Quotes About Clients

It was a security consultant's job to be skeptical of their clients' assurances that everything was fine. (SecUnit clients, at least, only assured each other that everything was fine while you stared at the wall and waited for everything to go horribly wrong.)

The point was to retrieve the clients alive and fuck everything else.

I have extracted living clients from situations that were less than nine percent survivable. I'm more than qualified to make that call.

I've had clients who thought they needed an absurd level of security. (And I'm talking absurd even by my standards, and my code was developed by a bond company known for intense xenophobic paranoia, tempered only by desperate greed.)

I never asked clients for information if I could help it. (For a lot of reasons but close to the top was the all-too-common suicidal lack of attention to detail humans were prone to.)

You should never refer to the clients as targets; you don't want to get confused at the wrong moment.

I've had clients who thought they needed an absurd level of security. (And I'm talking absurd even by my standards, and my code was developed by a bond company known for intense xenophobic paranoia, tempered only by desperate greed.) I've also had clients who thought they didn't need any security at all, right up until something ate them.

But I needed them to trust me so I could keep them alive and keep doing my job. The good version of my job, not the half-assed version of my job that I'd been doing before things started trying to kill my clients.

On this contract, Dr. Ratthi jumped up and said, "I'll get the cases!" I yelled, "No!" which I'm not supposed to do; I'm always supposed to speak respectfully to the clients, even when they're about to accidentally commit suicide.

Humans have a bad tendency to use weapons unnecessarily and indiscriminately. Of the many times I had been shot, a depressingly large percentage of hits had come from clients who were trying to "help" me.

Les clients de SecUnit, en tout cas, se rassurent les uns les autres pendant que leur androïde, le regard rivé au mur, attend que tout vire au cauchemar.

But surely clients will know? Aren't clients rational actors with clear demands? No.

Small clients, by contrast, are intellectually challenging, enjoyable to work for, and miserably unprofitable.

Nevertheless, even though our industries are at war at the moment, the merger of PR, advertising, and digital companies, as already noted, is absolutely inevitable, because clients need full-service communications consultancies.

Nowadays, some 60-70 percent of our clients turn to us as PR consultants - and it seems to be exactly the same everywhere in the world - for two main reasons: crisis management and reputation management.

Today, thanks to the social media revolution, clients actually own media and consequently a platform to express themselves.

constantly worrying about money is boring. Use your brain to think about your clients and their problems. Use it to be creative.

and how sometimes when she can't get her clients talking about what happened over there she'll get a map of the country, an appropriate map for their world, and pinpoint where they last lived, where their family went missing. Sometimes they would be reluctant to talk, but when they saw the map they would point to a place and say, "There. My village," and that's how their dialogue would begin. With a sense of place.

In advertising, if you could get clients to laugh, they usually bought your ideas

The common law—government at its basest and least objectionable—is akin in this sense to architecture and fashion. It is the sum total of literally millions of attorneys, clients, lawyers, judges, and politicians making marginal changes over decades. No one mind can deduce it in its totality and simultaneously contain all the infinite threads woven throughout.

Economic, financial, and political predictors… are quite ashamed to say anything outlandish to their clients—and yet events, it turns out, are almost always outlandish.

He had no great advice to offer to his clients about this fact. He just wanted them to understand the likelihood that they would be incinerated shortly.

In the way that everything on Wall Street was rank-ordered, with a heavy overlay of social class, trading was a lower activity than what Morgan Stanley did, the province of smaller and, to be frank about it, Jewish firms, in the same way that having clients who were in retailing or media, rather than industry, was lower, and also Jewish.

Here, sit down, and let me answer your question. God wants to have a relationship with you through His Son. In business, Richard, I know you tell us here in the firm to develop relationships with influential people and with clients. How do we do that?' 'Well,' Richard answered, 'we spend time with them, get to know everything we can about them, talk to them, listen to them, try to figure out what's important to them . . . All of that builds the relationship