Trip Adler Quotes

Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.

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

Over time, the product we produce has been consistently successful here in America and around the world. Apparently, we are doing something right.

There is a clear goal and it isn't to make money. The goal is to desperately try to make the best products we can. We are not naive - if you trust it, people like it, they buy it and we make money. This is a consequence.

Well, the sales of our products clearly demonstrate their value to businesses and to individuals.

Great companies are built on great products.

Fans will come if you have a good product.

In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.

Google has a great product. They've built a great business.

That's the ultimate gratification in any business situation - do customers buy the product? And do they use it and do they come back and buy more of it?

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

Good products win out.

To me, a great company starts with a great product and ends with a great product.

To WWE and to everyone who owns WWE, it's a business, and if you become something to the people, you're going to become something to the company. It's just that simple now.

We are really pleased with our revenues but our goal isn't to make money. It sounds a little flippant, but it's the truth. Our goal and what makes us excited is to make great products. If we are successful people will like them and if we are operationally competent, we will make money.

My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.

I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.

Our goal is to desperately make the best products we can. We're not naive. We trust that if we're successful and we make good products, that people will like them. And we trust that if people like them, they'll buy them. And we figured out the operation and we're effective. We know what we're doing, so we'll make money, but it's a consequence.

We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.'

We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.

If someone doesn't believe enough in your product to put money in to it, then you should rethink how good the product is.

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

We are really very lucky to have so many fantastic brands. But to grow them we should not be too much in a hurry. They are growing fast, but they have to grow accordingly to the market and to the capacity we have to deliver good products.

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

You can't just tell your team, 'Think long term.' It doesn't work that way. When you are starting out, you have to always think about trying to build something of value for the customer: something they can use all the time, something of use.