Customer Quotes · Page 87

I find value investing to be a stimulating, intellectually challenging, ever changing, and financially rewarding discipline

— Seth Klarman

Over the last 15 years we've developed our brand into a global brand and we wanted our giving to follow suit.

— Tommy Hilfiger

Shareholders share in the downside and not necessarily in the upside; that's the whole story.

— John Gutfreund

Don't short many stocks. Instead they hedge for tail risk with CDS and options. They are happy to incur illiquidity

— Seth Klarman

The difference between success and failure is not which stock you buy or which piece of real estate you buy, it's asset…

— Tony Robbins

If you're not spending 80 percent of your time marketing and selling, you are headed for trouble.

— Mark M. Ford

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.

— Bob Hope

I wish all fast food chains could have excellent customer service like chick-fil-A...

— Anonymous

Competition is good for consumers for the simple reason that it compels producers to offer better deals - lower prices, better quality,…

— John Vickers

I find it very difficult to think of mistakes; not that I don't make any but because I was brought up to…

— Richard Branson

If you spend your energies looking for and analysing situations not closely followed by other informed investors, your chance of finding bargains…

— Joel Greenblatt

We want these assets to be productive. We buy them. We own them. To say we care only about the short term…

— Carl Icahn

Throughout the 19th century, when there was a laissez-faire mentality and insufficient regulation, you had one crisis after another. Each crisis brought…

— George Soros

“One ratio that Buffett is known to track is the total market cap to GDP. Recently, it was at 125%, which is…

— Daniel Pecaut

... it's important to have the right monetary policy. It's important for, to have the right fiscal policy. But it's nowhere near…

— Warren Buffett

In our equities business, 49 of the 50 most important Lehman clients are back doing business with us. The flows are 75…

— Bob Diamond

“The triple-A tranches all traded at one price, the triple-B tranches all traded at another, even though there were important differences from…

— Michael Lewis

“Thirty thousand new consumer products hit store shelves each year. Ninety percent of them fail. Why? We’re using misguided market-segmentation practices. For…

— Harvard Business School Press

It's time to pull the bandage off America's foreclosure problem. The economy is ready to emerge from its recent dark period, but…

— Mark Zandi

“if management is under pressure to deliver profits in the short term, quick-response promotions are a more attractive investment than design improvements.…

— Greg Thain

“Your statement ... tells a very fine story; but pray, was not your stock a little heavy a while ago? downward tendency?…

— Herman Melville

“This ... he largest financial bailout in history ... was not just a bailout of SVB [Silicon Valley Bank]. It was a…

— James Rickards

There is no such thing as agflation. Rising commodity prices, or increases in any prices, do not cause inflation. Inflation is what…

— Peter Schiff

What we know about the destination resort business is clearly established. But it's all about one thing, and one thing only. All…

— Steve Wynn

If you stay very focused on customers and customer success, people pay attention to that - and in turn, they also want…

— Aneel Bhusri

Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff.

— Anonymous

Interest rates are to asset prices what gravity is to the apple. When there are low interest rates, there is a very…

— Warren Buffett

“*Customer service* is seldom about the customer; it is usually about the seller’s chances of making more money from that customer in…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Facebook, Twitter and Google have all opened offices in Brazil, recognizing the importance of localizing their products and customer service efforts.

— Ryan Holmes

We have to improve our ability to deliver tangible results, namely sales, not simply awareness or change of attitude among opinion formers.

— Richard Edelman

In the stock market, when you are right, you make a little money; when you are wrong, you learn a lot of…

— Mika

Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talent.

— Andrew Lo

You‘ve got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology - not the other way around.

— Steve Jobs

Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor.

— Peter Drucker

Although there are good and bad companies, there is no such thing as a good stock; there are only good stock prices,…

— Benjamin Graham

The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund…

— Barry Ritholtz

“And entrepreneurship is a risky and heroic activity, necessary for growth or even the mere survival of the economy.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

No man bears more responsibility for the present worldwide financial crisis and coming depression than Alan Greenspan.

— Bill Bonner

To me, entrepreneurship means something different. I think of it as identifying and valuing opportunity.

— Glenn Hubbard

But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now.

— Nicolas Roeg