Customers Quotes
Because of the disruption phenomenon - technological progress outstripping the ability of customers to utilize it - the general tendency is for the money to migrate toward the subsystems.
This is one of the innovator’s dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake.
The customer is always right! John Wanamaker must be turning in his grave. If you're a customer today, you're an intruder.
Enterprises have customers! Ask them for feedback and you can compete with startups!
I made a penny for each paper delivered every day, plus 2 cents for Sunday papers. I had 120 customers. For a 10-year-old kid in the 1940s, that was a lot of money.
Word-of-mouth marketing is a crucial component of organic growth for startups and one of the primary ways that Weebly has grown to over 15 million customers.
The principle was right there - you couldn't miss it. The more we did for our customers, the more they did for us.
Make every decision—even decisions about whether to expand the business, raise money, or promote someone—according to what's best for your customers.
Entrepreneurs are always taking feedback, especially from their customers, bankers, workers, and sales force. Without straightforward feedback, entrepreneurs cannot make sound decisions.
You're the key barrier to your organization's innovation, because you are serious and you believe you know what your customers want.
Only your customers can define quality, because it's meeting your customers' expectations the first time every time. Simply put, it's performance to the standards of the customer.
Apple is a wonderful company for its customers and investors. So, too, Pixar. (NeXT, not so much...) But Apple is also an engine of misery for its subcontracted Chinese workers.
Customers don't care how much time something takes to build. They care only if it serves their needs.
A head start is rarely large enough to matter, and time spent in stealth mode-away from customers-is unlikely to provide a head start. The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.
By the time that product is ready to be distributed widely, it will already have established customers.
At IMVU, the cost of customer acquisition through our five-dollar-a-day AdWords campaign was less than twenty-five cents. Our revenue from those same customers was more than a dollar.
Listening to other companies' customers is the best way to gain market share, while listening to the visionaries is the best way to create new markets.
Making loans accessible to millions of the previously unbankable customers is a noble goal. Getting them hooked to such loans isn't.
If you look historically, what creates growth and wealth is innovation and investment, and increase in scale - more customers.
Publicly, they claim to be thrilled to have the opportunity to engage directly with their customers; privately, they suspect, maybe even fervently hope, that Facebook and its spawn are fads.
Don't think you have to be the disrupter to win. A fast-following disruptee will do very well if you can bring your existing customers and ecosystem along with you.
We have to broaden our appeal to more customers than simply high-end customers. We have to understand that, in the aggregate, there are fewer customers out there, so we have to appeal to them all.
I've only ever met one woman who actually was a prostitute of her own free will. She didn't have a pimp. She could pick and choose her customers. That's so rare.
How many restaurants do we know across the world that customers visit once and once only?
If you think customers are impatient in New York, wait to you see how impatient they are here in L.A.
By getting your customers to agree with you in small steps along the way, you have a better chance of reaching agreement when it's time to do business.
The important thing right now is that the economy still needs customers. We still need people to go out there and spend money.
You have to treat your employees like your customers. When you treat them right they will treat your outside customers right.
The outlook of the world today is for the greatest era of commercial expansion in history. The rest of the world will become better customers.
The Starbucks customer and the Teavana customer are two very different customers, two different need states that are highly complimentary.
Six Sigma is a quality program that, when all is said and done, improves your customers' experience, lowers your costs, and builds better leaders.
Our customers want to give us more business and the key for us is to manage growing volumes properly.
JPMorgan is a very good franchise. And the way you should look at a franchise, a business, is from the standpoint of the customers.
Our investment bank looks like it does because its customers like our expansive network and want to do equity, debt, M&A, custody, move money, deposit money, et cetera.
Another thing he told his customers was that one of the great accounting unknowns of the modern age was how to value knowledge. It was an exciting field.
By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population density was too thin to support major backlist retailers.
It's a growing trend. Viewers are our customers, but so are advertisers. And advertisers want different ways to reach our viewers.
