#customer

The purpose of a business is to create a customer. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#create #customer #purpose

In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders. ↗

— Vernon L. Smith

#bicycle #called #customers #delivering #first

There are a lot of people who touch the customer. ↗

— Roger Staubach

#lot #people #touch #who

But nothing is better than the market, where the customer and the business deal directly with each other, because if you rip people off, word gets out. That business eventually loses its customers, and the good ones that serve people well get the business. You get government in there, and it's just more money for the lawyers who write the bills. ↗

— John Stossel

#better #bills #business #customer #customers

The exposure from 'Iron Chef' has been helpful, but at the end of the day your product and your service determine whether you get customers or not. If people decide to eat out less during a recession, the first restaurants that they will cut out are the ones that don't do a great job. ↗

— Michael Symon

#chef #customers #cut #day #decide

Any business that is looking for new customers needs to understand the Internet and how to market their goods or services through it. ↗

— Eric Lefkofsky

#business #customers #goods #how #internet

What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done. ↗

— Tim O'Reilly

#create #customers #does #done #job

Marketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make. It is the art of creating genuine customer value. ↗

— Philip Kotler

#client #customer #marketing #product #value

When you depersonalize abrasive behavior and see it as a call for help you become a catalyst for the best kind of change. ↗

— Marilyn Suttle

#customer-service #inspiration #relationships #self-improvement #business

After each customer interaction, notice if you gave them a “happy to see you” kind of experience. ↗

— Marilyn Suttle

#customer-service #business