Quotes by Tony Fadell

Typical mergers happen when there are two competitors coming together, and they reduce overhead.

— Tony Fadell

Wisdom

At the end of the day, customer choice is essential. And we don't make products that compete with Apple, nor make products that compete with Google. Our customers come in both iOS and Android flavors, and I hope our customers can still buy the products they want to purchase wherever they want to purchase them.

— Tony Fadell

Hope

Computers are great tools, but they need to be applied to the physical world.

— Tony Fadell

Life

I don't want the iPod to be my defining thing.

— Tony Fadell

Wisdom

I look at the world and peer into products and think, 'What's wrong with these products?'

— Tony Fadell

Life

Learning by doing is the only way I know how to learn.

— Tony Fadell

Education

Most thermostats are built by plumbing companies. But you really need to understand how to build a phone to make them better.

— Tony Fadell

Wisdom

People buy products, and they want to understand what those things are and how they are applicable to their life.

— Tony Fadell

Life

Usually, the biggest companies are not the most dynamic.

— Tony Fadell

Wisdom

We built the iPod in weeks. It had to be what I thought it was going to be because there wasn't time for endless refinements.

— Tony Fadell

Wisdom

Every person I talk to has a story about how their smoke alarm went off or woke them up with a battery beeping. So you take it off the wall and you take the battery out and say 'screw this.' They hate the products.

— Tony Fadell

Wisdom

I've been working with contractors designing and building a house on a nonstop basis since 2005. I learned about all these systems of audio, construction, electricity, energy, water systems.

— Tony Fadell

Success

Nest really came out of a process where I was trying to design the most connected and the most green home that I knew of. I was curious of just about everything that goes into a home and building a home.

— Tony Fadell

Wisdom

Well, you can say there is a self driving car. I'm seeing the automation of vehicles. Really, computer-assisted driving. I think that is really interesting to us because we are taking all of the sensors technologies and putting them in cars and making people safer.

— Tony Fadell

Wisdom

You need to set near-term milestones. Put the assumptions down on paper, and make it to your vision or ultimate product. Your team has to understand where they're going. Your partners need to understand where they're going.

— Tony Fadell

Wisdom

Your television has changed, your phone has changed. Why don't these other things you need, that the government tells you you must have in your home, change?

— Tony Fadell

Wisdom

Having kids makes you think about the world differently.

— Tony Fadell

Life

I learned the power of 'no.' No is really important. Entrepreneurs are told to say 'yes, yes, more, more.'

— Tony Fadell

Education

I started designing the greenest the most connected home before the iPhone and the iPad.

— Tony Fadell

Wisdom

I used to work about 100 hours a week; now it's about 70. But 40 hours? Forget about it. Either you're all in, or your not.

— Tony Fadell

Success

If you don't have an emotionally engaging design for a device, no one will care about it.

— Tony Fadell

Wisdom

In Tahoe, you want to be able check on the temperature of the house or turn it on before you get there. Because it's really cold in the winter.

— Tony Fadell

Wisdom

Studies have shown that children are less likely to wake up to a horn than the sound of a mother's voice.

— Tony Fadell

Wisdom

With most tech guys, it's the same outfit every day - they wear their company logo.

— Tony Fadell

Wisdom