James Jebbia Quotes

A company's best advantage should be a quality product offered at the right price. That fair competition is what drives innovation.

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

Brands will increasingly handle their own e-commerce and rely less and less on local distribution partners. Why should they give away their profit margins?

We want the best prices we can give our customers, with all our products... But it really is about the quality first and the experience.

In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.

Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.

If your goal is to provide a service at terms your customers can afford, you have to figure out how to offer your services at price points such that your aggregated costs are lower than your aggregated revenues.

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 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.

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

Our long-standing philosophy that our diverse suppliers must provide high-quality goods and services at competitive prices adds great value to our business.

He [Steve Jobs] had come from the surplus electronics parts world.So he came from that world, and he said let's sell PC boards for $40. We'll build them for $20 and sell them for $40.

Customers want high quality at low prices and they want it now.

Only a few businesses will succeed by having the lowest price, so most will need a strategy that includes customer services.

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

At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.

Our development strategy is based on a deep understanding of our customers. They want high-quality products and good service.

If you're not worried that you're pricing it too cheap, you're not pricing it cheap enough.

The purpose of a business is to create customers.

Good products win out.

Hardware ultimately is a scale game, and it's a differentiation game. If you are literally selling products that are completely undifferentiated, like x86 servers, why would anybody pay you for that?

I basically try to give people top quality.

We are going to continue to run a business, and we are going to continue to meet the supply and demand that's out there.

You have to do things right to stay in business, and that's not easy, and that's a choice on a daily basis, the choices you make in how to run your business and how to have a point of differentiation and how to be true to your brand, how to offer something that people want and to offer something that you love.