Jose Ferreira Quotes

It's all about competitiveness: are you making the products that people really do want and value, and are you making it more efficiently and using less resources and less time than the competition?

In the past, the U.K. got away with selling things that weren't unusual. Now it's no use trying to export without having something that's unusual and better.

The founder of Dell found ways of delivering Hewlett Packard's most profitable products for much lower prices but forgot to deliver their quality so within a few years had fallen behind again. Ideas need constant renewal. A great idea will never be perfect and will never work perfectly in all markets and all seasons.

All great pitches have a few things in common: the founder/team is wicked smart, the idea is big and a breakthrough, and the market is potentially enormous.

... whatever business you're in, it doesn't matter, it's going to commoditize over time, it's going to devalue, you've got to keep moving it to a higher value. Keep going to a higher value in whatever it is that you do and force yourself and force the organization to always do it ahead of time

If you take existing ideas and make them affordable and scalable, you substantially change business models.

New things get noticed. This means you can't be afraid to present something new to your market, even if it's just a variation or an addition to an already-existing product or service.

The only way to generate sustained exponential growth is to make whatever you're making sufficiently good.

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

A sustaining innovation makes better products that you can sell for better profits to your best customers.

He's part of the product and will make no bones about creating that image to bring the value up in his product, bring the value up in everything he touches.

When we look at investing, we always think about 'how defensible is this, how likely is it that somebody is going to copy this.' E-commerce tends to be something easy to copy because it's execution.

Focusing on the long term and building a great product that is scalable ultimately leads to a great company.

Great products sell themselves.

Be careful not to start a company that really belongs as a feature of another company, like the 25 Twitter URL shortener companies out there. Pick a real problem that's here to stay.

Whatever business you're in - it doesn't matter - it's going to commoditize over time. It's going to devalue. You've got to keep moving it to a higher value.

People are going to copy your product if you build great stuff. Just because Yahoo has a search box doesn't make it Google.

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

If you're entering anything where there's an existing marketplace, against large, entrenched competitors, then your product or service needs to be much better than theirs. It can't be a little bit better, because then you put yourself in the shoes of the consumer... you're always going to buy the trusted brand unless there's a big difference.

If you ask me, 'So what is your business model?' Our business model's always about shifting to higher value opportunities.

Our employees and competitors thought we were docile. We want to be defiantly disruptive. I don't mean necessarily by launching price wars but by being the best at the basics - having the best customer service, the best on-time performance, the best coffee - in a thoughtful, not a testosterone-laced, way.

There is a premium on innovation and commercializing new ideas.

We are producing something people can live without. But we need to keep thinking what would make our products a priority purchase even if they are not a necessity. If we stop doing that, no matter how successful Nintendo is at the moment, things will start going wrong in no time.

All wealth comes from adding value, from producing more, better, cheaper, faster, and easier than someone else.

No amount of tools can help a bad product. You have to remain genuine in your product development innovation and quality.