Bon Scott Quotes

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

Give the public what it wants.

It's all about producing products people want.

I'm not sure the public knows what it wants.

What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.

I have come East to find what the public likes.

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.

Ultimately, only audiences decide what's a franchise.

When I started off, I didn't only ride to fame on my looks though many people I know think otherwise.

The public made me and then encouraged me for many years, and my future even now depends upon it.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

The audiences in the U.K. like me more than in America.

To be successful you have to convince the public.

My plan cannot fail if the people are with us and we ought not succeed unless we do have the people with us.

We don't think U.S. consumers want less choice.

I think it's a completely good thing to want to do business, to want to make money and be a success in the marketplace, to get the attention of customers. I'm not in the business of pointing fingers or blaming companies, but there is a limit to everything.

If humans want to see the same types of people over and over, that's what industries will give us. If we want to see something different, that's what they'll have to give us.

When something is not liked by people, you cannot make it run, however big actor or producer you may be. The audience has to make it a hit. The power is in the hands of the public.

Most companies that are successful listen to people and see what they want and they make that. So when I used to make songs, I'd make mixtapes. The public would tell me what they like and then I would make songs based on what they like. That's how I knew 'Ridin' Dirty' was going to be big - they told me they liked this kind of music.

There is an excellent correlation between giving society what it wants and making money, and almost no correlation between the desire to make money and how much money one makes.

If you don't provide a product that is satisfying people, no matter what your ideology, they tell you to take a hike.

If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.

The consumers are merciless. They never buy in order to benefit a less efficient producer and to protect him against the consequences of his failure to manage better. They want to be served as well as possible. And the working of the capitalist system forces the entrepreneur to obey the orders issued by the consumers.

You're always as good as your last movie and that's the same with politics. If you are successful with a certain policy, then you're hot; if you're successful with the economy, or bringing down the unemployment rate, then you're hot. But if you're not successful, then things go south very quickly.