The role of business is to provide products and services that make people's lives better - while using fewer resources - and to act lawfully and with integrity.
People are in such a hurry to launch their product or business that they seldom look at marketing from a bird's eye view and they don't create a systematic plan.
That's the ultimate gratification in any business situation - do customers buy the product? And do they use it and do they come back and buy more of it?
Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable.
They will therefore not be in a hurry to risk their entire business by expanding too rapidly, but they are the major indicator of whether the manufacturing industry accepts there is a sustainable business in RFID production.
Soil is a living ecosystem, and is a farmer's most precious asset. A farmer's productive capacity is directly related to the health of his or her soil.
For the longest time, chefs and restaurateurs were able to get products home cooks couldn't get, but that's not the case anymore.
I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.
The principal and only way to make an heirloom product is to design something that people will need not just this year, but for the next 50 or 100 years.
Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in turn rely on the education of our people.
What you can do is ask: 'What is the value to the customer? What are they willing to pay for?' Then, deliver great products and services.
Apple does great products, but at the end of the day we think consumers want choice, consumers want openness.
Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.
Any good production team is going to allow an actor to breathe life into the characters - that's why they hired that woman, that man, whatever the case.
The good thing about TV is that you can still watch the product, even if you're not in charge of it anymore.
One incredible tool to accomplish bringing a product to the public is to put a face on TV shows, movies, and the actors in them by using good PR.
Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
Lack of sleep makes me less productive. I need a good seven or eight hours a night.
I will continue to advocate for a strong federal government role to establish the production, storage and distribution networks needed to support a hydrogen economy.
My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.
We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.
