Customer Quotes · Page 131

“Most people employed in sales positions today have never truly had to “hunt” for new accounts or new business.”

— Mike Weinberg

“It’s worth emphasising this: the benefits of diversification are greater when average returns are measured with geometric means.18”

— Robert Carver

Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.

— Peter Lynch

Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.

— Alan Greenspan

I'm beginning to wonder about my broker. Yesterday I told him to buy a hundred shares of A.T.&T. He said, 'Would you…

— Robert Orben

The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.

— Benjamin Graham

Successful entrepreneurs are pretty methodical about the problem they're trying to solve.

— Neil Blumenthal

Consequently, a young business often grows by large percentages. Mature businesses rarely do.

— Roy H. Williams

Indeed, the FHA was born out of the Great Depression, which was also caused in significant part by a foreclosure crisis. Mortgages…

— Mark Zandi

You could not buy a house in those days without just assuming that the house was not only a place to live,…

— Paul A. Volcker

Giving government aid to a bank basically transforms it into a utility. The huge salaries in this sector are only a symptom…

— George Soros

In the panic of 1819, the protectionists stressed the lack of consumer markets abroad and the necessity for building up a market…

— Murray Rothbard

Fundamentals that you read about are typically useless as the market has already discounted the price, and I call them “funny-mentals”. However,…

— Ed Seykota

In nine companies out of ten the factor of fluctuation has been a more dominant and important consideration in the matter of…

— Benjamin Graham

“Balance sheet accounts are never closed and their balances are carried forward from year to year, but you need to be sure…

— Lita Epstein

Stocks actually can be a very good hedge against inflation, and short of hyperinflation, stocks will have the ability to increase their…

— Porter Stansberry

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

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

— Ben Bernanke

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

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

— Bill O'Reilly

One nation banking recognises that banks must not be isolated from the rest of the economy. Because banks and small businesses must…

— Ed Miliband

“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

“15 traits common for the people who do really well in start-up 1. Deal with ambiguity 2. Can work without handholding 3.…

— Sandeep Aggarwal

Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning…

— Alan Greenspan

Nothing turns off an investor more than when an entrepreneur comes in with a ridiculous valuation.

— Kevin Harrington

The key to trading success is emotional discipline. If intelligence were the key, there would be a lot more people making money…

— Victor Sperandeo

“Hedge funds have made massive leveraged credit bets, knowing that their upside is billions in fees and their downside is millions in…

— Janet M. Tavakoli

When you start a company, it's a singular focus. You have the wind at your back.

— Howard Schultz

We have awesome, passionate customer success and social media teams, but when I see a customer who needs help or is unhappy,…

— Eric Yuan

Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.

— Anita Roddick

If you have a business model that relies on customers being misinformed, you better start working on changing your business model.

— Jeff Bezos

Entrepreneurship is usually about people executing in the face of other folks telling them that it's not going to work.

— Dave McClure

The natural state of a start-up is to die; most start-ups require multiple miracles in their early days to escape this fate.

— Sam Altman

“An entrepreneur is someone who empowers & pushes people to attain their highest capabilities.”

— Apoorve Dubey

The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so

— Aleister Crowley

Powerful brands in the future will instead carefully choose who'd they'd love to be friends with - and who they'd be comfortable…

— Martin Lindstrom

The market is moving so fast, there is nothing set into the wall. You need to be very, very flexible.

— Marco Bizzarri

My experience is that very few people have what it takes to be a successful investor, as I discussed in The Arrogance…

— Whitney Tilson

A futures contract is a derivative, but the futures exchange doesn't call them 'derivatives,' they call them 'futures.'

— Myron Scholes

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he…

— Charles Dickens