Customers Quotes - Page 7

• Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.

  Gary Hamel

  Loyalty, Irrelevance, Long

  "Gary Hamel On Innovating Innovation". Interview with Steve Denning, www.forbes.com. December 04, 2012.

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• I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business.

  Gary Hamel

  Believe, Choices, Risk

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• It doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is - what matters is its relative 'share of customer value' in the final product or solution, and its cost of producing that value.

  Gary Hamel

  Educational, Ecosystems, What Matters

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• I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Relationship, Peace

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• Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.

  Kin Hubbard

  Money, Thinking, Losing

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• A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Positivity

  "'We Have to Work Harder to Explain Why Trade Matters'". Speech to the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise by WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo, www.wto.org. October 21, 2016.

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• But the customer is the final, final filter. What survives the whole process is what people wear. I'm not interested in making clothes that end up in some dusty museum.

  Marc Jacobs

  Educational, Clothes, Museums

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• I empathize with women in their high heels so I'll be there in my kilt and T-shirt and I'll walk around all day just to prove that if I can wear the shoes for 36 hours then certainly our customer can wear them.

  Marc Jacobs

  Funny, High Heels, Shoes

  "Exclusive Q&A with Marc Jacobs". Interview with Katie Connor, www.marieclaire.com. August 10, 2010.

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• Go where your customers take you! For example, did you know that Sony's first product was a rice cooker? Since abandoning the rice cooker, it has merely managed to become the world's biggest consumer electronics company.

  Naveen Jain

  Example, World, Electronics

  FaceBook post by Naveen Jain from Oct 28, 2016

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• You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Educational

  "The Entrepreneur of the Decade Award". Inc. Magazine, April 1, 1989.

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• A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Business, Educational

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.32, Prabhat Prakashan

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• I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Success, Fun

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.69, Prabhat Prakashan

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• I get asked a lot why Apple's customers are so loyal. It's not because they belong to the Church of Mac! That's ridiculous.

  Steve Jobs

  Apples, Church, Loyal

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.20, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Jobs, Educational

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.40, Prabhat Prakashan

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• It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.

  Steve Jobs

  Years, Three, Want

  "The Entrepreneur of the Decade". Interview with Bo Burlingham, George Gendron, www.inc.com. April 1, 1989.

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• I think right now it's a battle for the mindshare of developers and for the mindshare of customers, and right now iPhone and Android are winning that battle.

  Steve Jobs

  Winning, Thinking, Iphone

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.51, Prabhat Prakashan

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• This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.

  Steve Jobs

  Educational, Mean, Sweat

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• It's very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Easy, Insurance Companies, Company

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• The jewelry business is a very, very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Care, Tough, Jewelry

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• When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Business, Skins, Should

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• Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Lying, Opportunity

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• We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.

  Ray Kroc

  Success, Business, Mcdonalds

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

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• What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream. What I did see on Twitter was a potential for mass publication; it's a mainstream consumer broadcasting device. It transforms customers and companies. You have to be transparent or you fail.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Failing, Broadcasting, Mainstream

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• Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Data, Needs, Problem

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