Erno Rubik Quotes

I love building companies; I love making products.

You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we've come up with doing that is through companies.

We don't really want to work for a corporation; however, we do aspire to one day make a barbecue sauce that doubles as a cologne, and we would like to promote that ourselves. We would like to create a cologne barbecue sauce benchmark of success.

At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.

I decided on a chocolate business. I love the history of chocolate and making it and the fact that people of any gender, age, and race enjoy it. I found a space in Brooklyn that had not been used in 30 years. Then I talked to an investor who wanted more than 50 percent of the business.

I've always been into fashion and thought it would be amazing to have a clothing line. I just never thought I would have a chance to do something like that.

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

Eventually, I want to have my own clothing line.

I told myself the next time I had a good idea, I would bring it to market.

I knew, back when I was starting up, that if I had something that could be developed for the mass market, I could really take it forward.

It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.

One of my earliest ventures was when I was nine years old. I realized there was a shortage of pencils at school, so I started Rent-a-Pencil. But I made a fundamental mistake. Everybody stole my pencils.

As of 2011, it cost about $5,000 to launch a tech startup.

I meet the designers very often, we discuss the products, they show me their ideas, we discuss the ad campaigns and every new invention that we can find for the future.

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

Most of all, I discovered that in order to succeed with a product you must truly get to know your customers and build something for them.

I want to have my own line and collection.

When trying to start a company, your enemy isn't criticism, anger or insults. Your enemy is apathy.

Nobody forces you to work at Wal-Mart. Start your own business! Sell something to Wal-Mart!

We need to reengineer companies to focus on figuring out who the customer is, what's the market and what kind of product you should build.

I almost never invest in ideas or plans, so you'll need to have a company and at least a product, if not customers.

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.

I happen to like selling clothes as much as creating them. It isn't relevant unless it sells.

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

I can't understand the conditions of a corporate product being designed and getting millions. I admire it, it's great, but I don't know how to do that.