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• We're going to try to do more to communicate the value of activation to customers in addition to making the process simpler and more consistent.

  Steve Ballmer

  Communication, Trying, Process

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• Communicate with your fans or customers. They know we live in an ever changing world. If you tell them what you are thinking and why you are doing what you do, as I did with my blog regarding Nash leaving, they will respect and support you more.

  Mark Cuban

  Communication, Thinking, Support You

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• The need to communicate effectively with your customers will come up again and again.

  Bill Gates

  Communication, Needs, Come Up

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• My father was and is a great father. My father always wanted to do stand-up. He wanted to be an actor. But instead he did two jobs. He did customer service at a hospital and he worked as a waiter at night. He pretty much sacrificed everything for his daughters.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Daughter, Mother, Jobs

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• Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn't exist' - 'The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills' - 'Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me' - 'Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from. Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives

  Alan Greenspan

  Lying, Moving, Ignorance

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• We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Fashion, Memorable, Artist

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you're taking care of the customer, you can never do too much. And there is no wrong way... if it comes from the heart.

  Debbi Fields

  Inspiration, Heart, Care

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• Ralph Lauren has always stood for providing quality products, creating worlds and inviting people to take part in our dream. We were the innovators of lifestyle advertisements that tell a story and the first to create stores that encourage customers to participate in that lifestyle.

  Ralph Lauren

  Dream, Fashion, Encouragement

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• If you deal with every customer in the same way, you will only close 25 to 30 percent of your contacts, because you will only close one personality type. But if you learn how to effectively work with all four personality types, you can conceivably close 100 percent of your contacts.

  Rod Nichols

  Relationship, Personality, Four

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• In Sales, you have to satisfy two people: One, your customer. Two, your Boss.

  Praveen Kumar

  Leadership, Two, People

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• We strive to hire and retain only those who embrace our MBM® Guiding Principles, which encompass integrity, compliance, value creation, Principled Entrepreneurship, customer focus, knowledge, change, humility, respect and fulfillment.

  Charles Koch

  Integrity, Humility, Guiding Principles

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• Just recently I was in Target with my mom shopping, and out of the blue, I see this father and his two daughters and he says, 'Can they get a picture with you?' And I'm thinking to myself, 'Am I the one millionth customer or something?'

  Atticus Shaffer

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

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• The customer is never wrong.

  Cesar Ritz

  Inspirational

  In R. Nevill and C. E. Jerningham 'Piccadilly to Pall Mall' (1908) p. 94

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• Using the Product Development Waterfall diagram for Customer Development activities is like using a clock to tell the temperature. They both measure something, but not the thing you wanted.

  Steve Blank

  Trust, Development, Waterfalls

  Steve Blank (2013). “The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win”, p.29, BookBaby

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• Treat your customers like they own you. Because they do.

  Mark Cuban

  Business, Life Changing, Treats

  Mark Cuban (2011). “How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It”, p.72, Diversion Books

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• Remain true to yourself and your philosophy. Changing in the face of adversity will in fact diminish your credibility with your customers.

  Giorgio Armani

  Life, Change, Philosophy

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• Take some time to play around with segmentation. If you can pinpoint your best and worst customers it's well worth the time.

  Des MacHale

  Play, Worst, Wells

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• Even in the face of massive competition, don't think about the competition. Literally don't think about them. Every time you're in a meeting and you're tempted to talk about a competitor, replace that thought with one about user feedback or surveys. Just think about the customer.

  Mike McCue

  Motivational, Business, Thinking

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• Listen to your customers, not your competitors.

  Joel Spolsky

  Motivational, Business, Competitors

  Joel Spolsky (2004). “Joel on Software”, p.336, Apress

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• By some estimates, the oil you recently discovered off the shores of Brazil could amount to twice the reserves we have in the United States. We want to work with you. We want to help with technology and support to develop these oil reserves safely, and when you're ready to start selling, we want to be one of your best customers.

  Barack Obama

  Technology, Oil, Support

  "Brazil bars Chevron executives from leaving over spill" by Marilia Brocchetto and Maria P. White, www.cnn.com. March 18, 2012.

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• Forget about yourncompetitors, just focus on your customers.

  Jack Ma

  Business, Focus, Forget

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• It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more nearly his own mind pulsates with the great ebbs and flows of popular delusion and emotion, the more admirably he performs his function. He may be an ass, but that is surely no demerit in a man paid to make asses of his customers.

  H. L. Mencken

  Teaching, Men, Thinking

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.316, Vintage

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• The intellectual's hostility to the businessman presents no mystery, as the two have, by function, wholly different standards. While the businessman's motto is the customer is always right, the intellectual's task is to preserve his perceived standards against the weight of popular opinion.

  Bertrand de Jouvenel

  Philosophy, Two, Political

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• People ask me, how is managing in the New Economy different from managing in the Old Economy? Actually, it's a lot the same. It's about the financial discipline of the bottom line, understanding your customers, segmenting your customers by their needs, and building a world-class management team.

  Meg Whitman

  Team, Class, Discipline

  Interview with Stephen B. Shepard, www.bloomberg.com. March 19, 2001.

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• Customers should complain more. You know, food's expensive nowadays. And these sommeliers come along with their thousand-page wine list and practically throw it in your lap. They're all businessmen and know that customers get intimidated and buy something overpriced. I say, always put them on the spot. 'You come back to me with a red wine at $30, $40. Come back to me with a choice.'

  Gordon Ramsay

  Success, Wine, Choices

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