Janet Yellen Quotes

Nothing exists if a store doesn't buy it and you're not able to get it.

It had always made sense to me to build a business based on what people really wanted, rather than guess what we thought they might want.

It's whatever sells; it's the business of it.

It was Dell who came out with their build-on-demand process, where they are able to keep a zero balance inventory. That means they don't purchase parts until an order is received. That is a way to greatly reduced overhead, since you don't need to warehouse parts or overstock parts you may not end up using.

Part of the film business is, if you want an apple, you buy an apple.

And it has to do with having no inventory or stockpiles on the shelf, but items arrive as you need to build your product. What that means is that it's much more difficult to actually find stockpiles of already built weapons.

It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with it too much.

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

Without a consumer society there was no need for an industrial revolution.

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

Capitalism is not simply mass production, but mass production to satisfy the needs of the masses.

There's only so much stuff you can buy. I have to retail the stuff. Stuff that's really really weird - it's cool, but who are you going to sell it to? I do collect some stuff. In the end, I have to run a business.

I am just a businessman, giving the people what they want.

If no one consumes these products, people will stop roducing them. They will not build it if you didn't come.

It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers,the people, the common man,prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to serious books, and that governments prefer guns to butter. The entrepreneur does not make greater profits in selling bad things than in selling good things. His profits are the greater the better he succeeds in providing the consumers with those things they ask for most intensely.

We do not manufacture wants for goods we do not produce.

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

There are two kinds of people... There are the dreamers who go and buy, and there are the doers who go and make. And I've always recognized that. So the dreamers are what support our company because they will buy the product that they could make if they wanted to, had time to, or were so inclined to.

It's still a bottom-line business. You can be out of control, and if they want you, they'll pick you. And you can be a mensch, and if you're not the product they want, you won't get it.

There just doesn't seem to be a market for something with aspiration anymore.

I think there is a niche for every market.

Retailing, it's always true that there is some items that I wish we had a lot more of like the iPod and there is some items I wish we had a lot less of.

In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably good outsourced manufacturing from companies like Foxconn. We don't have that in the rocket business. There's no Foxconn in the rocket business.

There is no way for the American economic system to function without advertising. There is no other way to communicate enough information about enough products to enough people with enough speed.

If you use your old business models to restrict people, they're going to find ways to get that content the way they want it.