James William Middleton Quotes

I discovered I was passionate about the creative process, the product development, creating a concept around a fragrance or lipstick.

There's so much more work that goes into developing a makeup line than one would imagine. Personally, I like to be involved in the entire creative process - everything from art direction, collection concepts, formula testing, packaging artwork, to naming the shades and also the marketing side of things.

If you look at, you know, the limitations of creating new products, you're only limited by the technology that you have to work with.

You start with the right amount of rational and emotional experiences. You have to blend those in your product when you come out.

I'm certainly not into money and prestige. For me there is simply nothing more exciting than people involved in the creation of great products. That is what drives me.

Bell Labs was a fantastic research organization but having them create and market new products for the world was terrible. They were not good marketers and yet it was AT&T engineers who were deciding what the products of the future were.

If I look at my own growth, I started in product design. And we grew and created new products, and we were also able to change the idea of design a few times.

To create something you want to sell, you first study and research the market, then you develop the product to the best of your ability.

As long as you're in the food business, why not make sweets?

Besides hot pockets keeps introducing new products every 10 minutes so I always have new stuff on the topic.

I find cooking very therapeutic. As a creative person, I relish cooking because it's such a creative process. You can cook anything out of anything.

Apple's goal isn't to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to market good products.

Making new products is an easy tap for a company in a recession.

I love taking an idea... to a prototype and then to a product that millions of people use.

The role of the federal government is to make sure enough research dollars flow into … universities to help create the ideas that 10 or 15 years from today will be exciting products.

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.

As a student, I had a hobby of inventing new ideas for products. For me, thinking of new businesses is like inventing new products.

Focus on your product. A lot of people focus on the name of their brand or the legal aspects, but it's more important to create your product. It's why people join. It's your vision. Without your product, nothing is going to happen.

There's a lot of guys who use their likeness - to do movies, and do other business stuff, but not too many guys are actually making product. I'm making product, it's a different thing. A lot of guys are holding up Coke cans and get paid a lot of money to do that, but no one's making a Coke can. I'm the guy that's trying to make the Coke can.

XUV is a living proof of the value of MRV. In that sense, the XUV was a wonderful validation. The XUV grew along with MRV. As the institution was built, the product was created.

We're not trying to be Nike. It's about evolving into new products that are going to make people's lives better.

I think an engineer has not matured until he or she has conceived of a product and participated in every stage of bringing it to fruition, if that makes sense. And not many engineers get to do all of those stages.

The best American manufacturers customize products to meet customer needs, reduce the time required to make them and constantly improve their design.

To me, as A&R people and as managers, we're in the business of finding talent. It's no different than working with these engineers who just want to make good products.

It's all about producing products people want.