Mary Barra Quotes

There is a wide range of opportunities for us and we see a main part of our strategy as being a company that supplies products across a range of different end applications and indeed we have quite a wide product portfolio which we enhance each year.

One of the big failures for the big auto companies is that even the CEO and the top management often don't understand design and manufacturing. As a CEO, you have to make decisions; you need to have knowledge.

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

Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.

From an operational perspective, exports challenge companies to design, develop, manufacture and supply products to discerning customers in global markets. This, in turn, motivates companies to scale up the value chain, which results in higher realisations.

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

I've been good at product entrepreneuring.

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

The tools used by economists to analyze business firms are too abstract and speculative to offer any guidance to entrepreneurs and managers in their constant struggle to bring novel products to consumers at low cost.

The best American manufacturers customize products to meet customer needs, reduce the time required to make them and constantly improve their design.

Design has always been at the heart of our business.

The way we want to look at it is we would like to do end-to-end design in India. We've invested for many years, and so at some point, to do end-to-end product in India is very much a possibility.

We have built out the diversity of our product teams, and we saw the caliber of our testing and experimentation improve significantly.

We are a very systems- and process- driven business which reports directly to the board, whether it is risk or legal.

I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make things that are going good go better?

At VMware, the engineers worked very closely with our customers, closely with the field, and it was exciting for everyone. So, one of things I did here at Google when I arrived was to combine sales, marketing, engineering, and product.

It's all about producing products people want.

For us as a firm, not only from a risk mitigation standpoint but also as a point of differentiation, it is incredibly important to get consistency and the very best individuals with the capabilities to do the very best job.

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

As businesses grow, all sorts of things that once were done on the fly - including creating new products - have a way of becoming bureaucratized.

There are lots of people at our company who dedicate their time and effort to make sure that the journey from product design to hitting the screen is as seamless as possible.

We need constant change, technological innovation capability, and high productivity to survive in the fierce competitive environment.

If you get the product and technology right, then the rest usually falls into place.

From the early days, Booking.com has been disruptive. Our aim is to create the best product for our customers, and we do that through constant innovation and testing.