Millard Drexler Quotes

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

When you're a young talent, and you want to launch your brand, you always have tons of questions: Where should I produce? Should I launch a second line? Should I do shoes, accessories? If you have someone who can coach you and give you advice and help you find the right supplier, it's a big help.

It's much harder these days as a start-up to do physical devices.

I just want to make things that people want to buy. I have no confusion about this.

I knew that if I could create a quality product and find the proper retail outlets, it would be a great company.

It's all about producing products people want.

The way we want to look at it is we would like to do end-to-end design in India. We've invested for many years, and so at some point, to do end-to-end product in India is very much a possibility.

As a producer or even as a basic seller, you need to be confident about your product.

A lot of times, I can put a product together with a distributor when I go into my Rolodex for distributors. I can then put it together with a face, such as an artist. And then I can go into my databank of retailers and people that I've been working with through the years of retail, and then also manufacturing.

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.

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.

Consumer electronics is a challenging one.

There is a wide range of opportunities for us and we see a main part of our strategy as being a company that supplies products across a range of different end applications and indeed we have quite a wide product portfolio which we enhance each year.

My sweet spot is figuring out how to make a product that people love and how to refine it to make them love it more. All the rest is business noise.

There's a strength to being able to look at products through a customer's eyes, but it is also dangerous.

I want to explore the existing manufacturing abilities of Indian companies and create products together.

Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply.

Every entrepreneur needs ideas, vision, and creativity - no matter what the product or service. Not only that, but the product should truly delight customers and become an essential part of their lives.

I had to learn everything about manufacturing, patents and how to run a business, and eventually I came up with an prototype that worked.

I want to have my own line and collection.

When you look at this and where it's all going, the hardware business requires a lot of investment. It's very hard, it's very expensive, and ramping up hard on any given platform, whether it's a console or any kind of PC or mobile device, going into the hardware business requires a lot of investment.

If your plan is to put a product out there that people can see and understand, then by golly, we're going to get along just fine.

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

When we have a corporation, we must know what the customer wants, what the customers needs. Also, the politician must know what the people want, what the people need.

All business is basically about customers and marketing and making money and capitalism and winning and promoting it and having something someone really wants.