#customers

This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#computers #customers #details #easy #good

As I said before, a big part of my strategy says - and the management team I think is in agreement with this - we don't have to be out there with a lot of noise all the time. What we need to do is paint a vision for customers, promise them deliverables, and go hit at it. ↗

— Sanjay Kumar

#before #big #customers #go #hit

Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#customers #distance #layers #management #organization

If you're going to say to all the people that you're working with, 'We want you to treat the customers honestly; don't lie and don't cheat,' it is somewhat hypocritical if you're not following the same rules. ↗

— James Sinegal

#customers #following #going #honestly #hypocritical

The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#average #believe #customers #doing #eighty

Sales is a business of relationships, and you must cultivate customers with tenderness and love, like cabbages in winter, even if the customer is an egomaniacal asshole you want to hit with a shovel. ↗

— Max Barry

#business

We need to take excellent care of our customers, and do so at a profit. ↗

— Gerard Arpey

#customers #excellent #need #our #profit

There is no point in launching technology before customers are ready to use it. ↗

— Peter Erskine

#customers #launching #no point #point #ready

We can serve our customers well only if our buying jobs are right. You cannot sell if you haven't ordered wanted goods into your store. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#cannot #customers #goods #haven #into

The KXL pipeline would make it easy and cost effective for oil producers in Canada to transport oil to the Gulf of Mexico where it could be shipped to customers - not just in the United States - but around the world. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#canada #cost #could #customers #easy