Top 100 Quotes About Customers
#1. Anyone wanting a new house picks one from among those built on speculation or still in process of construction. The builder no longer works for his customers but for the market.
Karl Marx
#2. By selling directly to customers, real women, the brand is able to avoid significant retail mark-ups that typically exist in high end fashion.
Sarah Lafleur
#3. We recognized early on that media consumption was evolving and customers were looking for moving images to include as part of their advertising campaigns, website designs and corporate presentations.
Jon Oringer
#4. Everyone is in the business of customer satisfaction.Wh o are your customers and how are they doing?
Brian Tracy
#5. Loyal employees in any company create loyal customers, who in turn create happy shareholders.
Richard Branson
#6. The cost of acquiring new customers and maintaining those relationships in an online environment versus bricks and mortar is significant.
Stephen Cohen
#7. By creating conversation, we let our customers spread our message by word of mouth.
Anita Roddick
#8. Listening to other companies' customers is the best way to gain market share, while listening to the visionaries is the best way to create new markets.
Esther Dyson
#9. I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.
Steve Jobs
#10. The goal is not to impress customers with knowledge. The goal is to leave customers feeling special and to enrich their lives.
Carmine Gallo
#11. Charging everyone the same thing and treating everyone the same way, as retailers do today, is 'Six Sigma' thinking which is great for producing widgets on a production line, but it makes no sense in a world where customers are inherently different.
Peter Fader
#12. We offer love to our customers. And in return, we receive the finest smiles. And even if we cannot return their affection, at least we can offer a rose.
Bisco Hatori
#13. We have been ruled by men who live by illusions ... the illusion that there is some other way of creating wealth than hard work and satisfying your customers.
Margaret Thatcher
#14. I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me.
John Shelton Reed
#15. It's hard to overestimate how much the perception of the quality of the V.C. firm you're with matters - the signal it sends to other V.C.s, to potential employees, to customers, to the tech press. It's like where you went to college.
Stewart Butterfield
#16. Do not be shy to call customers who owe you money. It works.
Felix Dennis
#17. Like Disneyland, luxury retailers have long had to figure out how to overcome customers' natural inertia. Unlike less pricey stores, they tend not to attract idle browsers who make impulse purchases.
Virginia Postrel
#19. Whether you sell hamburgers or computers, we're all in the customer service business. Our goal must be to exceed our customers' expectations every day.
Dave Thomas
#20. Well, developers do want to touch a lot of customers. We have to make our platform very popular in order for them to do that. If we make their jobs easier, then they'll be more likely to stay on the Windows platform.
Jim Allchin
#21. Apple and Google will compete like crazy for our data because once they have it we'll be their customers forever.
Robert X. Cringely
#22. While there have been many potential scenarios discussed, today we have only confirmed that we designed Xbox One to enable our customers to trade in and resell games at retail.
Larry Hryb
#23. The waiters carried themselves with a quiet joy, as if their entire mission in life was to make their customers feel comfortable and well tended.
Julia Child
#24. Up the stairs I found an imposing headquarters, decorated with the portraits and busts of solemn, whiskered old darlings who, no doubt, bled their customers with leeches and passed on the information to alarmed small boys that self-abuse leads to blindness.
John Mortimer
#25. The moral is that it is necssary to innovate, to predict the needs of the customers, and give him more. He that innovates and is lucky will take the market.
W. Edwards Deming
#26. website optimization, which is the art and science of enhancing the user experience of a website with the goal of converting users into customers. To see why this is important, you need to become
Richard Stokes
#27. In the commercial real estate business, brokers spearhead major accounts. But they wouldn't have customers without the people who oversee construction.
Roger Staubach
#28. A business that is not in love with its customers, but only the money they bring, should not expect love back.
J. N. HALM
#29. This is one of the innovator's dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake.
Clayton Christensen
#30. Employees who report receiving recognition and praise within the last seven days show increased productivity, get higher scores from customers, and have better safety records. They're just more engaged at work.
Tom Rath
#31. Get out, Dragos said. The dragon was in his voice.
Except for the Light Fae male, all the customers rushed for the door.
Thea Harrison
#32. 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
#33. Our customers want to give us more business and the key for us is to manage growing volumes properly.
James Young
#34. Paid product endorsements, especially by real or purported experts, constitute a steady rainfall of deception. They betray contempt for the intelligence of their customers. They introduce an insidious corruption of popular attitudes about scientific objectivity.
Carl Sagan
#35. The Mesh is reshaping how we go to market, who we partner with and how we invite participation and engage new customers ... If you embrace the Mesh youll discover how your business can inspire customers in a world where access trumps ownership.
Lisa Gansky
#36. Apple is a wonderful company for its customers and investors. So, too, Pixar. (NeXT, not so much ... ) But Apple is also an engine of misery for its subcontracted Chinese workers.
Eric Alterman
#37. A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
Ed Miliband
#38. I don't think we treat people very well in the media, both as customers - and I call them customers - of newspapers and magazines, or TV news, and we don't understand that the greatest story that we could tell, each and every day, is the story of the people around us.
Mike Barnicle
#39. On winter mornings when it's dark and the air is crisp, the lights are still shining and the first customers are gathered at the counter like conspirators. They give you the illusion that the day will be a new adventure. And that illusion stats with you for at least some of the morning.
Patrick Modiano
#40. The costs of poor quality are tangible; they will cost you customers and money, and ultimately affect the success of your business.
Subir Chowdhury
#41. Ask your loyal customers for positive comments about your products and your service. Then post these testimonials where other customers and prospects can enjoy them.
Ron Kaufman
#42. My big success is to see my guests happy when they like my food. My place is not a restaurant. It's my house. The people are not customers. They are my guests, my friends.
Julie King
#43. Most entrepreneurs don't need as many customers as they think. A lot of people think 10 is too few for a sample. But if all 10 refused a product, why is that not enough? If you want 100, 1,000 or a million customers, you first have to get 10.
Eric Ries
#44. When you know who your customers are, that can give you an edge on the competition.
Alain Bouchard
#45. In The Science of Getting Rich, W. D. Wattles wrote that we must always give more in service to our customers and to those around us than we are getting in return.
Earl Nightingale
#46. But this doesn't mean that there is incompatibility between regulation and rapid innovation: it is more of a disconnect, since both sides are there to serve customers' needs and it is those customers, both corporate and consumer, who will make the choice. These
Susanne Chishti
#47. Far too many managers have lost sight of the basics, in our opinion: quick action, service to customers, practical innovation, and the fact that you can't get any of these without virtually everyone's commitment.
Tom Peters
#48. Word-of-mouth marketing is a crucial component of organic growth for startups and one of the primary ways that Weebly has grown to over 15 million customers.
David Rusenko
#49. Your customers are responsible for your company's reason for existing.
Marilyn Suttle
#50. If you don't talk to your customers, how will you know how to talk to your customers?
Will Evans
#51. If you want to measure social media ROI, stop wasting your time doing software demos and attending webinars. Just figure out what you want to track, where you can track it, think about both current customers and new customers, and go do it.
Jay Baer
#52. No one can guarantee you a job other than satisfied customers. That's the only thing that works. Nothing creates work other than products and services you provide that create satisfied customers.
Jack Welch
#54. Customers tend to avoid a restaurant that's going aswamp in its own sludge.
Ray Kroc
#55. The outlook of the world today is for the greatest era of commercial expansion in history. The rest of the world will become better customers.
Herbert Hoover
#56. There are customers we serve, and customers we service.
-Captain Andreyasn
Howard Tayler
#57. Pricing is actually a pretty simple and straight forward thing. Customers will not pay literally a penny more than the true value of the product.
Ron Johnson
#58. I think Salesforce, going public very early on before they were profitable, it made a lot of sense for them because it got customers comfortable that these guys were going to have capital and be transparent about their business.
Dave Goldberg
#59. The customer reaction to Dell going private has been a lot more positive than I would have ever imagined. Customers see it as - 'You don't have to be distracted. Now you can totally focus on your business.' So they see it as a positive.
Michael Dell
#60. We are driven by providing technology to enterprise customers.
Jack Dangermond
#61. There are differences in the businesses themselves, but the fundamentals are the same: give customers a good experience, charge them a reasonable price, listen to them, and treat them with respect.
Ronnie Apteker
#62. There is a lot of corruption all over the world and not only when it comes to illegal wildlife trade! There are a few ways to ensure this stops: If there are no customers, there will be no trade.
Jane Goodall
#63. Companies should always want to delight their customers.
Guy Kawasaki
#64. I have always felt that public, commercial and community organisations should be as open as possible about their affairs. They need to be accountable to their owners, their customers, their members and communities and other interest groups.
Laisenia Qarase
#65. Companies can add value and simultaneously promote themselves if their product or service truly improves the lives of their customers. I mean really improve lives, not wishful thinking, rationalization. That's the acid test.
Guy Kawasaki
#66. Success and profitability are outcomes of focusing on customers and employees, not objectives.
Jack Ma
#67. Experience it forward. What employees experience, Customers will. The best marketing is happy, engaged employees. Your Customers will never be any happier than your employees.
John Dijulius
#68. The key distinction between a traditional and a customer-cultivating company is that one is organized to push products and brands whereas the other is designed to serve customers and customer segments.
Harvard Business School Press
#69. I believe that conventional marketing techniques are increasingly ineffective. Customers are hyped out. They have been overmarketed. They are becoming more cynical about the whole advertising and marketing process.
Anita Roddick
#70. Customers are the reason we open our doors every day, and keep the machines humming all night long. Customers determine what we eat, where we live, whether we stay in business.
Harvey MacKay
#71. No matter the job or position you have, you have the power to create positive or negative experiences for your customers. Where do you lean?
TJ Hoisington
#72. Customers don't distinguish between you and the company you work for. To the customer's way of thinking, you are the company.
Ron Zemke
#73. Try to focus on customers flow and business potential the business you are investing in might or might not have, because that is basically the only way you will be certain that you have made a smart decision.
Mike Jellick
#74. No matter what your job is, the key is your context, your beliefs about your responsibility to customers and the relationships you intend to enjoy or endure with them.
Susan Scott
#75. There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users'.
Edward Tufte
#76. If you want to make a substantial reduction in your carbon footprint, doing it on your own is virtually impossible, especially if you're driving a car. Here are tools available in the marketplace, enabling our customers to have this conversation.
Tom Arnold
#77. The ad industry thinks their clients are their customers. They think the companies who pay for the production are the ones they are supposed to serve. So the ads they produce make their clients happy ... but infuriate the rest of us.
Simon Sinek
#78. 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.
Tony Hsieh
#79. Most of the Peacekeepers turn a blind eye to the few of us who hunt because they're as hungry as we are for fresh meat as anyone. In fact, they're among our best customers.
Suzanne Collins
#80. Forget about yourncompetitors, just focus on your customers.
Jack Ma
#81. You keep customers by delivering on your promises, fulfilling your commitments and continually investing in the quality of your relationships.
Brian Tracy
#82. I don't think anyone has done a [tablet] product that I see customers wanting.
Steve Ballmer
#83. If we don't understand our tools, then there is a danger we will become the tool of our tools. We think of ourselves as Google's customers, but really we're its products.
Rebecca Goldstein
#84. You business exist because your customers allow you to exist. Never forget it.
Timi Nadela
#85. We try to find better solutions - our customers have given us a lot of trust.
Phil Schiller
#86. 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.
Jim Barksdale
#87. The invention of mummification. This was believed to be the key to a happy afterlife; certainly there were no disgruntled customers coming back to say otherwise.
Leonard Mlodinow
#88. All companies have customers. Lucky companies have fans. But the most fortunate companies have audiences.
Jason Fried
#89. Choose your customers. Fire the ones that hurt your ability to deliver the right story to the others.
Seth
#90. Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!
Walter Isaacson
#91. 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.
James Cash Penney
#92. When you incorporate giving into your business in an authentic and transparent way, your customers become your best marketers.
Blake Mycoskie
#93. If Edison was worried about his candle customers, he would have never invented the light bulb.
Nathan Fielder
#94. The only perceptions that matter are those of your customers. Yet companies often design their marketing, advertising, and sales messages from a purely managerial perspective.
Jaynie L. Smith
#95. I'm not targeting government. I'm not saying hey, I'm closing it because I don't want to give you any data. I'm saying that to protect out customers, we have to encrypt. And a side affect of that is, I don't have the data.
Tim Cook
#96. If you're open with people and provide context for the decisions that your making, customers will stick with you.
Andrew Mason
#97. We have innovative differentiated technology that is recognized by our customers and third party analysts as the best in the industry; we have industry-leading support with a very large satisfied installed base due to our best-in-class support and development organisations.
N. Robert Hammer
#98. The first category comprised those for whom books were the only breath of fresh air in their claustrophobic daily lives. His favorite customers. They
Nina George
#99. What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.
Vivienne Westwood
#100. Traditional marketing is not focused on creating new categories. Traditional marketing is focused on creating new customers. Traditional marketing involves finding out what consumers want and then giving them what they want, better and cheaper than the competition.
Al Ries