Fred Wilson Quotes

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.

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.

Apple's goal isn't to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to market good products.

Don't worry about the financials. Just focus on delivering great products.

If you want to create a great product, just focus on one person. Make that one person have the most amazing experience ever.

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.

Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply.

If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.

Every time we bring someone in we ensure that they are a strategic thinker, but even more important that they understand that if the products aren't successful and the products don't sell that there won't be anything to strategize about.

If you make a really good product that people want and are willing to pay for, money will come.

I try as much as possible to give you a great basic product and what comes out, I feel, is really amazing.

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

As a general rule, if you have a product that doesn't get the job done that a customer is needing to get done, then often you have to offer it for zero. Because if you ask for money for it - because if it doesn't do the job well, they won't pay for it.

I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.

The reality is the Lean Startup method is not about cost, it is about speed. Lean startups waste less money, because they use a disciplined approach to testing new products and ideas.

Customers are a great way to finance a business for many reasons. First, customer financing is typically non dilutive. They want something from you other than equity in your business. Customers also help you fit your product to the market. And customers will help debug and improve the quality of the product.

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

My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.

Your Dream, Vision, Purpose, and Mission all come together when you bring products to market - so make sure you're bringing your best.

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.

You have to have honesty to the product. You have to meet consumer expectations. You give them value for their money and give them a product that they need. I don't see anything wrong with all these things. And I don't think it's a bad thing to meet consumers' expectations.

A big part of my job is to accelerate our ability to bring innovative products to our customers more quickly.

All you can worry about as CEO is making sure your company continues to build great products, deliver the revenue, and keep your customers happy.

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

I used to think that deadlines should be ignored until the product was ready: that they were a nuisance, a hurdle in front of quality, a forced measure to get something out the door for the good of the schedule, not the customer.