Customer Quotes

While 'The Owner's Manual' is not a formula for guaranteed success by any means, we're confident it will help reduce the failure rate of most startups that use our Customer Development process.

~ Steve Blank

When you stop talking, you've lost your customer. When you turn your back, you've lost her.

~ Estee Lauder

Learning to see waste and systematically eliminate it has allowed lean companies such as Toyota to dominate entire industries. Lean thinking defines value as 'providing benefit to the customer' anything else is waste.

~ Eric Ries

The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works.

~ Jeff Bezos

A complaint is a chance to turn a customer into a lifelong friend. I say that seriously, not as some press release baloney.

~ Richard Branson

The buyer, the prospect, the customer expects you to have knowledge of their stuff, not just your stuff.

~ Jeffrey Gitomer

As a brand marketer, I'm a big believer in 'branding the customer experience,' not just selling the service.

~ John Sculley

We are putting the customer at the center of everything we do and are directing our resources towards those innovations and investments that will strengthen our ability to deliver a better McDonald's experience over time.

~ Steve Easterbrook

Many corporate leaders and employees have the right intentions, but it can be overwhelming when you consider how everything is affected from leadership styles, to organizational structure, to employee engagement, to customer service an marketplace.

~ Simon Mainwaring

The average customer comes into McDonald's three to four times a month, and I'm absolutely convinced that can fit in very comfortably into a balanced diet.

~ Steve Easterbrook

Advertising is, of course, important because advertise is the final design. It's the last layer that speaks to the customer, that tells them what you have.

~ Tom Ford

There is always going to be that luxury customer out there. I have clients who buy $10,000 dresses and clients who buy $60 dresses. It's not so much about the money. Design is a mentality.

~ Jason Wu

The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.

~ Michael Dell

My friends and the people I know understand that I'm going to ask them what they're doing, how they're dating, who they're dating, where they're going and what they're doing. I'm constantly asking those questions and making sure I'm in touch with the customer.

~ Sam Yagan

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

~ Henry Ford

At a car dealership, the person who sells the car is the hero, and also gets the commission. But if the mechanics don't service that car well, the customer won't return.

~ Roger Staubach

You want to make sure this particular car is going to please the customer and then you're going to be rewarded with something that is going to please the shareholder.

~ Carlos Ghosn

Indian car buyers have not really been exposed to customer care in a competitive environment.

~ Ratan Tata

We have a relationship with our customer, and that relationship translates into sales.

~ Richard Hayne

The customer is a remarkably selfish person: He takes the relationship to where the execution is in his favor.

~ Azim Premji

Corporations invest in sophisticated CRM, or Customer Relationship Management, programs to effectively oversee their relationship with their customers at every point during the buying process.

~ Marc Ostrofsky