Customer Quotes · Page 146

There are downsides to implicitly trusting banks, as the 2008 financial crisis showed.

— Balaji Srinivasan

We don't want our customer to be advertising our name: we believe that the customer today is aware and wants to choose.…

— Maurizio Gucci

Certain product lines are more suited to be manufactured in proximity with the customer, while others are more suitable to be manufactured…

— Azim Premji

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

— Robert Orben

“Product distinctions, the historic centerpiece of product marketing, exist only briefly—and in the prospects’ minds, often not at all.”

— Harry Beckwith

“our environment is much stronger than our intellect. Remarkably few investors—either amateur or professional—truly understand this critical point.”

— Guy Spier

The world of marketing has changed. You can lead the change or be a victim of change.

— Denise Morrison

Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.

— Barack Obama

If you really want to make a difference for the customer, so what you have got to do is to make sure…

— Ian McLeod

I would suggest that you only take advice from those people who have a lot of experience and who you trust as…

— Caroline Wozniacki

Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial…

— Ben Bernanke

If you look at the history of our company, we don't do a lot of acquisition. The reason is, we need to…

— Bobby Kotick

One of the best rules anybody can learn about investing is to do nothing, absolutely nothing, unless there is something to do...…

— Jim Rogers

A lot of my customers wouldnt go to a McDonalds but we are all after the same thing in this business: pleasing…

— Rick Stein

Through our effective campaign-management strategies, we're seizing opportunities to capture additional insights on customer behaviors, allowing us to reach and communicate with…

— Mindy Grossman

At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call, skim it…

— James Buchan

Some of the best trades come when everyone gets very panicky. The crowd can often act very stupidly in the markets. You…

— Linda Bradford Raschke

Though business conditions may change, corporations and securities may change, and financial institutions and regulations may change, human nature remains the same.…

— Benjamin Graham

“Exhaustive analysis of the findings indicated principles to improve in-store visibility. Based on these, Guinness created a prototype fixture and installed it…

— Herb Sorensen

I was an advocate of the deregulation movement and I made - along with a lot of other smart people - a…

— Bill O'Reilly

Over the long term, it's hard for a stock to earn a much better return that the business which underlies it earns.…

— Charlie Munger

Given the central role of effective, firmwide risk management in maintaining strong financial institutions, it is clear that supervisors must redouble their…

— Ben Bernanke

If the practice persists of covering government deficits with the issue of notes, then the day will come without fail, sooner or…

— Ludwig von Mises

“Selling is hard to teach because it is about what exists in your head and what goes on in your whole life.…

— Philip Delves Broughton

Disinvestments will continue to happen. If the issue is priced correctly, there's no reason why it should not sell.

— Arundhati Bhattacharya

People have little idea, by and large, of the investment world. They are convinced they have an advantage.

— Daniel Kahneman

The way the system now works, credit is extended to those who don't need it and denied to those who are in…

— Louis O. Kelso

Let's not kid ourselves, companies and corporations only do things if they believe it'll be in their best financial interest.

— Julio Torres

Most startup companies have two people, and they figure out creative ways to swarm problems. They move faster and have more impact.

— Scott D. Anthony

“Mindspace and shelfspace are crucial sources of sustainable advantage, not least because they take so long to build.”

— Greg Thain

Often, companies are trying to chase growth and get into other categories or go international too quickly, and they can get in…

— Neil Blumenthal

The global crisis is caused by pathologies inherent in the global financial system itself.

— George Soros

We're improving and taking our levels of customer satisfaction higher and higher…Our customers are happier than they were before.

— Ralph de la Vega

Entrepreneurship is the ability to create and build from a vision practically anything; fundamentally it is a human, creative act.

— Jeffry A Timmons

Over time, low rates can put pressure on the business models of financial institutions.

— Jerome Powell

The term bubble should indicate a price that no reasonable future outcome can justify.

— Cliff Asness

A key function of a publishing brand is the bestowal of status by who and what you pay attention to.

— Tim O'Reilly

This market right now is moving on nothing more than emotions. Guess what? It almost always moves on emotions.

— David Bach

Wrigley is a great business, but that doesn't solve the problem. Buying great businesses at advantageous prices is very tough.

— Charlie Munger

We are very committed to listening to our customers' feedback and making changes to deliver happiness to our users.

— Eric Yuan