#customers

We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There's no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#believe #course #customers #either #go

The best plan now is to have as many bosses as possible. I call it boss diversity. If you work for a company and you have one boss and that boss doesn't like you or wants to get rid of you, you're in trouble. But if you work for yourself, you have lots of bosses, who are your customers, and if a few of them decide they don't like you, that's okay. ↗

— Scott Adams

#boss #bosses #call #company #customers

We also provide a lot of services with our consulting group that allow people to take maximum advantage of the Net economy. Those all seem to resonate with customers and are providing a good strong base going forward. ↗

— Jim Barksdale

#allow #also #base #consulting #customers

Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company. ↗

— Michael LeBoeuf

#because #company #customers #every #greatest

I do my own analysis on the teams I am refereeing. I will know some of the personalities, the players who could be difficult customers in a scrum situation, the ones I am going to have to really work hard on early in the game to get what I want. ↗

— Alan Lewis

#analysis #could #customers #difficult #early

Local businesses have never had a great way to get customers in the door. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#customers #door #get #great #great way

The popularity of Groupon has almost rendered the group-buying element of it obsolete, because we're able to deliver so many customers that the merchants are very happy with even the smallest number that we can provide. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#almost #because #customers #deliver #element

As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions, writing reports. ↗

— Merton Miller

#advising #also #basis #cambridge #company

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people. ↗

— Tom Peters

#customers #discovered #employees #formula #guests

If you fire people, you fire customers. ↗

— Ferdinand Piech

#fire #people #you