Quotes About Clients

I befriend most of my clients, and I like to go out with them. I like to socialize with them: They're interesting.

I was very fortunate to come into sports representation with Arn Tellem; he has helped me understand the business in the same way that we help out clients find solutions to their problems.

We want all clients to think of us first when they want to hire an auditor or if they want to have an adviser to solve difficult corporate problems. We want the best talent to join our firm.

Marketing is your battle plan for the sales team - it's about defining the landscape. Marketing is doing cohort analysis and understanding exactly what possible customers are out there. It's understanding not only which customers will respond to what messages, but also how customers will become clients if you include certain product features.

When we released JUnit 4 recently we spent nearly half of our engineering budget on reducing the cost of deployment for our clients. We tried to make sure that new-style tests would work with old tools and old-style tests would work with new tools. We also worked to make sure we had the freedom to make future changes to JUnit without breaking client code.

At some point, the cost of maintaining perfect compatibility outweighs the value to clients.

Packages can provide a way to offer clients incremental access to upgrades. By introducing new classes in a new package, you can give them the same name as the old classes. For example, if I can upgrade org.junit.Assert in org.junit.newandimproved.Assert, then clients need only change the import statements to be using the new class. Changing imports is less risky and intrusive than changing code.

It is the framework developer's job to ensure that clients can extend the framework to solve the remainder of their problems. It's tempting to try to solve a broad range of problems with a framework. The conflict is that the added functionality makes the framework that much more difficult to learn and use for all clients.

For example, it might be the case that 80 percent of a business's profits come from just 20 percent of its clients, 80 percent of a nation's wealth is held by its richest 20 percent of citizens, or 80 percent of computer software crashes come from just 20 percent of the identified bugs.

And I'm glad to see that all three clients are male. Not that the females can't be corrupted, I've just always found the males more amenable to temptation. The males have always had all the power, so that does much to explain it. As they say: Easy pickings.

Time was when much of lawyering consisted (according to turn-of-the-century lawyer and statesman Elihu Root) in "telling would-be clients that they are damned fool's, and should stop.

A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

I like my clients. All of my clients say, "Peter. You're talented. But, your best virtue is your discretion." They really don't want to be talked about.

My clients don't pay me to feel sorry; they pay me to bring them money. I am tough, but I have a soft side.

From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyers in South Africa, but we were the only firm of African lawyers. For Africans, we were the firm of first choice and last resort.

Independence is person-specific: I have always been taken aback at the high number of people in whom an astonishingly high income led to additional sycophancy as they became more dependent on their clients and employers and more addicted to making even more money.)

He did better emotionally with his own portfolio than with those of clients, since he was not obligated to monitor it continuously.

Value clients enough to make them the central focus. Never make your clients feel like there is anyone on the planet more important than them. They are your priority. Every. Time.

The kind of job where you have to hustle and hustle and where you're not sure whether you will have enough clients next month, where you have less job security, is becoming much more common.

Maslow might be speaking of clients I have known when he says, "self-actualized people have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy, however stale these experiences may be for other people." (4, p. 214)

Time and again in my clients, I have seen simple people become significant and creative in their own spheres, as they have developed more trust of the processes going on within themselves, and have dared to feel their own feelings, live by values which they discover within, and express themselves in their own unique ways.

It's all about what your ideal clients really care and you are going to learn how to offer what that true, ideal client really wants and find their unmet needs so that you can offer the very best-in-class product and service out there and meet those needs. You won't be making empty promises or selling what you can't deliver.

Find your own free time and use this stage of your life as an investment; finding your allies (your lifetime clients) will create astounding results for the rest of your life.

You are very susceptible to price shoppers and have ZERO brand loyalty You'll attract clients who care more about price than quality