Marco Arment Quotes

A successful business must have a sound knowledge of its market and work on how its product or service will be different, stand out and improve people's lives. If you can ensure it responds to a real need in the market place, your business can punch well above its weight.

If what you're doing is valuable for people, they will find a way to pay you to keep doing it.

The business end of business has never interested me.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.

As long as you're a company that makes profits, all's good.

To get people to pay for something that you built, it has to be of service. It has to make somebody's life better.

I don't think too much about how it might exist in the world in a commercial sense - I more just try and focus on making music that I love and trying to put it out into the world.

I'm a businessman. I work for business people. The kind of thing they say is: Now we've sold a lot of records, let's sell some more.

Now, if you want to get rich, you have only to produce a product or service that will give people greater use value than the price you charge for it. How rich you get will be determined by the number of people to whom you can sell the product or service.

There's no question here that every effort is made to earn as much money off tobacco as possible. At the same time, the same people who are doing everything they can to get every penny out of this product, are condemning its use, are bludgeoning and impugning its users, and denying them every day more and more places where they can legally use the product. In the process, they have been the architects of the black market. The people in charge of all this have themselves set the stage for black market circumstances to prosper and thrive.

There should be a revenue stream that helps pay for the publication or for the work and helps pay the people who do it.

When I say 'serve you better,' I mean 'increase our profits.' We newspapers are very big on profits these days.

Marketing, and the whole firm, should devote extraordinary endeavour towards delighting, keeping for ever and expanding the sales to the 20 per cent of customers who provide 80 per cent.

So my resolution this year is: I'm not a money guy, but I want to make our next product a commercial success, so that people will say, 'Hey, there's a huge market out there. If you make a high-quality games that can touch people, it's going to do great business.

Sales Cure All. Know how your company will make money and how you will actually make sales.

Even the most careful and expensive marketing plans cannot sell people a book they don't want to read.

Money is a function of value creation. The more value you create for other people, the higher the sales of your organization.

Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one’s anus to one’s mouth.

I am just a businessman, giving the people what they want.

Why do some people act as if making money offended their delicate minds? I am out for a legitimate profit, and not ashamed of it; the fact that people will pay money for my goods and services shows that my work is useful.

Net neutrality is rooted in a number of leftist assumptions, and that is that all corporation is evil, that all profit is evil, and that all people in corporations are not people, because corporations aren't people. A gigantic rip-off. Then you couple their own economic circumstances into this and the way they've been raised, thinking if they want it, they should have it, then you get this so-called informed media and opinion about all this stuff.

Art is only worth what people will pay for it. Artists do not get paid by the hour.

The single most important thing is to make people happy. If you are making people happy, as a side effect, they will be happy to open up their wallets and pay you.

For people whose job it is to make sure we make money, there's a lot of pressure.