Kevin Systrom Quotes

Good products win out.

No amount of tools can help a bad product. You have to remain genuine in your product development innovation and quality.

We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.'

Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.

It's easier to build a business around a first-class product, even if it's a more expensive product to produce.

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

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

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.

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

We are producing something people can live without. But we need to keep thinking what would make our products a priority purchase even if they are not a necessity. If we stop doing that, no matter how successful Nintendo is at the moment, things will start going wrong in no time.

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

Great companies are built on great products.

Fans will come if you have a good product.

We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets.

When you improve your product so it does the customer's job better, then you gain market share.

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

What you can do is ask: 'What is the value to the customer? What are they willing to pay for?' Then, deliver great products and services.

We are reinventing ourselves as a company. Compaq is taking ownership of its customer relationships and accountability of our customer's needs.

What creates success on HSN is great product, a great story and a great storyteller.

If you develop a product that gets what the customer is trying to get done, you don't have to advertise; people will just pull it into their lives.

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.

You are as good as your product. When you are used and loved by everyone, your brand equity is high. When you are not, you're not.

You have to have what your customers need because if you don't have what your customers need, you're not going to have customers.

It's all about competitiveness: are you making the products that people really do want and value, and are you making it more efficiently and using less resources and less time than the competition?

To me, all business is the same it's just the product that's different and you can have a diamond in your hand, but if you don't market it correctly, it just becomes another piece of coal.