The meals were served in a large hall, in which Moctezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered with mats and kept very clean.
~By Hernando Cortes ~
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 ~
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.
~By Elia Kazan ~
Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.
~By John Wanamaker ~
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 ~
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
~By Will Durant ~
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 ~
Even military ministers have no more than a certain amount of control. It is customary that they have the right and the power to participate, from a political and military point of view, in the planning of actual operations.
~By Hideki Tojo ~
I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?
~By John Steinbeck ~
Our multiaccess approach will make the life of the customer simpler.
~By Jean-Marie Messier ~
Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
~By Tom Peters ~
There is no point in launching technology before customers are ready to use it.
~By Peter Erskine ~
What we are seeing now is customers shifting their attention from security products like firewalls and intrusion sensors, to the policies that need to be in place, and the technologies that help them enforce policy compliance.
~By John W. Thompson ~
We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that "thousands" has almost passed out of the dictionary.
~By Everett Dirksen ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.
~By Adam Jones ~
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 ~
Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.
~By Stanley Marcus ~
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 ~
But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes.
~By Mitchell Baker ~
Am I an Apple bigot? No. I can critique their products and their customer service philosophy. But overall, they do better than any other player.
~By Donald Norman ~
I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.
~By Robert Moog ~
To me, the excitement is in ordering a fine shotgun, going through the process that everybody who has bought one has gone through for 100 years. You order it, you make a significant down payment, and then you wait three or four years for the gun to be custom-made for you.
~By Tom Selleck ~
So I think instead of focusing on the competition, focus on the customer.
~By Scott Cook ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.
~By Ross Perot ~
We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
~By Oscar de la Renta ~
Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders.
~By Vernon L. Smith ~
Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.
~By Sam Walton ~
Our customer base is not necessarily a leader, an early adopter.
~By Lee Scott ~
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 ~
Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.
~By Emma Lazarus ~
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 ~
It's so important to experience what your customers are experiencing and listen to their suggestions.
~By David Neeleman ~
When you stop talking, you've lost your customer. When you turn your back, you've lost her.
~By Estee Lauder ~
Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
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 ~
I don't like people who take drugs... Customs men for example.
~By Mick Miller ~
One, we committed to put about 650 people in the field to focus totally on customer satisfaction.
~By Sanjay Kumar ~
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 ~
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 ~
Pager companies are very much looking to provide new services to help them regain some of their customer base.
~By David Rose ~
To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing.
~By Michael Bolton ~
Your company's most valuable asset is how it is known to its customers.
~By Brian Tracy ~
One of Netscape's main attractions to customers from Day One is that we provide alternatives. And that's cherished by many customers - certainly not all.
~By Jim Barksdale ~
You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business.
~By Jim Cantalupo ~
Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers.
~By Elizabeth Arden ~
And, of course, customers really need to feel safe and are seeking reassurance when they fly.
~By David Neeleman ~
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 ~
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 ~
Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
~By John Berger ~
But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.
~By Orson Scott Card ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff.
~By Scott Cook ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
There are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.
~By Joel Barlow ~
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 ~
Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.
~By Charles Davenport ~
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 ~
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 ~
Custom adapts itself to expediency.
~By Tacitus ~
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 ~
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 ~
We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
~By Daniel Drew ~
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 ~
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 ~
The best interpreter of the law is custom.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
~By Ovid ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
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 ~
If you fire people, you fire customers.
~By Ferdinand Piech ~
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 ~
The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.
~By Tim O'Reilly ~
Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them.
~By Tim Berners Lee ~
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 ~
As long as my pictures go into theaters and we ask people to pay to see what I do on the screen, I should not object if customers want to know what kind of man I am.
~By Alan Ladd ~
Firms need to ensure that their ability to provide effective customer service keeps pace with their growth. If you're marketing your firm to new customers, you better be able to provide them service when they do business with you.
~By Arthur Levitt ~
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 ~
Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
~By Henry Miller ~
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