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  • Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.

    Business   People   Enemy  
  • Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.

    Eye   Science   Thinking  
  • I love market research because you really have an idea of what your consumers are looking for.

  • I don't really follow market research. In the end, I respond to my own instincts.

  • In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents per copy from subscribers, $1.25 at the newsstand and a whopping $5 per copy from ads. The ad revenue let them run a far bigger newsroom than subscribers were paying for.

  • It is the new and different that is always most vulnerable to market research.

  • Anything new and different is most susceptible to market research.

    "Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.
  • But this is where you get all the market research and things get in danger of becoming formulaic, and where you depend on brands and getting recognised actors. It's the thing that precludes risk very often, otherwise everyone would be avant-garde all over the place.

    "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.
  • The theme of corporate stories (and millions drink them in every day) seldom varies: to be happy you must consume, to be special you must conform. Absurd, obviously, yet our identities have become so fragile, so elusive, that we seem content to let advertisers provide us with their version of who we are, to let them recreate us in their image: a cookie-cutter image based on market research, shallow sociology, and insidious lies.

    "(Revisiting) The Syntax of Sorcery: An Interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. May 9, 2014.
  • Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.

  • You don't market-research a novel; you really are writing it for yourself. It's a hobby, in many ways. The problem becomes what you do when you're confronted by criticism. You just don't listen to it.

    Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. March 17, 1999.
  • USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.

    Funny   Math   Science  
  • What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

  • We don't believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.

  • The purely random sample is the only kind that can be examined with confidence by means of statistical theory, but there is one things wrong with it. It is so difficult and expensive to obtain for many uses that sheer cost eliminates it. A more economical substitute, which is almost universally used in such fields as opinion polling and market research, is called stratified random sampling.

    Mean   Cost   Use  
    Darrell Huff (2010). “How to Lie with Statistics”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company
  • Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear view mirror.

    The Independent Newspaper (UK), August 22, 1997.
  • A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make.

    Ideas   America   Likes  
  • Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.

    Wisdom   Witty   Humorous  
    "Work, Society, and Culture". The New York Times, December 16, 1957.
  • We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

    "Steve Jobs Lays It Down For Playboy". Playboy interview, gizmodo.com. July 15, 2011.
  • We only do what we think is good and what we're happy with. I do that in stand-up, I even do it with my children's books. I don't do market research, I don't have focus groups, I don't care. I don't care if it fails, honestly. I'd rather have something that's completely mine fail than something succeed that I'm not proud of.

    Interview with Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. January 10, 2007.
  • Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it. Don’t do market research.

  • Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?

    Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.170, Simon and Schuster
  • On the day he unveiled the Macintosh, a reporter from Popular Science asked Jobs what type of market research he had done. Jobs responded by scoffing, "Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?

    Jobs   Telephones   Done  
    Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.170, Simon and Schuster
  • There is very little sense that anybody really knows what works or why. But that's not a shock. And I don't think market research would solve that.

  • About 85 percent of what you see is just because I get on the phone and [say], 'Let's go do this'. I don't do any market research or test groups or focus [groups]. I just go, 'It's my company; would I buy it, personally?'

    Phones   Focus   Groups  
  • You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it's all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else.

  • Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.

    Chairman Habil Khorakiwala's speech of Wockhardt Ltd., economictimes.indiatimes.com. March 2013.
  • At the end of the process we called a market research company to find out whom the film was for or what was the target audience. We didn't have a lot of money to release the film, so in order for it to play in cinemas, which are dominated by films with much larger marketing budgets, we had to discover whom the film was for.

    Source: blogs.indiewire.com
  • The need to engage businesses and decision makers with customers can only increase in importance, and as it does, the market research industry must recognise that engagement is a facet of what we do.

    Business   Decision   Doe  
  • You'll learn more in a day talking to customers than a week of brainstorming, a month of watching competitors, or a year of market research.

    Twitter post from Oct 13, 2014
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