Customer Quotes · Page 111

Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.

— Daniel Drew

“If you want to know how a company treats its employees, watch how its employees treat customers.”

— Anonymous

“Rule No. 5: No Business Plan Survives First Contact with Customers So Use a Business Model Canvas”

— Steven Gary Blank

Investing isn't about beating others at their game. It's about controlling yourself at your own game.

— Benjamin Graham

“what are you seeing? people selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their product”

— Max Brooks

From time to time, an excessively strong dollar may have negative short-term implications on the economy.

— Steve Mnuchin

If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing bsuiness at all.

— Leo Burnett

In a market where funding is hard to come by, if you're scaled already, then you are in a brilliant position because…

— Naveen Tewari

The average credit score of today's FHA borrowers is higher than the average American household with a score. As it becomes more…

— Mark Zandi

An investor will succeed by coupling good business judgment with an ability to insulate his thoughts and behavior from the super-contagious emotions…

— Warren Buffett

Mere inflation-that is, the mere issuance of more money, with the consequence of higher wages and prices-may look like the creation of…

— Henry Hazlitt

The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you…

— Mark Skousen

I have said many times that it's a mistake to bet against the long-term health of the U.S. equity markets because it's…

— Gerry Schwartz

“The statement of retained earnings acts as a bridge between the income statement and the balance sheet. It takes information from the…

— Mike Piper

Citadel is a global technology leader, recognized for its work to level the playing field for investors and make markets more fair,…

— B. Kevin Turner

Ever since the Great Depression, economists have known that demand shortages tend to persist in the wake of severe financial crises like…

— Bob Frank

“There are many advantages to a customer-centric approach, but here’s the big one: customers are always beautifully, wonderfully dissatisfied, even when they…

— Malini Chaudhri

“Falling consumer prices is what enriches people (deflation of asset prices can ruin them, but that is because they are using asset…

— Matt Ridley

Entrepreneurs are all a little crazy. There is a fine line between an entrepreneur and a crazy person. Crazy people see and…

— Anita Roddick

“By early 2005 all the big Wall Street investment banks were deep into the subprime game. Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs,…

— Michael Lewis

We [US government] have used our taxpayer dollars not only to subsidize these banks but also to subsidize the creditors of those…

— Elizabeth Warren

I buy stocks when they are battered. I am strict with my discipline. I always buy stocks with low price-earnings ratios, low…

— David Dreman

That goes back to 1932, although it was really implemented in '33 under Jesse Jones, and it invested in mostly banks initially…

— Warren Buffett

“Unlike old-fashioned Britain, where Tony Blair recruited Lord Levy to encourage his 'Friends of Israel' to donate their money to a party…

— Gilad Atzmon

“The Customer Development model consists of four well-defined steps: Customer Discovery, Customer Validation, Customer Creation, and Company Building.”

— Steven Gary Blank

The media often glamorizes successful founders and makes their paths seem easier than they actually were.

— Jessica Livingston

Your first job, as an owner and an entrepreneur, has to be to understand how the business is going to actually work.

— Michael Gerber

The trick of successful investors is to sell when they want to, not when they have to.

— Seth Klarman

Society can't wait. It's sad there are so many entrepreneurs, business successes and venture capitalists who give no thought to society.

— Les Wexner

You should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don't know what the future is going to hold.

— Ray Dalio

Choose to deliver amazing service to your customers. You'll stand out because they don't get it anywhere else.

— Kevin Stirtz

The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.

— George Soros

“Some of the most important things to look for when checking underneath a fund’s hood are its fees.”

— Suze Orman

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I…

— Anonymous

I can never predict what the markets will do. Sometimes it does the exact opposite of what I would have expected.

— Mitt Romney

Once you're an entrepreneur you're always an entrepreneur, and you need that fix.

— Marc Randolph

Many entrepreneurs do not realize that many of the problems their businesses face today began yesterday, long before there was a business.

— Robert Kiyosaki

You've got to do the research. You've got to understand the market place, know your competitors.

— Peter Jones

I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself…

— Carly Fiorina

The customer is always right! John Wanamaker must be turning in his grave. If you're a customer today, you're an intruder.

— Cleveland Amory