As I said before, a big part of my strategy says - and the management team I think is in agreement with this - we don't have to be out there with a lot of noise all the time. What we need to do is paint a vision for customers, promise them deliverables, and go hit at it.
~By Sanjay Kumar ~
The best interpreter of the law is custom.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted.
~By Richard V. Allen ~
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
~By Henry Ford ~
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 ~
I definitely think there was some overacting on the part of the customers and the wait staff. The people who came in during the shooting were clearly there to have a moment on television, and that's fine.
~By Rocco DiSpirito ~
I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past.
~By Mario Lemieux ~
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 ~
We asked ourselves what we wanted this company to stand for. We didn't want to just sell shoes. I wasn't even into shoes - but I was passionate about customer service.
~By Tony Hsieh ~
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 ~
We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that "thousands" has almost passed out of the dictionary.
~By Everett Dirksen ~
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.
~By Peter Kropotkin ~
There are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.
~By Joel Barlow ~
Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.
~By Vladimir Lenin ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
No one bill will cure the problem of spam. It will take a combined effort of legislation, litigation, enforcement, customer education, and technology solutions.
~By David Baker ~
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 ~
If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
~By Jeff Bezos ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.
~By Elia Kazan ~
What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.
~By Vivienne Westwood ~
Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
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 ~
That's a very critical phase in customer service because you can start to really understand what part of customer service has value to customers and what part is bothering customers.
~By Sanjay Kumar ~
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
~By Will Durant ~
The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.
~By Henry James Sumner Maine ~
The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
~By John Berger ~
Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
~By John Updike ~
The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geographers.
~By Heinrich Schliemann ~
Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.
~By Florenz Ziegfeld ~
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 ~
When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again.
~By Nikita Khrushchev ~
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 ~
I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.
~By Steve Jobs ~
Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries.
~By Albert Bushnell Hart ~
The gun dealer is not only paying these two police officers, but more importantly, the gun dealer has said he will never again sell more than one gun to a customer. This is exactly what we're trying to get the gun industry across the country to do.
~By Michael D. Barnes ~
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
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 ~
Our ports are owned by local governments who are responsible for the ports. It is the Coast Guard and Customs that provide security. The federal government will never outsource our security.
~By Kit Bond ~
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 ~
Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement.
~By James Cash Penney ~
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 ~
I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.
~By Robert Moog ~
That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.
~By Lydia M. Child ~
Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Because Microsoft seems to sometimes not trust customer choice, they salt XP with all these little gizmos and trap doors to get people to try Microsoft stuff. But the reality is that we're downloading more players than we ever have on a worldwide basis.
~By Rob Glaser ~
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
~By Plato ~
Treat your customers like lifetime partners.
~By Michael LeBoeuf ~
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 ~
I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.
~By Adam Jones ~
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 ~
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 ~
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
~By Mary Astell ~
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 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 ~
Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.
~By Jesse Helms ~
As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.
~By Jef Raskin ~
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 ~
New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.
~By Euripides ~
There are a lot of people who touch the customer.
~By Roger Staubach ~
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 ~
Custom reconciles us to everything.
~By Edmund Burke ~
The well-satisfied customer will bring the repeat sale that counts.
~By James Cash Penney ~
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 ~
Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
~By Harriet Martineau ~
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
~By Thomas Hardy ~
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 ~
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 ~
Yet, Puerto Rico's economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even though the island has been within the national borders, political system and customs territory of the U.S. for a century.
~By Dick Thornburgh ~
Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
~By Henry Miller ~
Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff.
~By Scott Cook ~
Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.
~By Alberto Moravia ~
And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties.
~By James Stockdale ~
Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.
~By William Temple ~
If you make the customer a promise... make sure you deliver it.
~By Merv Griffin ~
I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier.
~By James Cash Penney ~
There is no point in launching technology before customers are ready to use it.
~By Peter Erskine ~
Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time.
~By Moshe Sharett ~
Art was carrying me a lot of the time. When you're accustomed to playing with Art, and you play with other drummers, it's as if the bottom dropped out.
~By Benny Green ~
I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.
~By Buffalo Bill ~
Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don't have a change, you're bored. It's the same with fashion, you know. And that, I suppose, is what style is about.
~By Bill Blass ~
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 ~
The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
~By Tom Peters ~
In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally.
~By Jim Balsillie ~
Some story appears in some newspaper that says that somebody said X, Y, and Z, and a customer says, I don't understand what they're talking about - we're running that product, we've been using it for five years, what are they talking about?
~By Sanjay Kumar ~
In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.
~By Edmund S. Muskie ~
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 ~
The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one.
~By Henry James Sumner Maine ~
Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.
~By Michael Dell ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Right or wrong, the customer is always right.
~By Marshall Field ~
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 ~
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