Customer Quotes · Page 155

I can never predict what the markets will do. Sometimes it does the exact opposite of what I would have expected.

— Mitt Romney

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I…

— Anonymous

The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.

— George Soros

“Some of the most important things to look for when checking underneath a fund’s hood are its fees.”

— Suze Orman

Choose to deliver amazing service to your customers. You'll stand out because they don't get it anywhere else.

— Kevin Stirtz

“Always remember, Brand exists in the consumers mind, so the brand is owned by the user.”

— Abraham Varghese

Marketing is the set of human activities directed at facilitating and consummating exchanges.

— Philip Kotler

True cultural connection is the Holy Grail for brands if they want to create an enduring emotional relationship with people.

— Albert Chmielowski

Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was…

— Martin Feldstein

“short-term interest rates above long-term rates (which was called “inverting the yield curve”). Every time that happened, inflation-hedged assets and the economy…

— Ray Dalio

Again, your challenge is not just to improve. It is to break the service paradigm in your industry or market so that…

— Jack Welch

“I would like to express how I regard salespeople in general. I consider they embody a unified and diverse aggregate of the…

— Michael Delaware

Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute…

— Robert Kiyosaki

“In good years, defensive investors have to be content with the knowledge that their gains, although perhaps less than maximal, were achieved…

— Howard Marks

People are putting their money into treasuries because they worry that the risk of putting their money into the bond market, the…

— Michael Hudson

The more evident it is that a certain company is going to become the market leader in a big market space, then…

— Audrey MacLean

“If the manufacturer can convince the retailer that delisting will hurt consumer satisfaction and possibly lead to store switching, then that will…

— Greg Thain

Finding a single investment that will return 20% per year for 40 years tends to happen only in dreamland. In the real…

— Charlie Munger

we have complaints that institutional dominance of the stock market has put 'the small investor at a disadvantage because he can't compete…

— Benjamin Graham

“DISTRIBUTION. Where is it sold to the ultimate consumer? What middlemen are involved? SALES. Who is selling it for you and how…

— Anonymous

“The aim is to find socially and legally acceptable ways of allowing price-sensitive shoppers to pay less, while leaving the less-price-sensitive customers…

— Greg Thain

One of the dangers about net-net investing is that if you buy a net-net that begins to lose money your net-net goes…

— Peter Cundill

I believe a great company, whether improving a sector or creating a new one, needs to have an excellent product or service…

— Richard Branson

“To get an early market started requires an entrepreneurial company with a breakthrough technology product that enables a new and compelling application,…

— Geoffrey A. Moore

“When leaders reframe customers into guests, and results into experiences, profits escalate.”

— Eric Schiffer

As a salesperson, you will be judged by your ability to keep a stalled conversation moving along briskly.

— Harvey Mackay

I really believe that you cannot use the stock market as a proxy for the economy.

— Howard Schultz

We're not competitor obsessed, we're customer obsessed. We start with the customer and we work backwards.

— Jeff Bezos

A brand is a living entity-and it is enriched or undermined cumulatively over time, the product of a thousand small gestures.

— Michael Eisner

The Internet is the number one reason people buy PCs, and the number one use of PCs is on the Internet from…

— Ted Waitt

“Promise people with the hope of not letting any fracture misalign you from fulfilling those promises. That gives you a recommendable brand.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

If you're open with people and provide context for the decisions that your making, customers will stick with you.

— Andrew Mason

The truth is that entrepreneurship is more like a roller coaster ride than a cruise.

— Vivek Wadhwa

We expanded the brand to include a whole line of apparel and accessories, but we quickly learned that it was not good…

— Kathy Ireland

Good brands do three things for highly stressed out consumers: 1. They save time. 2. They project the right message. 3. They provide an identity.

— David F. D'Alessandro

Uncertainty is seen to retard investment independently of considerations of risk or expected return.

— Ben Bernanke

I wanted all my stores to be the same, to offer the same customer experience, whether I was there or not.

— Jimmy John Liautaud

There is an idea, broadly held on Wall Street, that names with X's are more memorable and tend to capture the attention…

— Clive Chajet

The inflation comes through either increasing the money supply or increasing the government spending, and that's what happened under Biden.

— Scott Bessent

Normally, the market peaks before bad news emerges. That's what happened in 1929, and that's what happened in 2000.

— Kenneth Fisher