#custom

More customers for Canadian oil means that Canadian producers can charge more for their oil, which then means that American businesses and consumers will pay more for oil. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#american businesses #businesses #canadian #charge #consumers

Right now, there are a limited number of customers for Canadian oil. Due to simple geography - and without the pipeline - it's really only cost effective for Canadian oil producers to sell their oil to North American customers, mostly American Midwesterners. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#canadian #cost #customers #due #effective

The purpose of a business is to create customers. ↗

— Sam Wyly

#create #customers #purpose

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

#customer #going #make #particular #please

I think a lot of politicians, rightfully so, understand that their political futures are tied to how many times people see their names in print. The press is so accustomed to politicians wanting those things, it's a surprise when somebody's like, 'Whatever, I'm not really worried about those things.' ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#accustomed #futures #how #i #i think

Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don't have to explain ourselves for the most part. ↗

— Paul Graham

#conservative #customers #explain #most #ourselves

Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom. ↗

— Robert Hall

#apt #authority #custom #enforced #favor

And also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel better about themselves, their workers feel better, and so do their customers. I think this is equally true in the transnational corporations, but it is harder to express in those situations. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#also #better #businesses #corporations #customers

We also had good software in the key categories and more focus on the gameplaying capability, so more of the marketing effort was targeted at game customers. ↗

— Trip Hawkins

#capability #categories #customers #effort #focus

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#become #degrees #men #poison