Customer Quotes · Page 86

If I have noticed anything over these 60 years on Wall Street, it is that people do not succeed in forecasting what's…

— Benjamin Graham

When you understand your customer base, you have to provide them with what they want.

— Geisha Williams

“Avoid the Yes or No-and-Go scenario.Give more than one option for others to do business with you. Include packages or pricing options.”

— Lisa Mininni

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

— William Lyon Phelps

The Federal Reserve needs to provide small businesses in America with the same low-interest loans it gave to foreign banks.

— Bernie Sanders

There is no reason to be hesitantbecoming an entrepreneur is a learning experience.

— Savannah Britt

His work "The Pasture" features cast bronze cows in Toronto's financial district I wanted to remind stockbrokers what real stock is.

— Joe Fafard

I think one difference is that women don't cook from a place of ego; they cook to please their customer.

— Antonia Lofaso

The full faith and credit of the United States to fulfill its financial obligations has made it the underpinning of financial markets…

— Jonathan Capehart

The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur are the ability to fail, to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to…

— James Altucher

To understand KKR, I always like to say, don't congratulate us when we buy a company. Any fool can buy a company.…

— Henry Kravis

We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and they're the reason we're successful: Put the…

— Jeff Bezos

Embrace opportunities with limited downside, unlimited upside. The best deals are those where your risk of loss is predictable and fixed if…

— Steve Pavlina

I do lament how many investors focus on all the short-term sugar buzz of some marginal improvement in something - nothing history…

— Steve Jurvetson

Lethargy bordering on sloth remains the cornerstone of our investment style. The exception was Wells Fargo, a superbly-managed, high-return banking operation in…

— Warren Buffett

Successful investment may become substantially a matter of techniques and criteria that are learnable, rather than the product of unique and incommunicable…

— Benjamin Graham

But, surprise - none of these blockbuster events made the slightest dent in Ben Graham's investment principles. Nor did they render unsound…

— Warren Buffett

“You have no idea. when you're a salesman here in Marrakech medima, lying is the first thing you learn. generation after generation,…

— Tahir Shah

Negative effects on the economy were covered up with a flood of liquidity from the Fed. That,plus lax regulation, led to a…

— Joseph Stiglitz

“There is an enormous difference between starting a company and running one. Thinking up great ideas, which requires mainly intelligence and knowledge,…

— Robert X. Cringely

For sure, they don't teach you this in history class, but in colonial times, the person who got left in the stocks…

— Chuck Palahniuk

In most cases, if you've gotten to this point, you've already received a letter or phone message from your creditor with the…

— Jean Chatzky

Investors frequently benefit from making decisions with less than perfect knowledge and are well rewarded for bearing the risk of uncertainty. The…

— Seth Klarman

The key to investment success is emotional discipline. Making money has nothing to do with intelligence. To be a successful investor, you…

— Victor Sperandeo

You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't…

— Peter Lynch

“always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. You can buy a person’s hand, but you…

— Stephen R. Covey

I love the competitive part of stocks. A lot of fear and greed, that's all it is. All I see is green…

— Josh Brolin

We're all shareholders. These guys below me, they see the CEO taking it easy, it's their money.

— Ivan Glasenberg

Usually, you measure appetite of investors by their ability or willingness to take a bit of leverage on their positions.

— Sergio Ermotti

Better service for the customer is for the good of the public, and this is the true purpose of enterprise.

— Konosuke Matsushita

Buy into a company because you want to own it, not because you want the stock to go up.

— Warren Buffett

Practical investors usually learn their problem is finding enough outstanding investments, rather than choosing among too many.

— Philip Arthur Fisher

Over time, it's becoming more and more understood by people that we're acting in their interests. And that's a very, very powerful…

— Larry Page

Why is no one talking about all the potential savings from a complete economic collapse?

— Eugene Mirman

It is only by understanding the emotion of others that an investor has a chance to produce superior results.

— John Templeton

I would advise someone who has just retired to be something in the broad range of 50/50 stocks and bonds.

— John C. Bogle

Internal marketing is probably much more important than external marketing. That's even more true today than it's ever been.

— Tom Stewart

When Warren Buffett says the sun shines out of somebody's backside, it's worth paying attention.

— Guy Spier

Alan Greenspan is going to go down in history as one of the worst Federal Reserve chairmen ever.

— Bill Foster

Investing is about intellectual honesty. You want to know what you know. You want to know, mostly, what you don't know.

— Li Lu