Customer Quotes · Page 172

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

— Howard Schultz

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

— Harvey Mackay

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

— Eric Schiffer

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

— Albert Chmielowski

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

— Philip Kotler

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

— Abraham Varghese

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

— Kathy Ireland

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

— Vivek Wadhwa

If the public understands the central bank's views on the economy and monetary policy, then households and businesses will take those views…

— Jerome Powell

In my view, product/market fit is the most important thing to get right as a startup entrepreneur. There's a variety of ways…

— Scott Cook

If your credit is going to grow at 10-15 percent per year in order to get your 5 percent GDP growth per…

— Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

When you're thinking about your next product or current product and wondering how to make it different so you don't have competition,…

— Clayton Christensen

“no matter what asset class one held, there would come a time when it would lose most of its value. This included…

— Ray Dalio

Not offering this kind of guarantee means that they do not believe in their product enough, and they do not care about…

— Matthew Lesko

I learned very early in my investing careers: I better not invest in what I want. I better invest in what's happening…

— Jim Rogers

Great product trumps all. You can have the biggest marketing budget, the biggest show, a perfect merchandising plan, but at the end…

— Nick Wooster

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

— Andrew Mason

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

— Israelmore Ayivor

It would be helpful if someone would lay out exactly the economic mechanism that gets us from yet lower interest rates to…

— Jerry A. Webman

We think if the economy remains weak that we could see mortgage rates trail down and we think that we could see…

— Franklin Raines

If you provide enough value, then you earn the right to promote your company in order to recruit new customers. The key…

— Guy Kawasaki

Almost every customer that I talk to is talking about how they're using APIs, and what a step function they are for…

— Diane Greene

An entrepreneur isn't someone who owns a business, it's someone who makes things happen.

— Tim Ferriss

Breaking the rules and challenging convention is in the DNA of every successful entrepreneur.

— Richard Branson

The most dangerous thing for an entrepreneur to do is to actually go into a business that he does not understand fully.

— Aliko Dangote

Now that rates are moving up, we're seeing more aggressive offerings from banks.

— Robert Hughes

“Your brand is what your customers and potential customers think about you; your culture is who you say you are and how…

— Amber Hurdle

“Setting the early equity split in stone, without allowing for changes, is one of the biggest mistakes founders can make.”

— Noam Wasserman

I think most entrepreneurs would refer to themselves as "accidental". No one looks for stress and pain. You stumble on to it.

— Ronnie Apteker

One way to sell a consumer something in the future is simply to get his or her permission in advance.

— Seth Godin

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

— Warren Buffett

Buying involves decision-making. It's a performance activity, like sports or acting.

— Mark Goulston

Entrepreneurship is throwing yourself off a cliff and assembling an aeroplane on the way down

— Anonymous

The amateur salesman sells products; the professional sells solutions to needs and problems.

— Stephen Covey

“what are you seeing? people selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their product”

— Max Brooks

Investing isn't about beating others at their game. It's about controlling yourself at your own game.

— Benjamin Graham

“Rule No. 5: No Business Plan Survives First Contact with Customers So Use a Business Model Canvas”

— Steven Gary Blank

If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing bsuiness at all.

— Leo Burnett

From time to time, an excessively strong dollar may have negative short-term implications on the economy.

— Steve Mnuchin

Emerging investors want to invest differently. They want to have their dollars - their investment dollars - do double duty.

— Sallie Krawcheck