Louis R. Chenevert Quotes

Great products sell themselves.

If you look at iPod, iPod wasn't viewed as a success, but today it's viewed as an overnight success. The iPhone was the same way. People were writing about there's no physical keyboard. Obviously nobody would want it.

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

The iPhone is made on a global scale, and it blends computers, the Internet, communications, and artificial intelligence in one blockbuster, game-changing innovation. It reflects so many of the things that our contemporary world is good at - indeed, great at.

Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products - iPod, iPhone, iPad - that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.

You need more than just a great idea. Your product or service must add an enormous amount of value to some industry. If the idea isn't completely new, it has to be better, cheaper, or more efficient than what we already have.

The reason Apple is really good, I think, and the reason their stores succeeded, is not just 'cause we know the big idea, but we have a real passion for the littlest detail. It's legendary in our products.

I'd rather Apple cannibalize Apple than somebody else cannibalize Apple.

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

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won't make a company successful.

I try as much as possible to give you a great basic product and what comes out, I feel, is really amazing.

It can't be that difficult to build a great thermostat. So I decided to figure out: What would the thermostat for the iPhone generation look like? I got this bug. It really infected my brain. I kept thinking about it. This could be a cool product that matters and a cool product that has a great business.

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

If we can become the de facto standard for image capture of unique perspectives around the world, we have a lot of growth ahead of us.

Any products associated with a Apple are going to win. The people who make the Apple products are going to win.

From the early days, Booking.com has been disruptive. Our aim is to create the best product for our customers, and we do that through constant innovation and testing.

I fully agree with innovation and letting the best product win.

Apple is on fire, delivering smash hits across its entire product line. It's hard to think of another company that has ever been on such a roll.

I just want to build great products.

Great product trumps all. You can have the biggest marketing budget, the biggest show, a perfect merchandising plan, but at the end of the day, it doesn't mean anything if the design and quality of the product you are offering is not compelling.

Being a tech company has to be about a pattern of repetitive innovation.

By the time I got into test work, it was dying out. It wasn't really flight test at all; it was mostly testing new gadgets.

I've witnessed firsthand the critical role suppliers - and especially the best ones - play in Boeing's success.

The engineering, analytics, design, testing, and delivery behind our products offer some of the hardest engineering and business challenges in the world. As we've brought our franchises into eSports and moved to digital delivery, it's become even more complex and exciting - which, in turn, has allowed us attract even more top talent.

I do think that deciding between a particular discovery and a technological breakthrough - I would always think the impact is probably much larger for the technological breakthrough.