Joko Widodo Quotes

Every entrepreneur needs ideas, vision, and creativity - no matter what the product or service. Not only that, but the product should truly delight customers and become an essential part of their lives.

Your goal as an entrepreneur is to understand not only what your business does but the clients that it serves. If you really have your pulse on their needs and wants, then your 'absolute' failures are always going to have limits.

It's all about producing products people want.

When you understand your customer base, you have to provide them with what they want.

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.

For businesses to be successful, they need to constantly ask the question: 'How can we provide value to our customers?' At the end of the day, that is what matters.

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.

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

Television networks are a lot like automobile manufacturers or anyone else who's in commerce. If something out there catches on with the public... I guess you can call it 'market research.'

But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.

I just want to make things that people want to buy. I have no confusion about this.

I realized very quickly that the public has a perfect right to tell you what they want to see.

In our product development cycle, we ask and listen to our customer about what she wants.

I think the only way to maintain profitability is to meet the needs of the customers.

Too many bar owners built a bar for themselves... when they should have built what their market and demographic demands!

You pick what your customers want, not what your entrenched business model may require you to do.

Business is all about the customer: what the customer wants and what they get. Generally, every customer wants a product or service that solves their problem, worth their money, and is delivered with amazing customer service.

My dad built his business by providing products he figured the customers would want.

Face-to-face customer feedback refines or validates every component of the startup's business model, not just the product itself.

Always listen to your customers.

The secret of successful retailing is to give your customers what they want

Certainly in business terms, considering how thriving the market is. Understanding what people want is essential. We have a team on the ground whose job it is to keep tabs on what's good, whether it's a tapas bar in Barcelona, or an amazing fish and chip shop in Yorkshire.

A. T. Stewart started life with a dollar and fifty cents. This merchant prince began by calling at the doors of houses in order to sell needles, thread and buttons. He soon found the people did not want them, and his small stock was thrown back on his hands. Then he said wisely, "I'll not buy any more of these goods, but I'll go and ask people what they do want." Thereafter he studied the needs and desires of people, found out just what they most wanted, endeavored to meet those wants, and became the greatest business man of his time.

Market leaders inevitably slip into decline when they tell the people what they want instead of giving the people what they want.