Customer Quotes · Page 173

When government borrowing and spending go up, private borrowing and spending go down.

— Maxime Bernier

BBJ customers value long-range capability and cabin size, and this product offering enhances both.

— Steven Hill

When you inject capital into the parent, it may or may not benefit the subsidiary.

— Charles Dallara

The only reason you should be an entrepreneur is because that's the only way the idea will come into the world.

— Dustin Moskovitz

“If you want to know how a company treats its employees, watch how its employees treat customers.”

— Anonymous

Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.

— Daniel Drew

“It works great.” Nine times out of ten, his customers were delighted with that answer.”

— Phil M Jones

Great salespeople are relationship builders who provide value and help their customers win.

— Jeffrey Gitomer

“Your customers are always changing and so are their values, perceptions, and needs. Having up-to-date knowledge about them will help you in…

— Pooja Agnihotri

Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important…

— David Packard

Entrepreneurial creation is the generation, de novo, of novelty and surprise- freedom of choice originating in the world of ideas, and imagination…

— George Gilder

Since we don't use any type of currency manipulation schemes - we have a floating exchange market - we are very glad…

— Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal

When you get a range expansion, the market is sending you a very loud, clear signal that the market is getting ready…

— Paul Tudor Jones

“The state arbitrarily set the mortgage interest rate at 8.5 percent—below the prime rate of 9 or so percent—so banks could make…

— Ken Auletta

“Power-purchasing” strategies are described, some of which are group purchasing organizations, just-in-time purchasing, one-stop purchasing, and prime vendor agreements.”

— Ruby Parker Puckett

“When Warren Buffett talks about competing against only half of the population, I think about her and wonder how different her life…

— Sheryl Sandberg

The trick of successful investors is to sell when they want to, not when they have to.

— Seth Klarman

Society can't wait. It's sad there are so many entrepreneurs, business successes and venture capitalists who give no thought to society.

— Les Wexner

You should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don't know what the future is going to hold.

— Ray Dalio

In a market where funding is hard to come by, if you're scaled already, then you are in a brilliant position because…

— Naveen Tewari

“The Customer Development model consists of four well-defined steps: Customer Discovery, Customer Validation, Customer Creation, and Company Building.”

— Steven Gary Blank

Your first job, as an owner and an entrepreneur, has to be to understand how the business is going to actually work.

— Michael Gerber

The media often glamorizes successful founders and makes their paths seem easier than they actually were.

— Jessica Livingston

Most of all, I discovered that in order to succeed with a product, you must truly get to know your customers and…

— Marc Benioff

Remember: You are the only human being in the world who can help this particular customer at this particular moment in time.

— Tom Peters

You would be surprised how many people are in the market not to make money but for the thrill of it!

— Venita VanCaspel

For decades, Wall Street has charged companies a standard fee of 7 percent to sell their shares to the public.

— Alex Berenson

The Federal Reserve... is in the position of the chaperone who has ordered the punch bowl removed just when the party was…

— William McChesney Martin

“Citizen depression has always been the fuel of all marketing strategies throughout the ages.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

Using science to tell us what customers are looking for is second nature for us here.

— Gillian Tans

Use every customer point of contact to weave stories about who you are and what your brand stands for.

— Gary Vaynerchuk

We must learn what customers really want, not what they say they want or what we think they should want.

— Eric Ries

The stockmarket is a semi-psychotic creature given to extremes of elation and despair.

— Warren Buffett

The normal expectancy of the average investor - for example, the pension funds of AT&T or IBM - is 6% for a…

— Charlie Munger

Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.

— Bill Gross

I think AMD is at our best when we're working with a customer and allowing them to do something they couldn't do…

— Lisa Su

It doesn't need to be consistently concentrated in these venture-capital funds and things like that.

— Edward Snowden

At its best, entrepreneurship creates jobs, solves problems, and galvanizes creative thinking.

— Neil Blumenthal

Traders can cause short-term volatility. In the long run, the market must revert to a sensible price/earnings multiple.

— Ben Stein

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.

— W. Clement Stone