Customer Quotes · Page 170

We have a highly specialized customer and want to give her the best experience somewhere she can trust.

— Mindy Grossman

What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget…

— Warren Buffett

You want to be the last company in a category. Those are the ones that are really valuable.

— Peter Thiel

Great companies are defined by their discipline and their understanding of who they are and who they are not.

— Howard Schultz

The degree of monetary policy ease should be associated with the level of real interest rates, not nominal interest rates.

— Athanasios Orphanides

Investing requires qualities of temperament way more than it requires qualities of intellect.

— Warren Buffett

You have to find a small market in which you can get a monopoly and then quickly expand.

— Sam Altman

We believe we can train any intelligent, quick thinking person to be a trader. We feel traders are made, not born.

— Jeff Yass

I am concerned about any attrition in customer traffic at Starbucks, but I don't want to use the economy, commodity prices or…

— Howard Schultz

Entrepreneurs are like cats, because they are independent and do their own thing. Although organisations say they like cats, what they really…

— Max McKeown

“Relative to manufacturers, retailers have huge fixed costs and miniscule margins: this makes their profits more susceptible to small changes in volume…

— Greg Thain

Being an entrepreneur isn’t just a job title, and it isn’t just about starting a company. It’s a state of mind. It’s…

— Tory Burch

You take something like RingCentral. It doesn't need any more money or financing: it is relatively mature, recurring revenue business - not…

— Vinod Khosla

Permission marketing turns strangers into friends and friends into loyal customers. It's not just about entertainment - it's about education. Permission marketing…

— Seth Godin

You've got to choose your horse ahead of time. So, if you're interested in water technology, energy technology, you get to choose…

— Peter Diamandis

“Many small businesses are doomed from day one, not from competition or the economy, but from the ignorance of their owners .…

— William Manchee

“The successful individual sales producer wins by being as selfish as possible with her time. The more often the salesperson stays away…

— Mike Weinberg

Brand-name growth stocks ordinarily command the highest p/e ratios. Rising prices beget attention, and vice versa - but only to a point.…

— John Neff

Superior sales and distribution by itself can create a monopoly, even with no product differentiation. The converse is not true. No matter…

— Peter Thiel

“Competition is fierce; survival is at stake. The need to produce today is today’s reality and represents the demands of capital, but…

— Stephen R. Covey

With customers' permission, fintech firms have increasingly turned to data aggregators to 'screen scrape' information from financial accounts. In such cases, data…

— Jerome Powell

“Have the “willingness to pay” talk with customers early in the product development process. If you don't do it early, you won't…

— Madhavan Ramanujam

People want to buy cheap and sell dear; this by itself makes them countertrend. But the notion of cheapness or dearness must…

— William Eckhardt

“In the 1980s, Woolworths in the United Kingdom had major cost and thus selling price disadvantages compared to the ‘selling’ retailers who…

— Greg Thain

As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.

— Natalie Massenet

Great companies don't just have one founding moment. They have many founding moments.

— Jack Dorsey

Printing money creates inflation, which weakens an economy. Unfortunately, this kind of common-sense thinking never seems to penetrate academic circles.

— Peter Schiff

My advice to most people is don't short stocks. It's a very, very difficult business. And you can really get clobbered.

— Whitney Tilson

The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.

— Ben Bernanke

Revolve your world around the customer and more customers will revolve around you.

— Heather Williams

Until you understand your customers - deeply and genuinely - you cannot truly serve them.

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.

— George Soros

Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one customer at a time and take care of each one…

— Gary Comer

“These loyal customers cost us less to maintain. They produce high margins and we make more money from them.”

— James Dion

Everywhere you look, there's a hunger to put the ethos by which Wall Street thrives on trial.

— Tina Brown

Beta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me.

— Charlie Munger

In my experience, entrepreneurship tends to be kind of cumulative, like a layer cake. Taking some time away can make it hard…

— Andrew Yang

There's a company behind every stock and a reason companies - and their stocks - perform the way they do.

— Peter Lynch

You've got to do the research. You've got to understand the market place, know your competitors.

— Peter Jones

Many entrepreneurs do not realize that many of the problems their businesses face today began yesterday, long before there was a business.

— Robert Kiyosaki