Focus group research has created a composite No-Man who resembles no-one anyone has ever met. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Focus groups are a waste of time, filled with people telling you what you want to hear so they can go home. — Sergio Zyman Copy Share Image
In the old world, people used to have to go to focus groups and ask people what they thought. Now, people are… — Susan Wojcicki Copy Share Image
“Adam Gottbetter goes beyond the original usage of focus groups when they are used within communication studies to explore the effects of… — Adam Gottbetter Copy Share Image
Because of the spin-meisters and the focus groups and the way politics is run now. It's run by polls and focus groups.… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
Half the stuff I have done which has been successful would never have been made if it had been shown to focus… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
While the other parties look at polls and focus groups to decide what they stand for, and pander to every special interest… — Maxime Bernier Copy Share Image
I don't hide my emotions from people. I am not a focus-group tested, blow-dried candidate or governor. — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
The growing influence of focus groups means we are all in danger of being excessively cowed by their feedback. — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
Don't underestimate the value people place on authenticity. Politicians listen to the focus groups and say the things they think people want… — Rochelle B Lazarus Copy Share Image
This deep insecurity has been going on for a while. I mean I picked it up in 2014 sitting in focus groups… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
When we started NFL Films, there were no focus groups, there were no demographic studies, there were no surveys. Every decision that… — Steve Sabol Copy Share Image
What you hear in focus groups and conversations, people will give you 20 minutes of rage about how the borders are out… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“We’re not big fans of focus groups. We don’t much care for traditional market research either. We go to the source. Not… — Thomas Kelley Copy Share Image
This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups.… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
...The British press... [claimed that Tony] Blair was simply Bush's poodle - a favorite phrase, bewilderingly popular, although it made no sense… — Larry King Copy Share Image
It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
We don't do focus groups - that is the job of the designer. It's unfair to ask people who don't have a… — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
“We don’t do focus groups—that is the job of the designer,” said Jony. “It’s unfair to ask people who don’t have a… — Leander Kahney Copy Share Image
What's the job of the candidate in this world? The job of the candidate is to raise the money to hire the… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of… — Dick Wolf Copy Share Image
Steve Jobs always believed that you didn't want to do focus groups or research and ask people what they wanted. You wanted… — Steve Case Copy Share Image
If you have ever sat in a focus group in a swing state, you are 100% certain that most soft partisans make… — Christopher Michael Cillizza Copy Share Image
They've seen me make decisions, they've seen me under trying times, they've seen me weep, they've seen me laugh, they've seen me… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I did a comedy with Al Franken about his character Stuart Smalley, which was really about alcoholism and addiction and codependency. It… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
To me the cynics are the ones in the boardrooms with the reports from the focus groups. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
You write things that are of interest to you. There's no focus group. — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
I have to write the story I want to write. I never wrote them with a focus group of 8-year-olds in mind.… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
A joke is either funny or it's not funny. If I hear a funny joke, you know what I do? I laugh,… — Alonzo Bodden Copy Share Image
In life, you know, they do this in focus groups; if you were in such and such circumstance, what would you do?… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
If you've got somebody in harm's way, you want the president being -- making advice, not -- be given advice by the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I have always done what I love myself. My philosophy was that I never had focus groups. I did what I wear. — Ralph Lauren Copy Share Image
I don't have any focus groups on talent and programming. If I need five people in a mall to be paid $40… — Roger Ailes Copy Share Image