Customer Quotes

“The Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs”

— Anonymous

The customer is always right.

— Harry Gordon Selfridge

Character is the salesperson

— George Madison Adams

Your customers get better when you do.

— Bill Gates

Inflation is repudiation.

— Calvin Coolidge

Customers always want something new

— Steve Jobs

It takes courage to be an entrepreneur.

— Adam Neumann

Good marketers measure.

— Seth Godin

Listen to the customer's complaint and act fast.

— Richard Branson

“Be available right where your customers need it.”

— Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Products Hardly Ever Dictate Shopper Traffic—Open Space Does”

— Herb Sorensen

I did not criticize the Central Bank's position.

— Vladimir Putin

A product is often a consumer's only window to a corporation.

— Saul Bass

The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.

— Zig Ziglar

There is no such thing as a value trap. There are investing mistakes.

— Mohnish Pabrai

“the customer only pays for exactly what she or he feels is really needed.”

— James P. Womack

All of marketing consists in creating relationships. Real relationships: friends, lovers, partners, warriors, fans.

— John Kremer

The beauty of periodic rebalancing is that it forces you to base your investing decisions on a simple, objective standard.

— Benjamin Graham

Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.

— Peter Drucker

It's better to have no cofounder than to have a bad cofounder, but it's still bad to be a solo founder.

— Sam Altman

The single most important advice I can give anybody is: Learn from your mistakes. That is the only way to become a…

— David Ryan

Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one; a global idea, not a strictly American one.

— Reid Hoffman

Self-Checkout Line – The place where customers of an establishment become unpaid employees of the establishment.

— Richard Turner

Buzzwords and cliches - those are stock in trade. There's nothing wrong with them.

— Michael Nesmith

“Presence elasticity is higher for new products because manufacturers will be spending fortunes to encourage trial, and the interest and satisfaction that…

— Greg Thain

The entire political class and ruling Wall Street class are zero-percent-interest zombies who talk about 'deflation' in the value of their second,…

— Max Keiser

So far, Indian companies have focused more on customer application. This needs to shift to packaged software for sectors such as banking…

— Sanjay Kumar

Hidden behind the facade of pompous jargon and noble affections, there is more sheer larceny per square foot on the floor of…

— Richard Ney

“Companies are confusing emotion-driven marketing campaigns which still focus on the products and services, with authentic missions which inspire people with a…

— Simon Robinson

“There are a lot of dead carcasses on the road, and the vultures are out sniffing. This is the cycle of Wall…

— Andy Kessler

It is always easiest to run with the herd; at times, it can take a deep reservoir of courage and conviction to…

— Seth Klarman

“There is no question that the losing IPOs far outnumber the winners. Of the 8,606 firms examined, the returns on 6,796 of…

— Jeremy J. Siegel

I started my career as a sales guy in the nineties, when the funnel was controlled by the sales rep, who had…

— Brian Halligan

“As you'll soon see, coming up with winning products is never easy. We need a product that our customers love, yet also…

— Marty Cagan

“Remember too that business entrepreneurs can be iconoclasts, hermits, and even cranks. Steve Jobs, founder of Apple, reportedly wasn’t Mr. Warm-and-Fuzzy in…

— Pamela Price

“It took just over 15 years to recover the money invested at the 1929 peak, following a crash far worse than Smith…

— Jeremy J. Siegel

“When people tell you that this venerable firm or private investor invested X millions of dollars in that entity and that it…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

“If you’re subjected to enough great salesmen and salespitches and marketing concepts for long enough—like from your earliest Saturday-morning cartoons, let’s say—it…

— David Foster Wallace

[W]e think the very term 'value investing' is redundant. What is 'investing' if it is not the act of seeking value at…

— Warren Buffett

You must have the discipline and temperament to resist your impulses. Human beings have precisely the wrong instincts when it comes to…

— Irving Kahn