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Quotes About Customer

Rather a tough customer in argyment.
~ Charles Dickens
Those venerable and feeble persons were always seen by the public in the act of bowing, and were popularly believed, when they had bowed a customer out, still to keep on bowing in the empty office until they bowed another customer in.
~ Charles Dickens
There happened to be no customer in the shop but Jacques Three, of the restless fingers and the croaking voice. This man, whom he had seen upon the Jury, stood drinking at the little counter, in conversation with the Defarges, man and wife. The Vengeance assisted in the conversation, like a regular member of the establishment.
~ Charles Dickens
The bottom line of my business philosophy can best be summed up as follows: Good profit can only result from creating value for the customer. It is the manifestation of the entrepreneur's respect for what the customer values.
~ Charles G. Koch
A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
~ Harold Coffin, unverified
Great service doesn't happen without great people.
~ Greg W. Marshall
Made in Japan," "Made in Italy," "Made in the United States"—each has meaning to customers and infers that a product has certain qualities based on its country of origin. Such perceptions can change over time. Immediately after World War II, products made in Japan were considered of poor quality and inexpensive, which may seem hard to believe in light of the preeminent view of Japanese quality in the 21st century.
~ Greg W. Marshall
Our marketing strategy is driven by the customer experience, not by "growth hawking." We believe companies should be about fewer games, fewer hoops, and more value. We feel like open content speaks to that.
~ Gregory Ciotti
What unfortunately happens is we have about... 350 million interactions with consumers a year, between phone calls and truck calls. It may be over 400 million, and that doesn't count any online interactions, which I think is over a billion. You get one-tenth of one-percent bad experience, that's a lot of people - unacceptable.
~ Brian L. Roberts
We have awesome, passionate customer success and social media teams, but when I see a customer who needs help or is unhappy, I take that personally.
~ Eric Yuan
When most people are unhappy customers, they get mad; I try to get rich. All of my businesses started the same way: I got rich by improving the world and making a lot of people happier in the process.
~ Paul Zane Pilzer
One should always try to do the best you possibly can. I'm not in a race to the finish line - I won't put anything out until it's completely ready. You want to keep it special and unique for the customer.
~ L'Wren Scott
We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There's no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either.
~ Steve Ballmer
I dress women the way I see them and the way I envision them from day one, thus my customer knows that what she is looking for she will get.
~ Rachel Roy
As a young analyst just out of Stanford business school in the 1960s, I got to really understand what growth was about. Back then, you had to ask a customer to pay some money. That was the most important thing in getting a company off the ground.
~ Charles Schwab
We need to put ourselves in the shoes of our customers. That is my new battle cry. Live and breathe Starbucks the way our customers do.
~ Howard Schultz
Companies are starting to measure how effective their customer service is and trying to understand what they can do to improve the customer service process.
~ Sanjay Kumar
The business model is both the starting point and the scorecard for Customer Development progress.
~ Steve Blank
Face-to-face customer feedback refines or validates every component of the startup's business model, not just the product itself.
~ Steve Blank
Customer Development changes almost every aspect of startup behavior, performance, metrics, and, as often as not, success potential.
~ Steve Blank
My advice to many ICOs is to start reading about startups and focus on the product, customer, and market as soon as the sale is over. And don't get distracted by post-ICO euphoria and the price of ETH or BTC.
~ William Mougayar
Not all startups are alike. One of the key ways they differ is in the relationship between a startup's new product and its market.
~ Steve Blank
Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.
~ John Wanamaker
He owned a service station, and I used to go there and piddle around - pump some gas, get in the way.
~ Jack Youngblood