No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
~By Carrie Chapman Catt ~
I was with some Vietnamese recently, and some of them were smoking two cigarettes at the same time. That's the kind of customers we need!
~By Jesse Helms ~
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
~By Mary Astell ~
It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.
~By Grenville Kleiser ~
Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Customers want good value, but they care more than ever how food and clothing products are made.
~By Stuart Rose ~
Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living.
~By Rudolf Arnheim ~
And our size: The company this year is going to be close to $50 billion, so if that's the case and you can continue to grow that fast, I would rather put my energies to solving customer problems and growing our business than worrying about integrating and laying people off.
~By Kevin Rollins ~
Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another.
~By Lee Konitz ~
If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice.
~By Lewis Tappan ~
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 ~
We also had good software in the key categories and more focus on the gameplaying capability, so more of the marketing effort was targeted at game customers.
~By Trip Hawkins ~
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 ~
Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.
~By Stanley Marcus ~
You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business.
~By Jim Cantalupo ~
So far, Indian companies have focused more on customer application. This needs to shift to packaged software for sectors such as banking and financial services.
~By Sanjay Kumar ~
We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.
~By William Robertson Smith ~
The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
~By L. Neil Smith ~
Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
~By Ovid ~
We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning from them.
~By Miguel de Icaza ~
They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.
~By Frederic Bastiat ~
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 ~
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 ~
If we take care of the customers and associates and grow the business, Wall Street will be pleased.
~By Lee Scott ~
I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I'm using for locations, and interviewing the people who live there. I've visited over 90 countries thus far.
~By Sidney Sheldon ~
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.
~By Michael Dell ~
What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.
~By James J. Gibson ~
It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.
~By Steve Jobs ~
The tide of immigration in Canada has not been as great as along our frontier. They have been able to allow the Indians to live as Indians, which we have not, and do not attempt to force upon them the customs which are distasteful to them.
~By Nelson A. Miles ~
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 ~
Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.
~By Barry McCaffrey ~
Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree.
~By Richard Harris ~
Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff.
~By Scott Cook ~
We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.
~By Jeff Bezos ~
Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don't have to explain ourselves for the most part.
~By Paul Graham ~
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
~By Peter Drucker ~
Custom reconciles us to everything.
~By Edmund Burke ~
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
~By Bill Gates ~
One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
~By Dorothy Allison ~
Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers.
~By Les Brown ~
If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own.
~By Herodotus ~
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 ~
When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.
~By Nikki Giovanni ~
The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.
~By Linus Torvalds ~
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.
~By Michael LeBoeuf ~
I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.
~By Eddie Bernice Johnson ~
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 ~
Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
We will ensure that associates continue to possess unsurpassed product knowledge and maintain their dedication to customer service and respect for their colleagues and for the communities in which they work and live.
~By Arthur Blank ~
You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.
~By Alan Rickman ~
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 ~
Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers.
~By Elizabeth Arden ~
New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.
~By Euripides ~
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 ~
So if you're a customer today, the same person who came in to demonstrate the technology for you and helped you architect the solution before you bought it is likely going to be leading the team to help you do the implementation.
~By Sanjay Kumar ~
Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
~By Samuel Daniel ~
Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.
~By Jimmy Stewart ~
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 ~
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 ~
Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.
~By Charles Davenport ~
The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
~By Karl Von Clausewitz ~
We used to speak familiarly of an agent, now do more, who was accustomed to manufacture evidence, and to invent facts in his cases, or at least to alter the aspects of facts to such an extent that they might fairly be viewed as new.
~By George Combe ~
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
He or she must be successful in economic terms, but always within an ethical framework. Whether his or her constituency is a corporation and its shareholders or the customers in a small and privately held business, his or her first responsibility is to serve that constituency.
~By Lee R. Raymond ~
As regards this country, in which protection has always to some extent existed, it is the best customer that England ever had, and our demands upon her grow most steadily and regularly under protection.
~By Henry Charles Carey ~
It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
~By Manfred von Richthofen ~
But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes.
~By Mitchell Baker ~
We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.
~By Muhammad Ali Jinnah ~
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
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 ~
Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores.
~By Bill Alexander ~
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 ~
Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.
~By Charles Sturt ~
A tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and customs, from which the first Christians had recoiled.
~By Robert Rainy ~
That's the ultimate gratification in any business situation - do customers buy the product? And do they use it and do they come back and buy more of it?
~By Jim Barksdale ~
The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
~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 ~
By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.
~By John Acton ~
There is no point in launching technology before customers are ready to use it.
~By Peter Erskine ~
We can serve our customers well only if our buying jobs are right. You cannot sell if you haven't ordered wanted goods into your store.
~By James Cash Penney ~
Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties.
~By James Stockdale ~
The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.
~By Thomas J. Watson ~
I don't really like to talk specifically about customers by name - but we work with nearly all the leading manufacturers of consumer products worldwide and at quite a detailed engineering level.
~By David Milne ~
I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.
~By Adam Jones ~
We're both accustomed to being the center of attention. We're both accustomed to being spoiled by the people around us. And we don't expect to have to compete with somebody for all of that.
~By Jim Lampley ~
Followers are the customers of the Higher Ground Leader, who strives to meet or exceed the outer and inner needs of followers.
~By Lance Secretan ~
But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches.
~By William Robertson Smith ~
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 ~
When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal.
~By Saint Ambrose ~
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 ~
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Right or wrong, the customer is always right.
~By Marshall Field ~
More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.
~By Stephen Carter ~
If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
~By Jeff Bezos ~
Our customer base is not necessarily a leader, an early adopter.
~By Lee Scott ~
Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.
~By Edward Thorndike ~
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