Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.
~By Jeff Bezos ~
The cost of acquiring new customers and maintaining those relationships in an online environment versus bricks and mortar is significant.
~By Stephen Cohen ~
I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.
~By Cameron Diaz ~
Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.
~By Alfred Marshall ~
So many people are accustomed to written information that you really have to have a few more bells and whistles in this day and age.
~By Chris Bell ~
The first step in exceeding your customer's expectations is to know those expectations.
~By Roy H. Williams ~
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
~By Dante Alighieri ~
A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.
~By Steve Jobs ~
Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.
~By Jimmy Stewart ~
In marketing I've seen only one strategy that can't miss - and that is to market to your best customers first, your best prospects second and the rest of the world last.
~By John Romero ~
When you stop talking, you've lost your customer. When you turn your back, you've lost her.
~By Estee Lauder ~
The biggest threat to McDonald's lies within - and that is us as a company becoming complacent. There are a lot of companies that get fat, dumb and happy and take their eye off the ball and forget about serving customers.
~By Charlie Bell ~
In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.
~By Carter G. Woodson ~
The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.
~By Richard Cobden ~
What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.
~By Vivienne Westwood ~
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
It puts the provider in a situation of looking for ways to have someone else pick up a piece of the cost. As a result, every customer who has insurance ends up paying a 'hidden premium.' It simply adds to the health care cost burden.
~By David Obey ~
I can't deny that some customers and prospects think it's the key to our future. But it's not. We're certainly supportive of the Dept. of Justice and the 20 states that have brought this action.
~By Jim Barksdale ~
We want to set a tone going into our fiscal year that starts Feb. 1, that Wal-Mart Stores is going to be aggressive in taking care of customers, taking care of our associates, communications and merchandising.
~By Lee Scott ~
I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.
~By Giorgio Armani ~
Some had the custom of receiving the Eucharist daily, some twice a week, some on the Lord's day, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, some only on the Lord's Day.
~By Martin Chemnitz ~
These are busy times for the Border Patrol, the customs agents, immigration folks; but if we are going to send these agencies to fight a war on drugs, to fight a war against illegal behavior, we have to send them the proper tools.
~By Bob Filner ~
In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally.
~By Jim Balsillie ~
You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.
~By Alan Rickman ~
Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.
~By Michael Dell ~
What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.
~By Tim O'Reilly ~
I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.
~By Jack Dee ~
The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.
~By Henry James Sumner Maine ~
Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.
~By J. Martin Kohe ~
Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.
~By Flannery O'Connor ~
One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
~By Dorothy Allison ~
We can collaborate with a Netscape employee or partner who's halfway around the world. We can distribute information and software to customers and shareholders, and get their feedback.
~By Jim Barksdale ~
If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business at all.
~By Leo Burnett ~
Custom is second nature.
~By Saint Aurelius Augustine ~
As the winter set in with its customary Canadian severity the real trouble of the French began. They did not suffer from the cold, but they were dying of scurvy.
~By Harry Johnston ~
And so if your competitors aren't growing, if there isn't a competitive reason to grow, and you want focus and discipline to add customers to existing stores, you adjust your strategy.
~By Jim Cantalupo ~
Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
~By Aaron Hill ~
I talked about 12 to 18 months, and that's about reaffirming our foundation for sustained growth: getting the discipline back, getting the basics right, getting the customer focus back... so by the end of next year, I hope most of that's in place.
~By Jim Cantalupo ~
New Hampshire state government is a big customer for prescription drug companies. Just as businesses do, we should take advantage of the bargaining power we have as a big customer.
~By John Lynch ~
Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature.
~By Paul Berg ~
In the commercial real estate business, brokers spearhead major accounts. But they wouldn't have customers without the people who oversee construction.
~By Roger Staubach ~
I think that's because believable action is based on authenticity, and accuracy is very important to me. I always spend time researching my novels, exploring the customs and attitudes of the county I'm using for their setting.
~By Sidney Sheldon ~
Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff.
~By Scott Cook ~
Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers.
~By Ross Perot ~
It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and they'll keep coming back.
~By Dave Thomas ~
Customers want good value, but they care more than ever how food and clothing products are made.
~By Stuart Rose ~
Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
~By William Hazlitt ~
It's so important to experience what your customers are experiencing and listen to their suggestions.
~By David Neeleman ~
Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.
~By Stanley Marcus ~
The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
~By Adam Smith ~
When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again.
~By Nikita Khrushchev ~
There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media.
~By Rush Limbaugh ~
Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.
~By Felix Adler ~
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.
~By Bo Bennett ~
The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
~By Leon Trotsky ~
I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
~By Daniel Defoe ~
As a GM Goodwrench Service Plus dealer, I understand how good service makes a difference to our customers.
~By Dale Earnhardt ~
If you fire people, you fire customers.
~By Ferdinand Piech ~
The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.
~By John Owen ~
We were excited when we sold our first 10 records. I always felt that if we could get the music out there, and if people became accustomed to it, then a substantial number of them would enjoy it.
~By Greg Ginn ~
We also provide a lot of services with our consulting group that allow people to take maximum advantage of the Net economy. Those all seem to resonate with customers and are providing a good strong base going forward.
~By Jim Barksdale ~
Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.
~By Major Owens ~
Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
The American work ethic is something to be admired. Our workforce, regardless of position, works hard to produce the best product and serve customers to the best of their ability.
~By Leonard Boswell ~
Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.
~By Michael LeBoeuf ~
A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.
~By Michael LeBoeuf ~
This year I hope to introduce legislation that would require Power Administrations to list direct and indirect costs associated with ESA compliance as a line item on customer's power bills.
~By Cathy McMorris ~
Sam Walton's values are: treat the customer right, take care of your people, be honest in your dealings, pass savings along to the customer, keep things simple, think small, control costs and continuously improve operations.
~By Michael Bergdahl ~
I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.
~By Kylie Minogue ~
If you make the customer a promise... make sure you deliver it.
~By Merv Griffin ~
And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties.
~By James Stockdale ~
Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.
~By Robert Hall ~
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers.
~By Elizabeth Arden ~
Intel's still our main partner. We have not announced anything with AMD and don't have anything planned, but we're constantly being aware to make sure our customers get the best technology.
~By Kevin Rollins ~
Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.
~By Marcus V. Pollio ~
We can provide beta software to our developers in advance of the general public. We can easily link up with external partners, customers, and suppliers.
~By Jim Barksdale ~
As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions, writing reports.
~By Merton Miller ~
Pager companies are very much looking to provide new services to help them regain some of their customer base.
~By David Rose ~
Last year, customs officials screened only five percent of the 11 million cargo containers entering the United States. That rate is both unacceptable and dangerous to our national and economic interests.
~By Allyson Schwartz ~
This merger is a logical next step that creates substantial value for customers and stockholders of both AT&T and BellSouth. It will benefit customers through new services and expanded service capabilities.
~By Edward Whitacre, Jr. ~
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.
~By Elia Kazan ~
Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.
~By Jesse Helms ~
Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
~By Gavin Newsom ~
No player can become accustomed to New York's climate in August in a few days. The playing conditions, the courts in New York and France are very different.
~By Helen Wills Moody ~
So in 2000, when we changed the business model and started really focusing on that triangle and putting the customer in the center, we decided we should hold off - we've done enough consolidation; we've got enough critical mass.
~By Sanjay Kumar ~
But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes.
~By Mitchell Baker ~
You must never actually cheat the customer, even if you can. You must make her happy and satisfied, so she will come back.
~By Alexander Turney Stewart ~
So I think instead of focusing on the competition, focus on the customer.
~By Scott Cook ~
Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.
~By Peter Drucker ~
It's a growing trend. Viewers are our customers, but so are advertisers. And advertisers want different ways to reach our viewers.
~By Jeff Zucker ~
They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.
~By William Congreve ~
I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
~By Johann Kaspar Lavater ~
It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.
~By Pope Gregory VII ~
If we take care of the customers and associates and grow the business, Wall Street will be pleased.
~By Lee Scott ~
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
~By Will Durant ~
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