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We grow by letting the customer tell us. So when the customer tells us that they're frustrated, that they just got their catalogue and we're already out of a product they wanted, then it tells me that we're not making enough. We let the customer tell us instead of creating an artificial demand for our products. Any time you're making products that people don't need, you're at the mercy of the economy, you're at the mercy of whatever is going on. So we tried to avoid that situation.
Yvon ChouinardEvery time a customer calls or you call a customer, you have an opportunity and a choice. What choice are you making?
Jeffrey GitomerIf you own the problem, you own the customer. If you lose the problem, you lose the customer. It's that simple.
Jeffrey GitomerA manufacturer is not through with his customer when a sale is completed. He has then only started with his customer.
Henry FordMost customer service people are great. It's that one customer service person from hell that drives me crazy!
Jon JonesThe successful producer of an article sells it for more than it cost him to make, and that's his profit. But the customer buys it only because it is worth more to him than he pays for it, and that's his profit. No one can long make a profit producing anything unless the customer makes a profit using it.
Samuel B. PettengillSo, always start with a product, always start with a customer, always start with a service and how this product or service will dramatically improve the quality of the life or the work of the customer.
Brian TracyThe customer is always right! John Wanamaker must be turning in his grave. If you're a customer today, you're an intruder.
Cleveland AmoryA friend who used to be my customer told me one day: "I promise I am going to help you to be relocated." He's a realtor and after he bought two buildings in the business district in Boston, he said: "Are you ready for your next place?" I could not believe it.
Julie KingAn underpaid man is a customer reduced in purchasing power. He cannot buy. Business depression is caused by weakened purchasing power. Purchasing power is weakened by uncertainty or insufficiency of income. The cure of business depression is through purchasing power, and the source of purchasing power is wages.
Henry FordThroughout our history, Microsoft has won by making big, bold bets. I believe that now is not the time to scale back the scope of our ambition or the scale of our investment. While our opportunities are greater than ever, we also face new competitors, faster-moving markets and new customer demands.
Steve BallmerA customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.
Mahatma GandhiConsistent alignment of capabilities and internal processes with the customer value proposition is the core of any strategy execution.
Robert S. KaplanIn an organization of any significant size, the executives cannot create the future single-handedly. They must develop the enterprise in a constellation of teams within the overall team if they hope to bring the special talents and resources to bear on the challenge of creating superior customer value and sustaining a competitive advantage in the eyes of its customers.
Karl AlbrechtI don't like to dictate the style to the customer, I believe people give something their own trend.
L'Wren ScottListen to your customers. Can the sales pitches and the product babble. Let your customer talk and show him that you are listening by making the appropriate responses, such as suggesting how to solve the problem.
Susan WardYou always get that one customer that decides that your name is boy. Or something. It certainly reinforces a respect I already had for people that are in the hospitality industry.
Ryan ReynoldsIโm 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 GrahamReally good customer service will deliver sales. You are training salesmen to give the best possible advice and then to achieve the sale. People actually like you to ask for a sale because it shows you value their business.
John CaudwellAny seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.
John WanamakerTomorrow when you come to work, if it doesn't make the customer happy, move the business forward, and save us money - don't do it.
Reed HastingsIn just 200 tweets we can assess and identify 52 different personality traits of a customer. We ran an analysis over 500,000 people and we really nailed this. Think of providing this powerful insight to a retailer. We can see what they value, not just what they are buying. We have found a 40-45% increase in sales when you recommend upsales based on values instead of past buying behavior.
Sandy CarterYou know, if you make a customer unhappy they won't tell five friends, they'll tell 5,000 friends. So, we are at a point now where we have all of the things we need to build an important and lasting company, and if we don't, it will be shame on us.
Jeff BezosMost DRM solutions diminish the value of the product by either directly restricting a customer's use or by creating uncertainty.
Gabe NewellLike the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the individual voter.
Erich FrommMy 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 BlakelyOur DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply.
Steve JobsEmployees are given the chance to help shape their company by participating in a company-wide communications program making suggestions on waste reduction, environmental improvement, customer satisfaction, quality improvement, and safety issues.
Stephen CoveyApproach each customer with the idea of helping him or her solve a problem or achieve a goal, not of selling a product or service.
Brian TracyThere 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 WaltonSo if you want a culture where people work hard, & pay attention to detail, focus on the customer, are frugal: you have to do it yourself.
Sam AltmanEveryone is in the business of customer satisfaction.Wh o are your customers and how are they doing?
Brian TracyThe strong and undeniable fundamentals of low-cost clean energy and the cheapest petrochemical feed-stocks in the world will prevail we believe and we're seeing the demand pool beginning to grow. We have continued to position ourselves in a way that will catch this very sustainable and fundamentally supported wave of volume growth and at the same time, help our customer base achieve their lofty goals of growth as well.
Alan ArmstrongWe 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.
Tony HsiehYou are allowed to do this - don't worry about the rules, don't worry about getting into trouble, your job is to take care of the customer. Your job is to make the person leave happy.
John E. Pepper, Jr.