Forrest Mars Jr. Quotes

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

I enjoy building something good and having a successful product and making money.

Fans will come if you have a good product.

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.

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

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.

The only way to generate sustained exponential growth is to make whatever you're making sufficiently good.

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

You just have to make sure the model you're working on does not undersell your product.

What you find is, you have to deliver a product that has value to the customer. When you do, and I think the wind community is getting much closer to that, customers will want it.

When you create something that is popular, when you create a solution, you're an innovator, and you solve problems for people and they like what you have to offer, of course you automatically make money.

The problem with entrepreneurship is we are often working really hard producing high quality products that no-one wants. The creation of stuff is not valued.

Every startup should address a real and demonstrated need in the world - if you build a solution to a problem lots of people have, it's so easy to sell your product to the world.

You can monetize yourself if and only if you develop a reason to monetize your services and or talents. In other words, you must have a unique proven talent, track record that will make people want to pay for that service or product.

The purpose of business is to make a reasonable return by making products and services that people want and value. If you are not, you are wasting resources.

No amount of tools can help a bad product. You have to remain genuine in your product development innovation and quality.

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

If you have a great idea that can translate elsewhere, then that's where the scalability comes in - and that's where you can actually start to make real money.

Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed.

If I make a good product and deliver value to users and to the world, the financial gains will come.

Look at what caused people to make a lot of money and you will see that usually it is in proportion to their production of what the society wanted.

Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2,000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1,000, and sell a thousand of them.

I want to create something like Sony. Not in terms of manufacturing products but creating something that is innovative, makes money, improves peoples' lives.