If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering. — Jeff Bezos
Success and profitability are outcomes of focusing on customers and employees, not objectives. — Jack Ma
Company's vision must be driven by the aspirations of its customers. — Konosuke Matsushita
Know what your customers want most and what your company does best. Focus on where those two meet. — Kevin Stirtz
All of management's efforts for Kaizen boil down to two words: customer satisfaction. — Masaaki Imai
Look after the customer and the business will take care of itself — Ray Kroc
The successful salesperson cares first for the customer, second for the products. — Philip Kotler
Revolve your world around the customer and more customers will revolve around you. — Heather Williams
The only way we can bring our corporate plans to life is by serving customers. — Jeff Lawson
You‘ve got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology - not the other way around. — Steve Jobs
A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all. — Michael Leboeuf
Above all else, align with customers. Win when they win. Win only when they win. — Jeff Bezos
An industry begins with the customer and his or her needs, not with a patent, a raw material, or a selling skill — Theodore Levitt
We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better. — Jeff Bezos
Your clients are critical to your business. Don't lose touch with who they are and why they've chosen to do business with you. — Lewis Howes
Short Customs Quotes
The best advertising is done by satisfied customers. — Philip Kotler
Every business is a service business. Does your service put a smile on the customer's face? — Philip Kotler
The greatest accomplishment of a bartender lies in his ability to exactly suit his customer. . . — Harry Gordon Johnson
Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners. — Jimmy Stewart
The best marketing doesn't feel like marketing. — Tom Fishburne
Customer satisfaction is worthless. Customer loyalty is priceless. — Jeffrey Gitomer
Customs Image Quotes
Customer needs may vary, but their bias for quality never does. — J. Willard Marriott
What is good for our customers is also in the long run good for us. — Ingvar Kamprad
The purpose of a business is to create a customer. — Peter Drucker
Customers will never love a company until the employees love it first.
Customer Service Quotes
Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it. — Peter Drucker
After-sales service is more important than assistance before sales. It is through such service that one gets permanent customers. — Konosuke Matsushita
In our way of working, we attach a great deal of importance to humility and honesty; With respect for human values, we promise to serve our customers with integrity. — Azim Premji
Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers.
The nature of any human being, certainly anyone on Wall Street, is 'the better deal you give the customer, the worse deal it is for you'. — Bernard Madoff
Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves — Steve Jobs
If you're not serving the customer, your job is to be serving someone who is. — Jan Carlzon
Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself — Gary Comer
Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships. — H. Ross Perot
To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To you, respect. — Oren Arnold
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric. — John Stuart Mill
Inspiring Customer Service Quotes
You cannot improve one thing by 1000% but you can improve 1000 little things by 1%. — Jan Carlzon
Customers don't expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong. — Don Porter
The most important adage and the only adage is, the customer comes first, whatever the business, the customer comes first. — Kerry Stokes
If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune. — Jim Rohn
Being on par in terms of price and quality only gets you into the game. Service wins the game. — Tony Alessandra
You don't earn loyalty in a day. You earn loyalty day-by-day. — Jeffrey Gitomer
There is a spiritual aspect to our lives - when we give, we receive-when a business does something good for somebody, that somebody feels good about them! — Ben Cohen
We are superior to the competition because we hire employees who work in an environment of belonging and purpose. We foster a climate where the employee can deliver what the customer wants. You cannot deliver what the customer wants by controlling the employee. — Horst Schulze
Unless you have 100% customer satisfaction, you must improve. — Horst Schulze
Good service leads to multiple sales. If you take good care of your customers, they will open doors you could never open by yourself. — Jim Rohn
Customer Satisfaction Quotes
Authentic marketing is not the art of selling what you make but knowing what to make. It is the art of identifying and understanding customer needs and creating solutions that deliver satisfaction to the customers, profits to the producers and benefits for the stakeholders. — Philip Kotler
The first step in exceeding your customer's expectations is to know those expectations. — Roy H. Williams
Our goal as marketers and business owners is to increase the value of the dream outcome and its perceived likelihood of achievement, while decreasing the time delay of achievement and the effort and sacrifice one has to put in to get there. — Alex Hormozi
Solve rich people’s problems. They pay better. — Alex Hormozi
In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that. — Bill Gates
Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends. — Walt Disney
Customer service shouldn't just be A department, it should be the entire company. — Tony Hsieh
Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you. — Mark Cuban
Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will. — Bill Gates
If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we'll turn out all right. — Jeff Bezos
Customer Experience Quotes
Although I have never worked in a community bank, I have been a customer, and I know from personal experience the special skills that these institutions bring to their customers. — Jerome Powell
If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful. — Jeff Bezos
It’s important to treat your customers like guests and give them a great experience every time they come to your restaurant. — Glen Bell
You don’t have to spend a jillion dollars on advertising to get your word out. What matters is that customers have a good experience with your product at every single point of contact. — David Neeleman
Highly engaged employees make the customer experience. Disengaged employees break it. — Timothy R. Clark
To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Accepting the key premise that the learner is the primary customer of schooling means others follow naturally. ... The core business of schooling is learning, and the quality of learning experienced by all learners should be the standard against which performance is measured. — David Hood
At SAP, we see a dream for a simpler world, for a simpler SAP, and for a simpler customer experience. — Sayings
We will hire someone with less experience, less education, and less expertise, than someone who has more of those things and has a rotten attitude. Because we can train people. We can teach people how to lead. We can teach people how to provide customer service. But we can't change their DNA. — Herb Kelleher
Everything starts with the customer. — Lou Gerstner
Customer Success Quotes
The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people. — Thomas J. Peters
The #1 guideline to success is you must be in business for yourself. When you work for someone else, you sell your time at wholesale to your employer, who then re-sells it at retail to the customer. — J. Paul Getty
If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours. — Ray Kroc
The costs of poor quality are tangible; they will cost you customers and money, and ultimately affect the success of your business. — Subir Chowdhury
Sham Harga had run a successful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals properly balanced between the four food groups: sugar, starch, grease, and burnt crunchy bits. — Terry Pratchett
He or she must be successful in economic terms, but always within an ethical framework. Whether his or her constituency is a corporation and its shareholders or the customers in a small and privately held business, his or her first responsibility is to serve that constituency. — Lee R. Raymond
The secret to success: Do what you say you're going to do. — Danielle LaPorte
Do what you say you are going to do, when you say you are going to do it, in the way you said you were going to do it. — Larry Winget
It's not about market share. If you have a successful company, you will get your market share. But to get a successful company, what do you have to have? The same metrics of success that your customer does. — Gordon Bethune
At the end of every day, having a clientele that speaks well of you, that's the largest source of business. I don't care what kind of business you're in. Clients referring us to their friends or relatives is so much more powerful than any advertising we could ever do. — Charles R. Schwab
Loyal Customers Quotes
The key is to set realistic customer expectations, and then not to just meet them, but to exceed them - preferably in unexpected and helpful ways. — Richard Branson
If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends. — Jeff Bezos
In the world of Internet Customer Service, it's important to remember your competitor is only one mouse click away. — Douglas A. Warner III
Every contact we have with a customer influences whether or not they'll come back. We have to be great every time or we'll lose them. — Kevin Stirtz
Loyal customers, they don't just come back, they don't simply recommend you, they insist that their friends do business with you. — Chip R. Bell
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
On the Internet, it's survival of the easiest.... Give users a good experience and they're apt to turn into frequent and loyal customers. But ... it's easy to turn to another supplier in the face of even a minor hiccup. Only if a site is extremely easy to use will anybody bother staying around. — Jakob Nielsen
Customer Loyalty Quotes
I learned early on that if you take care of your employees, they will take care of your customers, and the business will take care of itself. — Glen Bell
The fact that I could (and often did) build a relationship with my customers was my unfair advantage over my biggest competitors. — Pat Flynn
Enterprise customers have been working together with us for a long time, they trust us, and we just keep everything open and transparent. — Eric Yuan
We expect our employees to care about the community, the company, their teammates, customers, and themselves. — Eric Yuan
Getting existing customers to pay more money is much easier than acquiring new users. — Cliff Lerner
A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. — Mahatma Gandhi
Loyalty is earned with friendliness, responsiveness, ease of doing business, fair value, and the good feeling customers get when they call you, visit you, or interact with you. — Jeffrey Gitomer
There is only one boss. The customer. — Sam Walton
The easiest and most powerful way to increase customer loyalty is really very simple. Make your customers happy. — Kevin Stirtz
There is extraordinary chemistry that exists in long-term relationships — Jay Conrad Levinson
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else. — Sam Walton
All we are doing is looking at the time line, from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect the cash. And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value adding wastes. — Taiichi Ohno
Human behavior is subject to the same laws as any other natural phenomenon. Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture. No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns. If the environment is unaltered, similar behavior will reoccur. — Jacque Fresco
Grant me the ability to be alone, May it be my custom to go outdoors each day among the trees and grasses among all growing things and there may I be alone, and enter into prayer to talk with the one that I belong to. — Nachman of Breslov
This country, the Republic of Indonesia, does not belong to any group, nor to any religion, nor to any ethnic group, nor to any group with customs and traditions, but the property of all of us from Sabang to Merauke! — Sukarno
Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively to ensure the subordinate status of a group defined largely by race. — Michelle Alexander
Many of the customers here are traveling all over the world so they need multiple types of clothes. That's one thing about Urban Zen - it is seasonless and it is timeless. So it's not about the fashion of a moment saying, "I have to have it now." It's something that you become a part of...sort of like a sari. — Donna Karan
A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so. — Mahatma Gandhi
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages. — Henry Ford
The IKEA spirit is strong and living reality. Simplicity in our behavior gives us strength. Simplicity and humbleness characterize us in our relations with each others, our suppliers and our customers. — Ingvar Kamprad
We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a person whose sorrow will endure as long as his life. Such grief, felt in such a way is always present, it is never too late to talk about it, never repetitious to mention it again. — Marcel Proust
It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind. — W. E. B. Du Bois
It is the custom of the immortal gods to grant temporary prosperity and a fairly long period of impunity to those whom they plan to punish for their crimes, so that they may feel it all the more keenly as a result of the change in their fortunes. — Julius Caesar
When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal. — Ambrose
In plain words, pricing this way means you are providing a service at just above what it costs for you to stay above water. We are not trying to stay barely above water. We are trying to make egregious amounts of money that will have your relatives asking if what you are doing is legal. Again, we are not trying to get the most customers. We are trying to make the most money. — Alex Hormozi
Nobody has really grasped yet the great wealth that can be made selling data over the Web. There are 100 million potential customers out there. — Michael Saylor
The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence. — Adam Smith
If there is one positive takeaway from the collapse of Mt.Gox, it is the willingness of a new generation of Bitcoin companies to work together to ensure the future of Bitcoin and the security of customer funds. — Brian Armstrong
Customers will occasionally buy products not because they want them but because of how they are presented to them. — James Clear
If you think and act like a typical manager around creative people—with rules, policies, data on customer preferences, and so forth—you will quickly kill their talent. — Bernard Arnault
There are as many customs as houses. — Hungarian Proverbs
Our conviction at BlackRock is that companies perform better when they are deliberate about their role in society and act in the interests of their employees, customers, communities, and their shareholders. — Larry Fink
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