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Every time a customer calls or you call a customer, you have an opportunity and a choice. What choice are you making?
Jeffrey GitomerBiggest 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 GitomerThe customer is always right' may have become a standard motto in the world of business, but the idea that 'the audience is always right,' has yet to make much of an impression on the world of presentation, even though for the duration of the presentation at least, the audience is the speaker's only customer.
Max AtkinsonResearch is an organized method of trying to find out what you are going to do after you cannot do what you are doing now. It may also be said to be the method of keeping a customer reasonably dissatisfied with what he has. That means constant improvement and change so that the customer will be stimulated to desire the new product enough to buy it to replace the one he has.
Charles KetteringMarketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make. It is the art of creating genuine customer value.
Philip KotlerDon't try to be all things to all people. Concentrate on selling something unique that you know there is a need for, offer competitive pricing and good customer service.
Lillian VernonIt is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
Henry FordIn the marketplace, small businesses are the face and voice of humanity, which provides them with a great advantage in the Age of the Customer.
Jim BlasingameBest way to succeed is to do things for the customer, not to the competition. Very few people buy a product in order to help you hurt the competition. To think otherwise is lunacy.
Guy KawasakiWe did start with a simple manifesto, as we called it, which was a description of what we were about, and it was the Un-carrier. It was about finding and solving customer pain points in an attempt to fix a stupid, broken, arrogant industry. It was something we felt passionate about. It was our goal to make changes and have the industry make the same ones.
John J. LegereThe more a prospective customer clicks on you and your stuff, the easier it is for them to make a buying decision in your favor.
Jeffrey GitomerI don't like to dictate the style to the customer, I believe people give something their own trend.
L'Wren ScottThe federal government said today they've begun training sessions for airport security workers to provide what they call more customer satisfaction to the travels, they want to make it easier for us. They're instructing security guards to glance at your luggage tags so that they can call you by your first name. Isn't that creepy? The guy touching your wife, calling her by her first name.
Jay LenoRemember that, in the end, the customer doesn't know, or care, if you are small or large as an organization - she or he only focuses on the garment hanging on the rail in the store.
Giorgio ArmaniIโm a Verizon customer. I donโt mind Verizon turning over records to the government if the government is going to make sure that they try to match up a known terrorist phone with somebody in the United States. I donโt think youโre talking to the terrorists. I know youโre not. I know Iโm not. So we donโt have anything to worry about.
Lindsey GrahamPeople need to understand: Businesses are going to make mistakes. They shouldn't be shot and hung every time. We should apologize for it. We should make up for it. My shareholders paid for it. No customer was hurt, which is critical to me. But I hurt my shareholders, and I wish I hadn't.
Jamie DimonOnce you create a loyal customer base, it's tough for a competitor to take that away.
Joseph D MansuetoIf 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.
Ray KrocIf anything goes wrong, the customer doesn't care whose fault it is. He's the one who's going to suffer anyway.
Jan CarlzonI believe that all brands will become storytellers, editors and publishers, all stores will become magazines, and all media companies will become stores. There will be too many of all of them. The strongest ones, the ones who offer the best customer experience, will survive.
Natalie MassenetEven when I ran my bar I followed the same policy. A lot of customers came to the bar. If one in ten enjoyed the place and said he'd come again, that was enough. If one out of ten was a repeat customer, then the business would survive. To put it another way, it didn't matter if nine out of ten didn't like my bar. This realization lifted a weight off my shoulders. Still, I had to make sure that the one person who did like the place.
Haruki MurakamiI have a feeling-as compelling as a religious conviction-that if industry will constantly pass on to the worker and the customer all the savings of labor-saving machinery and invention, rather than siphon them off into the pools of watered securities, it will by that process keep distribution and production in balance and go as far toward Utopia as our poor human natures will go or be driven.
Samuel B. PettengillIf you get into a customer service fight with a hooker, even if you're in the right, you're in the wrong.
Chelsea HandlerThe single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that there are no results inside its walls. The result of a business is a satisfied customer.
Peter DruckerStatistics 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.
Zig ZiglarMy advice for an entrepreneur just starting out is to differentiate yourself. Why are you different? Whatโs important about you? Why does the customer need you?
Sara BlakelyMost ads are about the product or the company that makes it...the best ads are about the customer and how the product will change his life.
Roy H. WilliamsThe next time you face a customer who has every right to be upset, say something like this: 'I don't blame you for feeling as you do. If I were you, I'd feel exactly the same way. What would you like for me to do?' These are magical, healing words, and you'll be surprised at how reasonable people become when they believe you are on their side.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.The web is the ultimate customer-empowering environment. He or she who clicks the mouse gets to decide everything. It is so easy to go elsewhere; all the competitors in the world are but a mouseclick away.
Jakob NielsenBecause its purpose is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two - and only these two โ basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are 'costs'.
Peter DruckerIt doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is - what matters is its relative 'share of customer value' in the final product or solution, and its cost of producing that value.
Gary HamelEven in the face of massive competition, don't think about the competition. Literally don't think about them. Every time you're in a meeting and you're tempted to talk about a competitor, replace that thought with one about user feedback or surveys. Just think about the customer.
Mike McCueBetter service for the customer is for the good of the public, and this is the true purpose of enterprise.
Konosuke Matsushita