Jessica Livingston Quotes

One thing I tell startups all the time is that the best way to grow is to make their product better.

We got to this point by constantly perfecting our products.

My sweet spot is figuring out how to make a product that people love and how to refine it to make them love it more. All the rest is business noise.

Fixing mistakes is one thing. Apple's bigger strength has been its ability to keep improving hit products.

Not only because the product wasn't a great product, but remember it took us five or six years to ship it. Then we had to sort of fix it. That was what I might call Windows 7.

Together, we created the STACKED brand and have really taken the product up two or three notches.

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

I think whenever you have a product you are always trying to improve it. Whether it is a commercial project out on the market or it's a creative collaboration, you are always looking to keep you audiences more engaged.

I love getting consumer reports. I think it's one of my favourite things, studying what people have to say about the product and then trying to make it better.

Some people are serial entrepreneurs and want to just move on to the next thing. They just want to clean the slate and start from scratch. I feel that sometimes, too, and the way that we do that here is we build things inside Shutterstock: we launch new products all the time.

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

The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld.

I knew that if I could create a quality product and find the proper retail outlets, it would be a great company.

You don't always have to start over to create an emotional reaction to your product. It's always powerful to deliver a breakthrough, but there's also a true art to making something great even better.

Innovation usually arises from somebody taking a product already in production and making it better: better glass, better aluminum, a better chip. Innovation always starts with a product.

Once your product is working, switch from not caring about this to caring about this a little bit.

I think there are lots of opportunities to improve the product. When you read the press, people say, "Oh, the product needs improvement." I look at that and say, "Hey, that's an exciting thing to get behind!" Because they can improve that product. That leaves more upside from an innovation and revenue potential than you're gonna find in a lot of places. So you could say that's a downside, I see that as an opportunity.

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

Don’t be in a rush to get big. Be in a rush to have a great product.

We win because we hire the smartest people. We improve our products based on feedback, until they're the best. We have retreats each year where we think about where the world is heading.

You can market your ass off, but if your product sucks, you're dead.

Our policy is to reduce the price, extend the operations, and improve the article.

The only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.

I just want to build great products.

It doesn't matter what product or service you're offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.