Frank Gehry Quotes

I realized very quickly that the public has a perfect right to tell you what they want to see.

The fact that industries wax and wane is a reality of any economic system that wants to remain dynamic and responsive to people's changing tastes.

We're not in the business of shaping consumer demand. We respond to it.

It's all about producing products people want.

When controversy calls, corporations can be far more responsive than politicians. The market votes every day, after all.

Industry prospers when it offers people articles which they want more than they want anything they now have. The fact is that people never buy what they need. They buy what they want.

Profit is a reward for satisfying the desire of someone else.

There would not be any profits but for the eagerness of the public to acquire the merchandise offered for sale by the successful entrepreneur. But the same people who scramble for these articles vilify the businessman and call his profit ill-got.

The idea that comics stores, distributors and publishers simply 'give the customers what they want' is nonsense. What the customers wanted they didn't get - and they left.

If stores and vendors know there is a demand for organic products, they will make them. The more they make, the more the cost comes down.

The diversification of the people's demand could not be followed by the state apparatus.

When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.

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.'

It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive.

When we have a corporation, we must know what the customer wants, what the customers needs. Also, the politician must know what the people want, what the people need.

Give the public what it wants.

The free market economy provides an unparalleled example of a continuing healthy circulation of elites. In this dynamic economy, failure to keep up with competitors, failure to satisfy the demands of consumers in the best possible way, will topple elites quickly and establish new ones who do the job better.

The difficulty lies, not in finding a producer, but in finding a consumer.

I think competition is good. It finally delivers the best value to the customer, and I think it keeps all the players on their toes.

Last-mile efficiencies is a big trend. It's something that consumers have demonstrated that they want and existing businesses are trying to figure out and new businesses are rising up to.

The novelty business is astounding. We can't keep up with it.

You have to follow the consumer, and the consumer will be in control.

When you have more competition, you have better products and lower prices.

If you give people something they want, they'll come and see it.

The reality of life is, if you have a bagel shop and everybody is pouring into the doughnut shop across the street, if you want to stay in business, you start selling doughnuts.