Customer Quotes · Page 172

“Building positive customer experiences will help create passionate customers who will spread your message on their behalf - almost like an evangelist.”

— Simon Zingerman

There are exceptions of course, but most companies start with a great idea - not a pivot.

— Sam Altman

Investors must keep in mind that there's a difference between a good company and a good stock. After all, you can buy…

— Richard Thaler

Starting a company is a cause, not a job. Once it becomes a job, that's when you lose

— Ben Parr

“You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology, not the other way around. —STEVE JOBS”

— Darlene Price

All of this talk of recession offends me. I am delighted that bankers have less money.

— Chris O'Dowd

Monetary policy transmission encompasses the whole continuum of interest rates; of course, the central bank only determines the overnight policy rate.

— Urjit Patel

Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.

— Jack Welch

“In sales, you don’t have to be good to earn a living. There are many average sales people who earn a decent…

— Eric Lofholm

Your brand image is primarily an emotional construct. Emotion is probably always more powerful in swaying people than reason, but people like…

— Drayton Bird

You want to make sure this particular car is going to please the customer and then you're going to be rewarded with…

— Carlos Ghosn

In the start-up setting and in most companies, the output is action-oriented. You need to be getting things done and making decisions,…

— Andrew Yang

Small businesses have suffered under the demands of Obamacare and community banks have scaled back lending due to stringent provisions of Dodd-Frank…

— Anthony Scaramucci

I am convinced that companies should put staff first, customers second and shareholders third - ultimately that's in the best interest of…

— Richard Branson

I'd stay away from investments in a variety of sectors that are capital intensive. Anyone who says we need $100 million before…

— Steve Jurvetson

The majority of unskilled investors stubbornly hold onto their losses when the losses are small and reasonable. They could get out cheaply,…

— William O'Neil

I think there are some groups of stocks that are highly vulnerable because they're in cuckoo land in terms of valuations,

— Marc Faber

Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected…

— Felix Dennis

The big exchanges that hold customer deposits are a big target for hackers, and unfortunately, most bitcoin exchanges store user funds.

— Erik Voorhees

If fees consume more than 1% of your assets annually, you should probably shop for another adviser.

— Benjamin Graham

It's important for you to understand that stock and bonds go up-and they go down. You need to be comfortable with that…

— Michael LeBoeuf

Too many start up business fail simply because their owners continue to think and act like employees.

— Michael LeBoeuf

“Pull in simplest terms means that no one upstream should produce a good or service until the customer downstream asks for it,…

— James P. Womack

There is only one way to go: up. I like to find cheap assets with problems. It gives me power.

— Mikhail Prokhorov

There is no question that the recovery from the global recession triggered by the 2008 financial crisis has been unusually lengthy and anemic.

— Michael Spence

“your number-one job is to tell your story to the consumer wherever they are, and preferably at the moment they are deciding…

— Gary Vaynerchuk

If you knew what was going to happen in the economy, you still wouldn't necessarily know what was going to happen in…

— Warren Buffett

The more successful you and your organization become, the more humble and devoted to your customers you need to be.

— Anonymous

I have always said that a bank's lending rates do not only depend on rate cuts - it is just one signal.

— Chanda Kochhar

Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks. If you don't have a job and you are not rich, blame yourself!

— Herman Cain

“Only salespeople that dedicate blocks of time on their calendar for prospecting activity consistently succeed at acquiring new business.”

— Mike Weinberg

If you aren't building a social enterprise, I don't know what your business model will be in 5 years

— Angela Ahrendts

“In today’s entrepreneurial time, a brand with a human side has more chances of becoming successful than its counterparts.”

— Pooja Agnihotri

Entrepreneurs start businesses because ... they have no choice. Passion and energy drive them on good days and sustain them on bad days

— Barry Moltz

If you can remember that stocks aren't pieces of paper that gyrate all the time --they are fractional interests in businesses --…

— Seth Klarman

A prediction about the direction of the stock market tells you nothing about where stocks are headed, but a whole lot about…

— Warren Buffett

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

We are essentially outsiders and that is the best definition of an entrepreneur I have ever come across.

— Anita Roddick

The massive reduction in risk that is inherent in the development of the modern corporation has been far from fully appreciated.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“First make your business itself a brand and then every product you create will be accepted as a brand.”

— Amit Kalantri