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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 ChouinardThe Customer isn't always right. Sometimes the customer is an a**hole. That's the first rule of retail.
Kelly LinkThe most important single thing is to focus obsessively on the customer. Our goal is to be earth's most customer-centric company.
Jeff BezosA manufacturer is not through with his customer when a sale is completed. He has then only started with his customer.
Henry FordWe are superior to the competition because we hire employees who work in an environment of belonging and purpose. We foster a climate where the employee can deliver what the customer wants. You cannot deliver what the customer wants by controlling the employee.
Horst SchulzeMost customer service people are great. It's that one customer service person from hell that drives me crazy!
Jon JonesWhen you lose a customer, it can be tempting to tell each other, "That customer's not very sharp. They just made the wrong decision".
Bill GatesThe customer is always right! John Wanamaker must be turning in his grave. If you're a customer today, you're an intruder.
Cleveland AmoryA customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.
Mahatma GandhiIt is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
Henry FordThe great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - and him for nothing.
Robert CollierWe 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 GitomerQuality and service are important, if you want to make a sale. If you want to keep a customer for life, keep your promises.
HeidiConsistent alignment of capabilities and internal processes with the customer value proposition is the core of any strategy execution.
Robert S. KaplanI have to be really careful, because I have nothing but love for this entity known as "the customer" in entertainment. I would never, ever, ever put myself above them and say, "They don't get it, but it's funny, believe me." If they're not laughing, I'm doing my job wrong.
Dan HarmonAuctomatic was a compressed start-up experience, going from start to launch to acquisition in under a year. We spent a long time building the product before getting our first customer, whereas with Stripe we made sure we had paying customers from the very start.
John CollisonIf 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 KrocI 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.
Stella McCartneyFor in some ways the world was like a shopping centre, and he himself was a doubtful customer, often ineffectual, being talked into buying things he didn't want, things indeed which nobody in their right mind would want to buy.
Margaret MahyI'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 MartinIn fact, I believe the first companies that make an effort to develop an authentic, transparent, and meaningful social contract with their fans and customers will turn out to be the ones that are the most successful in the future. While brands that refuse to make the effort will lose stature and customer loyalty.
Simon MainwaringAn institution which is financed by a budget - or which enjoys a monopoly which the customer cannot escape - is rewarded for what it deserves rather than what it earns. It is paid for 'good intentions' and 'programs'. It is paid for not alienating important constituents rather than satisfying any one group. It is misdirected by the way it is being paid into defining performance and results as what will produce the budget rather than as what will produce contribution.
Peter DruckerIn the world of Internet Customer Service, it's important to remember your competitor is only one mouse click away.
Douglas A. Warner IIIEven 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 McCueSometimes you're wrong, but if I'm a repeat customer, it means I must have valued the past experiences.
Willem DafoeIf you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper. When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare in the general welfare. Then jealousies between man and man, city and city, province and province, nation and nation, will no longer trouble the world.
Frederic BastiatAny small business owner wears many hats. We [New View Window Cleaning] are the salesman, bookkeeper, scheduler, cleaner, customer complaint department, etc. If you aren't organized and willing to do all these things (at least in the beginning) you are better off working for someone.
Tony EvansThe #1 guideline to success is you must be in business for yourself. When you work for someone else, you sell your time at wholesale to your employer, who then re-sells it at retail to the customer.
J. Paul GettyYour business will look totally different from your customer's viewpoint, so jump the counter and start to see things from their perspective.
Feargal QuinnThe two critical questions to ask are: "Who is my customer?" and "What value am I adding?" Unfortunately, many workers cannot answer these questions. They tend to blindly do things, and develop bad habits of doing things over and over for no good reasons.
Bill CapodagliThe city is not changing anything, ... increases in the cost of natural gas will be passed through to the customer.
Ruth GrahamI am not pushy. You want it, you buy it. Most people hit the customer over the head. But if you're too self-important, it's kind of repellent.
Judith LeiberAnything a customer can do for themselves is where service stops and relevance begins.
Jim BlasingameThank 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 LarsSince I begrudgingly started my Instagram account and my social media exposure/connection. I say begrudgingly because I just didn't want to take the plunge, but when I realized it was just a direct connection to our customer and these women, I did it. I like listening to their stories and their feedback.
Eva MendesAll we are doing is looking at the time line, from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect the cash. And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value adding wastes.
Taiichi OhnoIntrapreneurs consider them-selves on a mission to help society, to give it what it needs and wants, to truly serve others and improve themselves. Like all producers, they believe in a deep accountability, refuse to assign blame, don't believe in failure, and give their heart and sould to truly serve the customer and benefit society.
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