Customer Quotes · Page 137

Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time; they're always experimenting and adapting based on what they learn.

— Thomas Friedman

If stocks are attractive and you don't buy, you don't just look like an idiot, you are an idiot.

— Jeremy Grantham

“On the day I took office, the annual inflation rate in Israel had reached a horrific 400 percent.”

— Shimon Peres

“Understand this: If you pay attention to the client, he will pay attention to your product.”

— Alin Sav

Volatility may be rising simply because investors must digest more information every day.

— Alex Berenson

I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.

— Bill Ackman

Having a start-up is all about being able to see what works and change your idea.

— Justin Kan

Thank you for calling customer service. If you're calm and rational, press 1. If you're a whiner, press 2. If you're a…

— Randy Glasbergen

The onus should be on the banks and their compliance officers to ensure the analysts are kept separate from investment banking and…

— Mark Getty

I make no effort to predict the course of general business or the stock market. Period. However, currently there are practices snowballing…

— Warren Buffett

The best way in my view is to just buy a low-cost index fund and keep buying it regularly over time, because…

— Warren Buffett

Indeed, Britain was set to repeat the old, familiar cycle of boom and bust. Since then, we have created and rigorously adhered…

— Gordon Brown

“The manufacturers’ old branding tools are now insufficient to win the battle of the value chain. In order to develop new, more…

— Greg Thain

I'm glad I don't have a lot of money in the market. And quite frankly, you'd be better off giving your money…

— Dennis Miller

“We can choose how we present ourselves to the world—and we should. From a sales perspective, who would you rather work with?…

— Susan C. Young

Understanding the true causes of the Depression, as well as the real economic record of the United States in the 1930s, is…

— Thomas Woods

Invest in low-turnover, passively managed index funds... and stay away from profit-driven investment management organizations... The mutual fund industry is a colossal…

— David F. Swensen

Valuations are always much-debated. I try to center on what is the value to us. Is it solving a problems for us?…

— Peggy Johnson

If we assume that there are normal or standard income results to be obtained from investing money in securities, then the role…

— Benjamin Graham

“The ECB in June became the first of the world’s main central banks to push a key policy rate below zero. But…

— Anonymous

You must fully understand, strongly believe in, and be totally committed to your trading philosophy. In order to achieve that mental state,…

— Richard Driehaus

My view is that everything begins with the customer. If you know the customer, then you can match the merchandise and then…

— Les Wexner

“Make sure to pay attention to actionable vs. wishy-washy words your customers use. If they say, “I keep meaning to,” then they…

— Product School

“shoppers were choosing on the basis of price alone – the brands were completely substitutable. To escape this death spiral, P&G decided…

— Greg Thain

Businesses should focus on solving problems, putting the customer first, delivering value - not gimmicks - and growing in a sustainable manner.

— Neil Blumenthal

“In short, a customer feedback program should be viewed not as “market research” but as an operating management tool.”

— Harvard Business School Press

“A product can be differentiated from the competition by creative advertising and promotion, even if competing products are physically identical.”

— Steven Silbiger

Wall Street is not being made a scapegoat for this crisis: they really did this.

— Michael Lewis

There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media.

— Rush Limbaugh

In America, everybody thinks they're an entrepreneur. That's the problem. It's not a title that anybody should call oneself.

— Alan Sugar

Always consider investing in a grade-A man with a grade-B idea. Never invest in a grade-B man with a grade-A idea.

— Georges Doriot

One of the rules I've learned is that struggling to try and think your way into making an investment is usually the…

— Stephen A. Schwarzman

There are many wrong reasons to want to be an entrepreneur. I think there's only one good reason: to change the world.

— Phil Libin

The goal of what Japan's central bank is doing is to create growth. If it actually creates growth, in the long run,…

— Jamie Dimon

Look: invest in what you understand, what's foreseeably going to offer real value and returns, not necessarily what's trendy.

— Donald Trump, Jr

Spare me the mantra that the “fundamentals” are sound. Credit is the ultimate fundamental.

— Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

I view derivatives as time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system.

— Warren Buffett

If drink sales are falling off, we get the pilots to engineer a bit of turbulence. That usually spikes sales.

— Michael O'Leary

A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation.

— Ross Perot

“Just remember, you could be that nasty customer one day. How would you like to be treated.”

— Cinder Rella