No amount of VC money or good marketing can save a bad product. Period.

Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.

If your product requires advertising or salespeople to sell it, it’s not good enough.

BoP consumer problems cannot be solved with old technologies.

An infinite advertising budget cannot counteract products that are disconnected from our biological heritage.

If your Idea cannot change the industry, you have added no value.

If you’ve invented something new but you haven’t invented an effective way to sell it, you have a bad business — no matter how good the product.

Sound an alarm! Advertising, not deals, builds brands.

The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions: the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man.

In the Buddha’s teaching, unless you cast away body and life, there can be no realization of benefit.

On my view there is no net benefit to coming into existence and thus coming into existence is never worth its costs.

It is often charged that advertising can persuade people to buy inferior products. So it can – once. But the consumer perceives that the product is inferior and never buys it again. This causes grave financial loss to the manufacturer, whose profits come from repeat purchases. The best way to increase the sale of a product is to improve the product.

If you have invented sth new but you have not invented an effective way to sell it, you have a bad business - no matter how good the product

No technology company can be built on branding alone.