If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.
~By Ray Kroc ~
To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing.
~By Michael Bolton ~
What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.
~By Vivienne Westwood ~
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 ~
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 ~
Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.
~By Jesse Helms ~
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 ~
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 ~
Pager companies are very much looking to provide new services to help them regain some of their customer base.
~By David Rose ~
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 ~
All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
~By Tom Peters ~
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 ~
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 ~
But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes.
~By Mitchell Baker ~
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 ~
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
~By Sam Walton ~
The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.
~By Henry James Sumner Maine ~
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 ~
Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
When you stop talking, you've lost your customer. When you turn your back, you've lost her.
~By Estee Lauder ~
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 ~
Our variety is one of the key reasons our customers love us. We continue to provide all of the menu items they love, while also offering new items to try.
~By Kenny Harrison ~
There are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.
~By Joel Barlow ~
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 ~
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 ~
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.
~By Ruth Benedict ~
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 ~
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 ~
I've gone through back surgery a couple times, and of course, my radiation treatments for six weeks got me to the point where I was not able to play at the level that I was accustomed to.
~By Mario Lemieux ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.
~By Michael LeBoeuf ~
Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.
~By Michael LeBoeuf ~
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 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 ~
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
~By W. Edwards Deming ~
Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement.
~By James Cash Penney ~
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 ~
Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.
~By W. Edwards Deming ~
Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls.
~By Rudolf Otto ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
If you make the customer a promise... make sure you deliver it.
~By Merv Griffin ~
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
~By Mary Astell ~
We need to take excellent care of our customers, and do so at a profit.
~By Gerard Arpey ~
At a car dealership, the person who sells the car is the hero, and also gets the commission. But if the mechanics don't service that car well, the customer won't return.
~By Roger Staubach ~
Laws are subordinate to custom.
~By Titus Maccius Plautus ~
In my column series "The Main Thing," I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners.
~By Jim Barksdale ~
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 ~
One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.
~By Dorothy Allison ~
There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.
~By Mario Batali ~
Salads was a big indicator of that - there was a huge market out there for it. And why not tap it? Some of the things we are doing now around the globe are responding to customers. It's not because some guy sued you.
~By Jim Cantalupo ~
Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.
~By Sam Walton ~
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 ~
We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want.
~By Laura Ashley ~
We opened a design center in the South of England last year as part of our strategy for being close to our customers and developing innovative products for exciting new markets.
~By David Milne ~
If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business at all.
~By Leo Burnett ~
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 ~
I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.
~By Jack Dee ~
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 ~
Our multiaccess approach will make the life of the customer simpler.
~By Jean-Marie Messier ~
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 ~
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 ~
Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads.
~By Fritz Kreisler ~
If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.
~By Manuel Puig ~
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 ~
People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'
~By Sinclair Lewis ~
And, of course, customers really need to feel safe and are seeking reassurance when they fly.
~By David Neeleman ~
Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
~By John Berger ~
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 ~
Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.
~By Emma Lazarus ~
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 ~
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
~By Will Durant ~
The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.
~By Elia Kazan ~
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 ~
Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.
~By Michael Dell ~
Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
~By Samuel Daniel ~
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 ~
Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
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 ~
Our customers call and e-mail us to say that's how it feels when a Zappos box arrives. And that's how we view this company.
~By Tony Hsieh ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I'd just like to be treated like a regular customer.
~By Elvis Presley ~
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 ~
Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment.
~By Curt Flood ~
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 ~
If we take care of the customers and associates and grow the business, Wall Street will be pleased.
~By Lee Scott ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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