Customer Quote by Ben Horowitz Download Open image ““out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.”” — Ben Horowitz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Customer Customer Job Innovator Innovator Job Product Innovator
It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
“How can we walk away from requirements that we know to be true to pursue something that we think will help?” It turns out… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
“If you want to go big in the business world, you need to have the right product at the right time.” — Pooja Agnihotri Copy Share Image
“Product management might not be the right career path for a person that is averse to change.” — Richard Banfield Copy Share Image
“In some instances, I’ve found that executives don’t even use their own products.” — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
“For a company to innovate, it must create products and services that let consumers perform a job faster, better, more conveniently, and/or less expensively… — Anthony Ulwick Copy Share Image
“I am a great customer. I’m not a loyal customer, but that’s what makes me great—my willingness to shop other brands for better buys.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Customers are people. They lead lives. They have kids, they eat too much, they don’t sleep well, they phone in sick, they get bored,… — Alistair Croll Copy Share Image
There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics,… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
“The hard thing is when those “great people” develop a sense of entitlement and start demanding unreasonable things. The hard thing isn’t setting up… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
“As painful as it might be, I knew that we had to get into the broader market in order to understand it well enough… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
“On my grandfather’s tombstone, you will find his favorite Marx quote: “Life is struggle.” I believe that within that quote lies the most important… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Bill Campbell: "It's not about the money." Ben Horowitz: "What's it about, Bill?" Bill: "It's about the FUCKING money.” — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
When the value of the company clearly has fallen below what its assets are worth, having a shareholder who says, 'Let's get a better… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
One person is never as stupid as a group of people. That's why they have lynch mobs, not lynch individuals. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they're hallucinating — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
When screening engineers from other companies, its smart to value engineers from great companies more than those from mediocre companies. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Many early-stage entrepreneurs make one simple mistake: Describing this 'big picture' in vague concepts and words. — Sunil Nagaraj Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
The exact details of how you practice value investing will vary investor to investor, but the fundamental principle of scouring the world, looking for… — Whitney Tilson Copy Share Image
The best way to hold customers is to constantly figure out how to give them more for less. — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most important reason to be skeptical of government inflation numbers is that the government, like a fox campaigning to guard a hen… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
When the dollar collapses, it's not doing it in a vacuum. If the dollar loses value, it's doing so relative to some other currency.… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
Corporations invest in sophisticated CRM, or Customer Relationship Management, programs to effectively oversee their relationship with their customers at every point during the buying… — Marc Ostrofsky Copy Share Image
I believe confusion is good. Worldwide market leaders gain when there is confusion in the market. — Subhash Chandra Copy Share Image
