Daymond John Quotes

I have shifted my mindset in terms of how companies should... focus on building amazing products. If you have amazing products, the marketing of those products is trivial.

I don't think there is any franchise more powerful than ours around securing the consumer experience and we will not concede that to anyone including Microsoft.

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

Good products win out.

Don't ever, ever devalue your product. Ever. It's the worst thing anyone can do to hurt your brand.

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

Any products associated with a Apple are going to win. The people who make the Apple products are going to win.

I never think in terms of how we can compete against the other companies; rather, our primary focus is to make consumers feel the uniqueness and attractiveness of our products.

That's what makes great products. It's not process-it's content.

I just want to build great products.

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

Fans will come if you have a good product.

People buy products if they're better.

When you improve your product so it does the customer's job better, then you gain market share.

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

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

Social enables word of mouth at an unprecedented scale. Its most powerful effect, through reviews and recommendations, is to put product quality and value for money as the key to success in commerce. Social brings a level of transparency that prevents marketers from advertising their way to success without underlying product quality.

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.

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

Am I an Apple bigot? No. I can critique their products and their customer service philosophy. But overall, they do better than any other player.

My desire to participate in the business is not to make more crap.

What you can do is ask: 'What is the value to the customer? What are they willing to pay for?' Then, deliver great products and services.

People's interest is in the product, not in its authorship.

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.

Every time a consumer walks into a retail store, experiences the Nokia experience for the first time and purchases that product. Those are the moments where you say, 'We've hit it. We've nailed it.'