changes so fast, and so do people's needs and wants. That's why it would do well for a businessman to know how to adapt to change. He must constantly reinvent the business, or it won't last.

What's encouraging is that the early new platforms - Kindle and iPad - are clearly leading to people buying more books. The data is in on that.

But the real focus should be on people who are buying today because the base is so big it will take a long time for any change materialize on an overall basis.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

I've made my best personal investments when I've been a user of the product. Like Apple. The epiphany for me came when I purchased my fifth iPod and I hadn't unwrapped my fourth. It was still in the plastic case.

Whenever teenage girls and corporate CEOs covet the same new technology, something extraordinary is happening.

I love technology, and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.

People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.

The IT industry is driven by consumer demand.

We are witnessing a seismic change in consumer behavior. That change is being brought about by technology and the access people have to information.

I think we all realize the consumer has taken control, and they're not giving it back. So as every new technology comes forward, we have to figure out how to integrate it.

In my opinion, right now there's way too much hype on the technologies and not enough attention to the real businesses behind them.

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

The course of business shapes public opinion.

The habits of the American consumer are changing; that's a reality.

Not every Apple product makes a big enough difference to me to get instantly, although many do.

A society without civil, political, and property rights may indeed find it difficult to innovate innovation outside the military sector, but it often has a relatively easy time adopting technologies that have already been developed elsewhere.

Nobody knew they needed a smart phone, an automobile, or even a cheeseburger from a drive through window.

Consumer preferences for food have changed... Changed radically. I call them seismic shifts.

Almost every move in the market is either a move to align with where Cisco is going or to align to compete against us or to utilize that technology.

I've had the iPad for a nice little minute, not into gadgets like that, though.

Sneakers have become a significant category for us and a very tangible reminder that what our customers want and wear is changing.

If you're holding your iPhone, and it's the newest iteration of it, you're like, 'Oh, famous people have my phone. Captains of industry have my phone.' And that can be an intoxicating experience for someone who is going off to college for the first time.