Customer Quotes · Page 151

Entrepreneurship requires an unvanquished spirit of curiosity, an openness to learning, a letting go of OldCo so you're free to create NewCo.

— Michael Gerber

Companies that only focus on expense reduction are all but dead as they will find themselves sooner or later unable to reduce…

— Grant Cardone

Brands must be authentic because there are very few veils left between a business and the public.

— Kendra Scott

“How do you set the right price for the right customer at the right time in the right channel?”

— Bill Cross

Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values.

— Deepak Chopra

Entrepreneurs are not that special. If you are one, stop drinking the Kool Aid, and if you aren't, definitely don't drink it.

— Andy Dunn

“original content to provide educational and salient advice to consumers, helping them with their purchasing decisions.”

— Paul Roetzer

I believe that management should focus on two particular areas. One is Gemba (shop floor) and the other is customer (not the…

— Masaaki Imai

My experience is that short sellers do far better analysis than long buyers because they have to. The market is biased upward…

— Seth Klarman

“Of course, the problems of external default, domestic default, and inflation are all integrally related. A government that chooses to default on…

— Carmen M. Reinhart

One of the things all entrepreneurs struggle with is where their efforts will have the highest impact. Unfortunately, too many of us…

— Lewis Schiff

I call it the Rule of Three. If you read a company's financial statements three times, and you still can't figure out…

— James Chanos

If you can predict where the market's going, just do what you can predict. If you can't, which is the presumption of…

— Kenneth Fisher

I think the notion...that liquidity is this - of tradable common stock - is a great contributor to capitalism - I think…

— Charlie Munger

A single agency responsible for systemic risk would be accountable in a way that no regulator was in the run-up to the…

— Henry Paulson

With a profession such as investing, people see the 'doing' as the buying and selling. It is difficult to come home from…

— Dave Abrams

It's time to pull the bandage off America's foreclosure problem. The economy is ready to emerge from its recent dark period, but…

— Mark Zandi

“Thirty thousand new consumer products hit store shelves each year. Ninety percent of them fail. Why? We’re using misguided market-segmentation practices. For…

— Harvard Business School Press

Obviously, consideration of costs is key, including opportunity costs. Of course capital isn't free. It's easy to figure out your cost of…

— Charlie Munger

There is no such thing as agflation. Rising commodity prices, or increases in any prices, do not cause inflation. Inflation is what…

— Peter Schiff

What we know about the destination resort business is clearly established. But it's all about one thing, and one thing only. All…

— Steve Wynn

When you say "bank," a bank is a building, a set of computers and chairs and things. The bankers are the people…

— Michael Hudson

Resolution Trust Company was set up to liquidate a bunch of assets that the government had inherited because the savings and loans…

— Howard Warren Buffett

If bankers can push the loans and make more profits for the bank, they get paid higher bonuses. They often also get…

— Michael Hudson

Take care of your clients because they're the one's that put you into business and they're also the one's that can put…

— Sonya Parker

The theory of marketing is solid but the practice of marketing leaves much to be desired.

— Philip Kotler

Obviously, I haven't succeeded in defusing the political concerns about the Fed.

— Ben Bernanke

It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.

— John Maynard Keynes

“It’s the nature of the beast to believe in bubbles and think you can just entrepreneur your way out.” She”

— Cory Doctorow

“Marketing is the name we use to describe the promise a company makes, the story it tells, the authentic way it delivers…

— Seth Godin

I think every business is definitely different. There are certain businesses where execution is everything.

— Cameron Winklevoss

Sometimes you're wrong, but if I'm a repeat customer, it means I must have valued the past experiences.

— Willem Dafoe

“Growth firms get more of their value from investments that they expect to make in the future and less from investments already…

— Aswath Damodaran

“Imagine you were able to help customers justify the ROI for your product. That would be pretty powerful, wouldn’t it? Yep.”

— Steven Gary Blank

Markets really matter. Because the bigger the market, the more targets there are for the missile to hit.

— Josh Kopelman

Big companies are almost always far too slow to actually kill a small competitor.

— Omar Hamoui

Investments are like trains, and if you miss one, don’t worry because another one will come down the line.

— Gerry Schwartz

Timing the market is a fools game, whereas time in the market is your greatest natural advantage.

— Nick Murray

Technology - the Internet, mobile and analytics - is being used to do anything and everything a customer doesn't want to.

— Doug McMillon

Bulls make money and bears make money, but pigs seldom do. When a stock or mutual fund is up 30%, sell one-quarter…

— Nancy Dunnan