Sergio Marchionne Quotes

There had to be a market in order for you to be successful in a business. The market had to need your business, or the product of it.

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

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.

My dad built his business by providing products he figured the customers would want.

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.

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's still a bottom-line business. You can be out of control, and if they want you, they'll pick you. And you can be a mensch, and if you're not the product they want, you won't get it.

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

The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.

Television networks are a lot like automobile manufacturers or anyone else who's in commerce. If something out there catches on with the public... I guess you can call it 'market research.'

Certainly, the human race can be fickle, and times do change, but overall, the barriers to bringing a product to market - and understanding what 'the market' wants - have remained unchanged.

Salads was a big indicator of that - there was a huge market out there for it. And why not tap it? Some of the things we are doing now around the globe are responding to customers. It's not because some guy sued you.

It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.

It's whatever sells; it's the business of it.

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.

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

Fans will come if you have a good product.

I like the work. If I upped the price, I wouldn't get the work.

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.

You see I don't like to be really too commercial about things but in this business you've just got to be commercial otherwise the films don't make money and you don't make films and as a long as a commodity is selling it's silly to kill it dead.

There is a healthy competition as there would be in any business. But we do not spend our days thinking about what Marvel is doing.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

I don't have the luxury of making clothes just to make an effect. It can't be something totally frivolous, because my distributors have to have a successful season, too.

Focusing on the long term and building a great product that is scalable ultimately leads to a great company.