#custom

Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#tradition #reason

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. ↗

— Bill Gates

#greatest #learning #most #source #unhappy

In my column series "The Main Thing," I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#between #both #business #column #communicate

We can collaborate with a Netscape employee or partner who's halfway around the world. We can distribute information and software to customers and shareholders, and get their feedback. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#collaborate #customers #distribute #employee #feedback

To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing. ↗

— Michael Bolton

#along #doing #had #make #sing

In addition to building better products, a more open world will also encourage businesses to engage with their customers directly and authentically. More than four million businesses have Pages on Facebook that they use to have a dialogue with their customers. We expect this trend to grow as well. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#also #better #building #businesses #customers

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#custom #dancing #learn #made #man

The cost of acquiring new customers and maintaining those relationships in an online environment versus bricks and mortar is significant. ↗

— Stephen Cohen

#bricks #cost #customers #environment #maintaining

Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff. ↗

— Scott Cook

#costs #customer #dramatically #even #focus

Hassan and I looked at each other. Cracked up. The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980's: that Afghans are an independent people. Afghans cherish customs but abhor rules. And so it was with kite fighting. The rules were simple: No rules. Fly your kite. Cut the opponents. Good luck. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#customs #life #life