Market Awareness Quotes

I enjoy looking at other people's products and learning from them. We take all of our competitors very seriously, as you know. You have to respect Intel. But we have our own tricks up our sleeves.

I don't like being naïve about the market, and I always try to make things as great as I can. Then I hope that there's an audience that enjoys them, and that hopefully those things get protected.

If no one knows your book is out there, no one will think about buying it. It's as simple as that.

Not being in tune with your customers is like living in an alternate reality; the way you think your customers feel about your product is not always the same as what your customers really think about your product.

I think my sister and I just focus on working hard. We started off working with Wal-Mart on our first clothing line as an extension of our personal brand when we were 12, and we got to learn about being aware of what was in the market and what wasn't.

It's incredibly important to be - once you do have a product - acutely observational about the trends.

I made my fortune by being able to spot a certain kind of man.

We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.

I'd say that, to be a good deal maker, you have to have 3 basic characteristics - timing, timing, and timing.

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

As part of being in the industry you do watch what others are doing. I think that's something good to do.

You want to look at what other companies are doing. It's very important not to be hermetically sealed. But you don't want to look at it as if, 'OK, we're going to copy that.' You want to look at it and say, 'That's very interesting. What can we be inspired to do as a result of that?' And then put your own unique twist on it.

I love small-business owners, and I actually love the idea of vintage clothing, but I don't get when they pretend that the Internet doesn't exist or that other customers have never been to the whole rest of the country where you can rummage around and buy the same dang belt for a buck and a half.

For an investor who is sitting in the United States, and South Africa is very far from the United States, you need to go out to that investor to say, these are the possibilities in this particular sector.

I don't mean you have to be overbearing, but you have to stay on top of things - read the trades, know what's going on in the town. I call it 'dare to be stupid.' The worst thing they can say is, 'We got nothing for you.' So I've hustled a lot.

Just as a fisherman must watch the ebb and flow of the tides, an investor and businessperson must be keenly aware of the subtle shifts in cash flow.

The best traders are not right more than they are wrong. They are quick adjusters. They are better at getting right when they are wrong.

Competition is good because we need to educate customers, and Ozon.ru itself will not be able to do it.

Warren Buffett is fond of saying that any player unaware of the fool in the market probably is the fool in the market.

I've got the knowledge and experience to know what's going on in the cage or the ring. And I know how to entertain an audience and how to use the microphone. I know my market.

If I knew what the next big thing was, I'd be doing it now.

If the CEO doesn’t see the playing field, nobody else can. The team may need to see it too, but the CEO really needs to be able to see the entire competitive space.

Understanding the customer, feeling what they are feeling, seeing what competitors are doing, you end up having a richer sense of the marketplace.

You have to be a little commercial, and that's what I learnt over the years.

I'm very analytical about the industry and I understand that there are value systems, and all sorts of things like that.