Customer Quotes

To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her special quality, her irreplaceability, and reduce her unique amiability to a commodity. Money takes away her name, while transforming her lover into a nameless customer of a market of appetites.

You want to make sure this particular car is going to please the customer and then you're going to be rewarded with something that is going to please the shareholder.

I talked about 12 to 18 months, and that's about reaffirming our foundation for sustained growth: getting the discipline back, getting the basics right, getting the customer focus back... so by the end of next year, I hope most of that's in place.

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

But nothing is better than the market, where the customer and the business deal directly with each other, because if you rip people off, word gets out. That business eventually loses its customers, and the good ones that serve people well get the business. You get government in there, and it's just more money for the lawyers who write the bills.

As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.

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.

Our customer base is not necessarily a leader, an early adopter.

Let's hold insurance companies accountable the right way by making them put their whole customer base on the line.

For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting there: I've found my customer, my silhouette, my cut.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

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.

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

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.

Even if someone is already in your market space, ask yourself whether you can approach it from a different angle and thereby secure your own customer base.

I am a fashion designer. I'm not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I'm a mother and a wife, and number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer.

I've been a customer of the top venture capital firms, so I know exactly what they do and don't do.

At the end of the day, I want to create collections that, although I am inspired by very creative women, I want my customer to walk away with a silhouette that she doesn't even know what collection it comes from. That it just lasts in her wardrobe and makes her feel strong and confident and hopefully happy.

I don't like to dictate the style to the customer, I believe people give something their own trend.

Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff.

Companies are starting to measure how effective their customer service is and trying to understand what they can do to improve the customer service process.

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.

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.

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.

So if you're a customer today, the same person who came in to demonstrate the technology for you and helped you architect the solution before you bought it is likely going to be leading the team to help you do the implementation.

Our multiaccess approach will make the life of the customer simpler.

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.

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.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

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.