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Look, I think that when we started Virgin Atlantic 30 years ago, we had one 747 competing with the airlines that had an average of 300 planes each. Every single one of those have gone bankrupt because they didn't have customer service. They had might, but they didn't have customer service, so customer service is everything in the end.
Richard BransonLoyal customers, or customers who recommend their friends, give me the most pride. I think that is the biggest compliment I can get. I think in the restaurant business, it takes patience from the customer to spark up a relationship with the restaurateur, but it takes also work from the restaurateur to spark up a relationship with his customer.
Daniel BouludBiggest question: Isn't it really 'customer helping' rather than customer service? And wouldn't you deliver better service if you thought of it that way?
Jeffrey GitomerYou don't need a big close, as many sales reps believe. You risk losing your customer when you save all the good stuff for the end. Keep the customer actively involved throughout your presentation, and watch your results improve.
Harvey MackayIf your users have many questions, it's a failure of your primary site design. It becomes not so much customer support, as much as customer complaints.
Jakob NielsenOnly institutions that go about the old-fashioned business of taking in deposits from customer A and lending them out to customer B should be called banks. The rest should call themselves what they are. 'Parlors' would be appropriate, or 'dens' - words more suitable to venerable betting pursuits.
Graydon CarterLure him out. Send in a 'customer' with a message from me needing to meet him. I'm not the kind of person he can ignore-well, that he used to not-never mind. Once he's out, we can get him to a place we choose." I nodded. "I can do that." "No," said Dimitri. "You can't." "Why not?" I asked, wondering if he thought it was too dangerous for me. "Because they'll know you're a dhampir the instant they see you. They'll probably smell it first. No Strigoi would have a dhampir working for him-only humans." There was an uncomfortable silence in the car. "No!" said Sydney. "I am not doing that!
Richelle MeadThe Winter Kate-House of Harlow 1960 customer is a multi-tasker, therefore itโs important that they are able to put together an outfit with ease and elegance. Pieces that are easy to mix within their own wardrobe. Easy dressing while maintaining a well put together look.
Nicole RichieThe intellectual's hostility to the businessman presents no mystery, as the two have, by function, wholly different standards. While the businessman's motto is the customer is always right, the intellectual's task is to preserve his perceived standards against the weight of popular opinion.
Bertrand de JouvenelQuality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it.
Peter DruckerBecause 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.
Robert GlaserEvery businessman enjoying customer patronage, whether he be a baker, banker, or barber is conferring a public benefit, raising production, and reducing unemployment; businessmen earn their livelihood by producing products and rendering services where ever they are needed.
Hans F. SennholzI don't like to dictate the style to the customer, I believe people give something their own trend.
L'Wren ScottKeep the customer actively involved throughout your presentation, and watch your results improve.
Harvey MackayVirtually every company will be going out and empowering their workers with a certain set of tools, and the big difference in how much value is received from that will be how much the company steps back and really thinks through their business processes, thinking through how their business can change, how their project management, their customer feedback, their planning cycles can be quite different than they ever were before.
Bill Gatesdealing with a counter clerk at the phone company who had all the customer service skills of a homicidal sociopath on work release.
Jasmine CresswellHonesty was a tough customer... Once you started allowing yourself some honesty, it couldn't easily be contained or limited to one part of your life. It was like poison ivy or a bossy houseguest. Once it was there, you couldn't tell it what to do. You had to really fight to keep it from taking over.
Ann BrasharesIf anything goes wrong, the customer doesn't care whose fault it is. He's the one who's going to suffer anyway.
Jan CarlzonI'm trying to think of other ones. Oh, yeah, I'd say - somebody would buy something and we'd say, and because you are our hundredth customer today, you get a free paperback.
Steve MartinToo many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper.
Kazuo InamoriIf thereโs one reason we have done better than of our peers in the Internet space over the last six years, it is because we have focused like a laser on customer experience.
Jeff BezosThe game of business used to be like football: size mattered. Then it changed to basketball: speed and agility. Today, business is more like chess. Customer priorities change continually, and the signals given by these changes are vital clues to the next cycle of growth.
Adrian SlywotzkyIt's very logical: There is proven ROI in doing whatever you can to turn your customers into advocates for your brand or business. The way to create advocates is to offer superior customer service.
Gary VaynerchukThere 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.
Sam WaltonSometimes you're wrong, but if I'm a repeat customer, it means I must have valued the past experiences.
Willem DafoeWe innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.
Jeff BezosA great brand is a promise, a compact with a customer about quality, reliability, innovation, and even community. And while the concept of brand is intangible, brand equity is far from it.
Stephen B. ShepardWith businesses, you go to the same places because you like the service, you like the people and they take care of you. They greet you with a smile. That's how people want to be treated, with respect. That's what I tell my employees - customer service is very important.
Magic JohnsonWe need to reengineer companies to focus on figuring out who the customer is, what's the market and what kind of product you should build.
Eric RiesClear content, simple navigation and answers to customer questions have the biggest impact on business value. Advanced technology matters much less.
Jakob NielsenI feel constantly the tension of the quarterly cycles, the drive to produce shareowner value at the cost sometimes of customer value and employee value. [But] if you take equal care of the employees, they will take equal care of the customers and then we will get an equal or better opportunity for our shareowners.
Marilyn C. NelsonYou can get an awful lot of effects into the customer's mind for a great deal less time and money in radio than you can in television.
Harry ShearerHighly engaged employees make the customer experience. Disengaged employees break it.
Timothy R. ClarkIn 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the cost of a customer running a basic Internet application was approximately $150,000 a month.
Marc AndreessenMy experience of coming out was very much centered around the bar scene. And what happened for me is that when I turned 18 and was old enough to get into certain gay bars in the French Quarter, I became a regular customer.
Christopher RiceEverything you need to know about a customer has been written by them or about them. And it lives on the Internet. All you have to do is uncover it. And use it.
Jeffrey GitomerTreat [the customer] as guests when they come and when they go, whether or not they buy. Give them all that can be given fairly, on the principle that โto him that giveth shall be givenโ. Remember always that the recollection of quality remains long after the price is forgotten. Then your business will prosper by a natural process.
Harry Gordon SelfridgeTrain your staff (if you have any) to be always helpful, courteous, and knowledgeable. Most importantly, give every member of your staff enough information and power to make those small customer-pleasing decisions, so he never has to say, "I don't know, but so-and-so will be back at..."
Susan WardThank god now for social media and just e-commerce. Now designers have a direct pipeline to their customer and access to her like they never had before, like they never could before. Clothes can happen now that never would have had a chance in the traditional chain of command of the way things worked.
Byron Lars