Top 100 Business Customers Quotes
#1. Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don't have to explain ourselves for the most part.
Paul Graham
#2. 500 dollars? Fully subsidized? With a plan? I said that is the most expensive phone in the world. And it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard. Which makes it not a very good email machine.
Steve Ballmer
#3. Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers.
Ross Perot
#4. Building a business doesn't mean getting venture capital funding. It means finding customers and making money.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#5. If you don't care about the lapel or the buttons or the fit, then you are doing a disservice to the consumer. We're all inside the tunnel, speaking the language of business, but we need to speak the language of customers.
Mickey Drexler
#6. In business, we often say that your best customers are the customers you have now. In other words, your most successful sales leads come from the selling you've already done.
Keith Ferrazzi
#7. Innovation happens at the intersection of people, process, technology, customers, and business ecosystem.
Pearl Zhu
#8. No matter what a person's job is, they should be encouraged to have opinions about the business, industry, customers and partners,
Eric Schmidt
#9. New customers are the best source of new business
Frank Bettger
#10. We need to move from comparative advantage to perpetual advantage ...
Max McKeown
#11. Repeat business or behavior can be bribed. Loyalty has to be earned.
Janet L. Robinson
#12. A frustration I have is that a lot of people increasingly seem to equate an advertising business model with somehow being out of alignment with your customers. I think it's the most ridiculous concept.
Mark Zuckerberg
#13. Our customers are not our competitors. We compete for them, not with them.
T Jay Taylor
#14. Learning how to interact with customers is something that anyone starting any business must master. It's an amazing opportunity to be able to learn the ropes at an established company and then employ your expertise at your own company.
Marc Benioff
#15. If you know what your customers want, the other aspect to know is what are your competitors doing?
Shawn Casemore
#16. To have a healthy and thriving business, there must be healthy relationships with the C.E.O.S. in the organization and I'm not referring to the Chief Executive Offficers. I am talking about the Customers, the Employees, the Owner (or stockholders), and the Suppliers.
James Hunter
#17. Never forget that absolutely everything you do is for your customers. Make every decision - even decisions about whether to expand the business, raise money, or promote someone - according to what's best for your customers.
Derek Sivers
#18. The future-driven IT organizations step out of the traditional IT box, to understand the business and customers better via longer time frame.
Pearl Zhu
#19. 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.
Ross Perot
#20. The Internet means everything to everybody and it's growing by the day. You can't survive as a business, especially a small business, without having some form of good Internet presence; whether you're a shop or it's a showcase or just a way to talk to your customers.
Theo Paphitis
#21. You can never go too far wrong by thinking like a customer who's new to the business.
Richard Branson
#22. 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.
Arthur Levitt
#23. Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
W. Edwards Deming
#24. You begin with the Problem, or the need you're addressing. Then you proceed to the Solution, your product or service that fulfills the need. The Market is the target customers to whom you will offer your solution. Finally, Business is all about the ways you're going to capture that market.
Chris Lipp
#25. Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud.
Bill Ackman
#26. DevOps shows how we optimize the IT value stream, converting business needs into capabilities and services that provide value for our customers.
Gene Kim
#27. Make your customers comfortable and they will give you their lives.
Paul Orfalea
#28. The only way to know how customers see your business is to look at it through their eyes
Daniel R. Scoggin
#29. role has changed, from telling the world what their business is about to listening to what our customers are saying about us,
Anonymous
#30. By getting your customers to agree with you in small steps along the way, you have a better chance of reaching agreement when it's time to do business.
Harvey MacKay
#31. Big business depends entirely on the patronage of those who buy its products: the biggest enterprises loses its power and its influence when it loses its customers.
Ludwig Von Mises
#32. We will have to become 'perpetual marketers', to learn to be channel and data planners without losing our human insight or creativity; to vastly increase the level of accountability and provide more relevant experiences for customers.
John Woodward
#33. Profit isn't and shouldn't be the mission of business. The mission of business is to help people. To help your customers, your co-workers, your employees, and your partners. Success is not a number - it's not X dollars or Y customers - it's a measurement of VALUE.
Fran Tarkenton
#34. Realize that employees and the customers both have to be engaged, at the same time, to move your business forward for sustainable success.
Robert G. Thompson
#35. Your best customers are worth far more than your average customers.
Seth Godin
#36. The trust institutions have in the marketplace, the confidence customers and suppliers and workers and employees have, are very important to a business's effectiveness.
Janet Yellen
#37. The true business of every company is to make and keep customers.
Peter Drucker
#38. Anything a customer can do for themselves is where service stops and relevance begins.
Jim Blasingame
#39. Information is a business in itself. It is also something that has made control impossible ... you cannot get customers to accept prices in one place when they know there's a better deal elsewhere. It's a whole new world.
Walter Wriston
#40. Customers want brands that are narrow in scope and distinguishable by a single word, the shorter the better.
Al Ries
#41. Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.
Mark Cuban
#42. Customers, like spouses, can be at your beck and call if you give them what they need, when they need it and how they need it. Massage their ego and you have them by the heart.
J. N. HALM
#43. If you take the approach of "earning" your customers' business every day and treating them well, they're less likely to try someone else.
Marilyn Suttle
#44. How you think about your customers influences how you respond to them.
Marilyn Suttle
#45. 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.
Jeff Bezos
#47. This may seem simple, but you need to give customers what they want, not what you think they want. And, if you do this, people will keep coming back.
John Ilhan
#48. Selling eternal life is an unbeatable business, with no customers ever asking for their money back after the goods are not delivered.
Victor J. Stenger
#49. No business plan survives first contact with customers.
Derek Sivers
#50. You don't run a business from your office, you run a business looking at the faces of your customers to be sure they're happy.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#51. If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're too late. Good business leaders should be half a step ahead of what customers want, i.e. they don't actually quite know they want it. That's what innovation's about. With Plan A, we didn't wait for the consumers to tell us.
Stuart Rose
#52. Customers shouldn't just think of your business as a place to buy a product or use a service - it should be a fun place to be.
Richard Branson
#53. If you want to stay in business, satisfy customers. If you want to excel in business, delight customers.
Ron Kaufman
#54. It was grounded in my belief at the time that a business is only as strong as its closest customer relationships, and that what those customers said about our business beyond our four walls would shape our future. I
Gary Vaynerchuk
#55. The business of selling is not just about matching viable solutions to the customers that require them. It's equally about managing the change process the customer will need to go through to implement the solution and achieve the value promised by the solution
Jeff Thull
#56. If we take care of the customers and associates and grow the business, Wall Street will be pleased.
Lee Scott
#57. Until you understand your customers - deeply and genuinely - you cannot hope to serve them
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#58. The need to engage businesses and decision makers with customers can only increase in importance, and as it does, the market research industry must recognise that engagement is a facet of what we do.
Alex Johnston
#59. Customer conversion is dependent on the right customer conversation
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#60. avoid the common business pitfall of making business decisions based on the company's skill set rather than on the customers' needs and desires.
Jeofrey Bean
#61. The ultimate profit from all of my businesses is to be happy and to make all of the customers happy.
Debasish Mridha
#62. Our focus is our customers' success. At the end of the day, if your customers are successful, they will also be satisfied. But satisfaction is not success. In today's business environment, and certainly in tomorrow's, mistaking one for the other can be fatal.
Rob Bernshteyn
#63. Who are we, and how do we relate this idea in a way that's meaningful to our customers and the values they hold dear?
In other words, one must define something meaningful. To do that, one must identify to whom this must be meaningful.
David Brier
#64. Raising the minimum wage allows business people to stop thinking about workers simply as costs to be cut and allows you to start thinking about workers as customers to be cultivated.
Nick Hanauer
#65. The internet has opened the door for millions of businesses to do things differently, because there are other assets now, assets that can transcend location. Your permission to talk to customers, your reputation, your unique products-you can build a business around them online.
Seth Godin
#66. If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders including employees, customers, business partners and the communities within which they operate.
Don Tapscott
#67. Meanwhile, the empty forms of social behavior survive inappropriately in business situations. We all know that when a business sends its customers 'friendly reminders,' it really means business.
Judith Martin
#68. We watch our competitors, learn from them, see the things that they were doing for customers and copy those things as much as we can.
Jeff Bezos
#69. You have to realize that the customer really is king. People who go into more established businesses probably have to be careful not to be casual about that. When you have a brand-new business, and nobody knows who you are, you know you have to work really hard for your customers.
Fred DeLuca
#70. For a long time, to obtain enterprise customers, I concealed the fact that I owned the company. I never lied about it, but I never volunteered that information. My business card didn't even have a title
Rebecca Enonchong
#71. Those activities which are not concerned with numbers, but which are concerned with humans(Customers and Employees) is known as business. Numbers will ultimately increase if humans are happy who are involved in.
Rakesh Wadhwani
#72. At a lot of companies founded on principles, the notion of making money is almost antithetical to the ethos of the place. From the very beginning, our business has existed to meet the needs and desires of multiple constituencies: customers, team members, vendors, shareholders, the community.
John Mackey
#73. Massachusetts led the nation passing the first state minimum wage a century ago in June 1912, and with passage of an $11 state minimum wage ... will be leading the nation again with a wage floor that is good for business, good for customers and good for our economy.
Holly Sklar
#74. Customers don't expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong.
Don Porter
#75. What did I expect of him? Very little, I promise you. One more dented little face. One more adolescent freak. The usual unusual. One great thing about being in the adjustment business: you're never short of customers.
Peter Shaffer
#76. We believe that a company's obligations extend far beyond its bottom line and its shareholders - to a wider constituency that includes employees, customers, suppliers, and the community.
John A. Byrne
#77. 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.
Lee R. Raymond
#78. Sales is a business of relationships, and you must cultivate customers with tenderness and love, like cabbages in winter, even if the customer is an egomaniacal asshole you want to hit with a shovel.
Max Barry
#79. If you are seizing on a new business opportunity, deliberately move your customers' expectations up a few notches and consistently over-deliver on your promises - you will leave your competitors struggling to catch up.
Richard Branson
#80. Any business that is looking for new customers needs to understand the Internet and how to market their goods or services through it.
Eric Lefkofsky
#81. After all, your company doesn't define customer experience. Customers do. Customer experience is based on how your customers perceive your organization and how well you meet their needs when they interact with, hear about, and do business with your company.
Michael Hinshaw
#83. If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends.
Jeff Bezos
#84. The reality is that most companies are not about any values at all - they are about making money. It is extremely rare for a business to stand for anything because most businesses don't want to alienate potential customers, and if you believe in anything you are going to alienate someone.
Jerry Greenfield
#85. Businessmen are not in business to lose customers, and schools do not exist to free their clients from the agencies of mass persuasion. School and media possess a productive monopoly upon the imagination of a child.
Jonathan Kozol
#86. Customers want to make informed decisions based on useful information, valuable engagements and brand affinity.
Dane Brookes
#87. There are all kinds of wonderful new inventions that give you nothing as owners except the opportunity to spend a lot more money in a business that's still going to be lousy. The money still won't come to you. All of the advantages from great improvements are going to flow through to the customers.
Charlie Munger
#88. Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.
Walt Disney
#89. Who are businesses really responsible to? Their customers? Shareholders? Employees? We would argue that it's none of the above. Fundamentally, businesses are responsible to their resource base. Without a healthy environment there are no shareholders, no employees, no customers and no business.
Yvon Chouinard
#90. To succeed in business you need to be original, but you also need to understand what your customers want.
Richard Branson
#91. The company that writes your paycheck every two weeks is not your employer; they are your customer. Adopt this mind-set and everything changes. You are free from the daily grind - free to grow your business and serve your customers, your fellow man.
Daniel Lapin
#92. In a very real sense, there are only two roles in organisations: customers and suppliers. Everybody functions simultaneously in both roles, whether inside or outside the organisation the essence of good business, therefore, is the quality of the relationship between customer and supplier.
Stephen Covey
#93. The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary.
Sam Walton
#94. The most successful businesses have leaders that see the correlation between customer service and sales ... not as separate departments, but as complimentary components for growth.
Steve Maraboli
#95. An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.
Charles Caleb Colton
#96. What are you doing to serve your customers a little more every day?
John Di Lemme
#97. At the end of the day, businesses should exist to provide profits for their team to share as a result of solving problems for their customers.
Clay Clark
#98. a great publicity is a high way to remote customers and a universal key to the gate of ignorance
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#99. Digital analytics is the analysis of qualitative and quantitative data from your business and the competition to drive a continual improvement of the online experience that your customers and potential customers have which translates to your desired outcomes (both online and offline).
Anonymous
#100. Our customers want to give us more business and the key for us is to manage growing volumes properly.
James Young
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