Quotes and Sayings about Custom
"The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Society, Church, Custom, Importance, Public)
"Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost."
- Felix Adler
(Related: Consideration, Custom, Force, Interest, Meeting, Public)
"The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Culture)
"Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores."
- Bill Alexander
(Related: Force, Intellectuals, Poets, Spain, Workers, Writers)
"The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come."
- Dante Alighieri
(Related: Change, Men)
"Well, developers do want to touch a lot of customers. We have to make our platform very popular in order for them to do that. If we make their jobs easier, then they'll be more likely to stay on the Windows platform."
- Jim Allchin
(Related: Jobs, Order, Popular, Want, Windows)
"We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted."
- Richard V. Allen
(Related: Society, Americans, Habits, Manners)
"One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt."
- Dorothy Allison
(Related: Class, Contempt)
"When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal."
- Saint Ambrose
(Related: Church, Custom, Rome, Scandal, Want)
"Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers."
- Elizabeth Arden
(Related: Repetition, Reputation)
"I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical."
- Giorgio Armani
(Related: Design, Time, People, Virtue)
"Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living."
- Rudolf Arnheim
(Related: American, Country, Living, Treasure)
"We need to take excellent care of our customers, and do so at a profit."
- Gerard Arpey
(Related: Care, Profit)
"We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want."
- Laura Ashley
(Related: Ideas, Want)
"Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up."
- Mary Astell
(Related: Education, Custom, Ignorance, Imitation, Vice)
"Custom is second nature."
- Saint Aurelius Augustine
(Related: Nature, Custom)
"We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that."
- Marcus Aurelius
(Related: Cause, Majority)
"Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself."
- Marcus Aurelius
(Related: Design, People, Actions, Custom, First, Practice)
"Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them."
- Marcus Aurelius
(Related: Change, Nature, Nothing, Universe)
"People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom."
- Francis Bacon
(Related: People, Act, Custom, Learning, Opinions)
"The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate."
- Francis Bacon
(Related: Men, Fortune, Giving, Light, Sky, Stars)
"No one bill will cure the problem of spam. It will take a combined effort of legislation, litigation, enforcement, customer education, and technology solutions."
- David Baker
(Related: Technology, Education, Cure, Customer, Effort, Legislation, Will)
"But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes."
- Mitchell Baker
"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
(Related: Being, Innovation, Reality, World)
"In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally."
- Jim Balsillie
(Related: America, Buying)
"That's the ultimate gratification in any business situation - do customers buy the product? And do they use it and do they come back and buy more of it?"
- Jim Barksdale
(Related: Business)
"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
(Related: People, Consulting, Economy)
"We can provide beta software to our developers in advance of the general public. We can easily link up with external partners, customers, and suppliers."
- Jim Barksdale
(Related: Public, Software)
"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
(Related: Information, Software, World)
"I can't deny that some customers and prospects think it's the key to our future. But it's not. We're certainly supportive of the Dept. of Justice and the 20 states that have brought this action."
- Jim Barksdale
(Related: Action, Future, Justice, Key, states)
"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
(Related: Business, Technology, People, Internet, Talk)
"One of Netscape's main attractions to customers from Day One is that we provide alternatives. And that's cherished by many customers - certainly not all."
- Jim Barksdale
(Related: Day)
"There are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage."
- Joel Barlow
(Related: Being)
"The gun dealer is not only paying these two police officers, but more importantly, the gun dealer has said he will never again sell more than one gun to a customer. This is exactly what we're trying to get the gun industry across the country to do."
- Michael D. Barnes
(Related: Country, Customer, Police, Trying, Will)
"They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers."
- Frederic Bastiat
(Related: Competition, End, Will)
"There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat."
- Mario Batali
(Related: Art, Battle, Customer)
"The biggest threat to McDonald's lies within - and that is us as a company becoming complacent. There are a lot of companies that get fat, dumb and happy and take their eye off the ball and forget about serving customers."
- Charlie Bell
(Related: Company, Dumb, Eye, Forget, Lies)
"So many people are accustomed to written information that you really have to have a few more bells and whistles in this day and age."
- Chris Bell
(Related: Age, People, Bells, Day, Information)
"No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking."
- Ruth Benedict
(Related: Eyes, Man, Thinking, World)
"Not being in tune with your customers is like living in an alternate reality; the way you think your customers feel about your product is not always the same as what your customers really think about your product."
- Bo Bennett
(Related: Being, Living, Reality)
"Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature."
- Paul Berg
(Related: Nature, Science, Breeding, Concern)
"Sam Walton's values are: treat the customer right, take care of your people, be honest in your dealings, pass savings along to the customer, keep things simple, think small, control costs and continuously improve operations."
- Michael Bergdahl
(Related: People, Control, Values, Care, Customer, Right)
"Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored."
- John Berger
(Related: Dogs, Self)
"We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better."
- Jeff Bezos
(Related: Experience, Customer, Day, Guests, Job, Party)
"There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward."
- Jeff Bezos
(Related: Work, Business, Example, Learning)
"If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful."
- Jeff Bezos
(Related: Experience, Word)
"I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen."
- Buffalo Bill
(Related: Government, Life, Thought, People, Idea, Faces, Giving, states, United)
"We will ensure that associates continue to possess unsurpassed product knowledge and maintain their dedication to customer service and respect for their colleagues and for the communities in which they work and live."
- Arthur Blank
(Related: Work, Knowledge, Customer, Dedication, Respect, Service, Will)
"Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don't have a change, you're bored. It's the same with fashion, you know. And that, I suppose, is what style is about."
- Bill Blass
(Related: Change, Eye, Fashion, Style)
"To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing."
- Michael Bolton
(Related: Voice, Wonder)
"Our ports are owned by local governments who are responsible for the ports. It is the Coast Guard and Customs that provide security. The federal government will never outsource our security."
- Kit Bond
(Related: Government, Security, Will)
"The American work ethic is something to be admired. Our workforce, regardless of position, works hard to produce the best product and serve customers to the best of their ability."
- Leonard Boswell
(Related: Work, Ability, American, Work ethic)
"Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers."
- Les Brown
(Related: Family, Goals, Ability, Clients, Pursuit)
"Our community in North Texas is fortunate to have two thriving airports. We serve millions of satisfied customers and employ hundreds of thousands of North Texans. We should not jeopardize that which is working well already."
- Michael Burgess
(Related: Community)
"Custom reconciles us to everything."
- Edmund Burke
(Related: Custom)
"If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing business at all."
- Leo Burnett
(Related: Business, Customer, Writing)
"Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers."
- Samuel Butler
(Related: Morality, Country, Custom, Feeling)
"There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed."
- Albert Camus
(Related: Death, Peace, Heart, Will)
"Salads was a big indicator of that - there was a huge market out there for it. And why not tap it? Some of the things we are doing now around the globe are responding to customers. It's not because some guy sued you."
- Jim Cantalupo
(Related: Now)
"You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business."
- Jim Cantalupo
(Related: Business, Discipline, Customer, Focus)
"I talked about 12 to 18 months, and that's about reaffirming our foundation for sustained growth: getting the discipline back, getting the basics right, getting the customer focus back... so by the end of next year, I hope most of that's in place."
- Jim Cantalupo
(Related: Discipline, Hope, Customer, End, Focus, Months, Right)
"And so if your competitors aren't growing, if there isn't a competitive reason to grow, and you want focus and discipline to add customers to existing stores, you adjust your strategy."
- Jim Cantalupo
(Related: Strategy, Discipline, Focus, Reason, Want)
"But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore."
- Orson Scott Card
(Related: Change, Life, Work, Love, Fun, Now, Teaching, Writing)
"As regards this country, in which protection has always to some extent existed, it is the best customer that England ever had, and our demands upon her grow most steadily and regularly under protection."
- Henry Charles Carey
(Related: Country, Customer, England, Protection)
"More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation."
- Stephen Carter
(Related: Technology, Growth, Competition, Environment, Years)
"No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion."
- Carrie Chapman Catt
(Related: Custom, Law, Opinion, Popular)
"It's sad that we have become so accustomed to bad service that we're shocked when we get good service."
- Neil Cavuto
(Related: Service)
"Some had the custom of receiving the Eucharist daily, some twice a week, some on the Lord's day, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, some only on the Lord's Day."
- Martin Chemnitz
(Related: Custom, Day)
"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
(Related: Act, Custom, Dancing, Man, May, Mind)
"That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom."
- Lydia M. Child
(Related: Change, Women, Custom, Majority)
"The best interpreter of the law is custom."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Related: Custom, Law)
"The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response."
- Karl Von Clausewitz
(Related: Soldiers)
"I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards."
- Richard Cobden
(Related: Compliments, Cowards, English, Name, World)
"Even if someone is already in your market space, ask yourself whether you can approach it from a different angle and thereby secure your own customer base."
- Benjamin Cohen
(Related: Customer, Space)
"The cost of acquiring new customers and maintaining those relationships in an online environment versus bricks and mortar is significant."
- Stephen Cohen
(Related: Environment, Relationships)
"Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds."
- Charles Caleb Colton
(Related: Change, Home, Men, Climate, Country, Nations, Visit)
"We used to speak familiarly of an agent, now do more, who was accustomed to manufacture evidence, and to invent facts in his cases, or at least to alter the aspects of facts to such an extent that they might fairly be viewed as new."
- George Combe
(Related: Facts, Now)
"They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom."
- William Congreve
(Related: Custom, End, Scandal, Tea)
"Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff."
- Scott Cook
(Related: Customer, Focus)
"So I think instead of focusing on the competition, focus on the customer."
- Scott Cook
(Related: Competition, Customer, Focus)
"The meals were served in a large hall, in which Moctezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered with mats and kept very clean."
- Hernando Cortes
"Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art."
- Samuel Daniel
(Related: Art, Nature, Custom, Law)
"Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe."
- Charles Davenport
(Related: People, Custom, Kings, Law)
"I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers."
- Jack Dee
(Related: People, Custom, Drugs, Hate)
"I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women."
- Daniel Defoe
(Related: Women, Thought, Christian, Country, Learning, World)
"The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants."
- Michael Dell
(Related: Design, Selling, Care, Customer, Linux, Windows)
"Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships."
- Michael Dell
(Related: Business, Technology, Customer, Relationships)
"Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them."
- W. Edwards Deming
(Related: Business, Friends, Profit, Project, Service)
"Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer."
- W. Edwards Deming
(Related: Customer, Innovation)
"I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake."
- Rene Descartes
(Related: Dreams, Sleep)
"I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence."
- Bernadette Devlin
(Related: Women, Horses, Silence, Talk)
"I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself."
- Cameron Diaz
(Related: Age, Love, Boys, Care, Comedy, Growing up)
"We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that "thousands" has almost passed out of the dictionary."
- Everett Dirksen
"I definitely think there was some overacting on the part of the customers and the wait staff. The people who came in during the shooting were clearly there to have a moment on television, and that's fine."
- Rocco DiSpirito
(Related: People, Television)
"We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship."
- Daniel Drew
(Related: Marriage, Want)
"The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself."
- Peter Drucker
(Related: Customer, Marketing, Service)
"The purpose of a business is to create a customer."
- Peter Drucker
(Related: Business, Purpose, Customer)
"Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands."
- Peter Drucker
(Related: Power, Trust, Customer, Information, Service)
"Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent."
- Will Durant
(Related: Truth, Custom, Minority)
"As a GM Goodwrench Service Plus dealer, I understand how good service makes a difference to our customers."
- Dale Earnhardt
(Related: Difference, Service)
"There is no point in launching technology before customers are ready to use it."
- Peter Erskine
(Related: Technology)
"New faces have more authority than accustomed ones."
- Euripides
(Related: Authority, Faces)
"Right or wrong, the customer is always right."
- Marshall Field
(Related: Customer, Right, Wrong)
"These are busy times for the Border Patrol, the customs agents, immigration folks; but if we are going to send these agencies to fight a war on drugs, to fight a war against illegal behavior, we have to send them the proper tools."
- Bob Filner
(Related: War, Behavior, Drugs, Fight, Tools)
"Although Customs and Border Protection analyzes cargo and other information to target specific shipments for closer inspection, it still physically inspects only a small fraction of the containers under its purview."
- Mike Fitzpatrick
(Related: Information, Protection)
"Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment."
- Curt Flood
(Related: Environment, May, Treatment)
"It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages."
- Henry Ford
(Related: Money, Customer, Wages)
"Bobby and I went through some old questionnaires about customer requirements for languages, then we compiled a new one and sent it out to a few dozen people we knew."
- James Frank
(Related: People, Customer, Old)
"This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind."
- Jean Froissart
(Related: Home, Custom, Harvest, Law, Wood)
"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."
- Bill Gates
(Related: Learning)
"In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of their little communal gardens stolen by the guards, after they had done all the work; but at the last camp everything was stolen."
- Martha Gellhorn
(Related: Work, Gardens)
"What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe."
- James J. Gibson
(Related: Being)
"We were excited when we sold our first 10 records. I always felt that if we could get the music out there, and if people became accustomed to it, then a substantial number of them would enjoy it."
- Greg Ginn
(Related: Music, People, First)
"When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again."
- Nikki Giovanni
(Related: Skin)
"Because Microsoft seems to sometimes not trust customer choice, they salt XP with all these little gizmos and trap doors to get people to try Microsoft stuff. But the reality is that we're downloading more players than we ever have on a worldwide basis."
- Rob Glaser
(Related: Trust, People, Choice, Customer, Reality)
"Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don't have to explain ourselves for the most part."
- Paul Graham
(Related: Conservative)
"Art was carrying me a lot of the time. When you're accustomed to playing with Art, and you play with other drummers, it's as if the bottom dropped out."
- Benny Green
(Related: Art, Time, Play)
"It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law."
- Pope Gregory VII
(Related: God, Church, Blind, Custom, Discretion, Eye, Help, Law, Spirit)
"If you make the customer a promise... make sure you deliver it."
- Merv Griffin
(Related: Customer, Promise)
"Well, I've just gotten accustomed to just being in Canada for five and a half months a year."
- Anthony Michael Hall
(Related: Being, Canada, Months)
"Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom."
- Robert Hall
(Related: Authority, Custom, Mankind)
"Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them."
- Thomas Hardy
(Related: Argument, Custom, Manners, Morals, Poets)
"Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree."
- Richard Harris
(Related: Marriage, Men, Women, Custom, Eating, Man)
"Our variety is one of the key reasons our customers love us. We continue to provide all of the menu items they love, while also offering new items to try."
- Kenny Harrison
(Related: Love, Key, Variety)
"Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries."
- Albert Bushnell Hart
"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
(Related: Corporations, Right, Want, Workers)
"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
(Related: Effort, Focus, Key, Marketing, Software)
"Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room."
- William Hazlitt
(Related: Custom, Prejudice)
"Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals."
- Jesse Helms
(Related: Government, Society, Choice, Conservatism, Liberals)
"I was with some Vietnamese recently, and some of them were smoking two cigarettes at the same time. That's the kind of customers we need!"
- Jesse Helms
(Related: Time, Smoking)
"A lesser but still fundamental rule of racing is that you properly enter the event. Anyone who doesn't but still insists on running interferes with the paying customers."
- Joe Henderson
(Related: Racing, Running)
"If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own."
- Herodotus
(Related: Men, Examination, World)
"Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth."
- Aaron Hill
(Related: Thoughts, Beliefs, Consequences, Morals)
"Our customers call and e-mail us to say that's how it feels when a Zappos box arrives. And that's how we view this company."
- Tony Hsieh
(Related: Company)
"We asked ourselves what we wanted this company to stand for. We didn't want to just sell shoes. I wasn't even into shoes - but I was passionate about customer service."
- Tony Hsieh
(Related: Company, Customer, Service, Want)
"Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on."
- Kin Hubbard
(Related: Money, Bargain, Customer, Losing)
"Men become accustomed to poison by degrees."
- Victor Hugo
(Related: Men, Poison)
"It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom."
- David Hume
(Related: Life, Custom, Reason)
"Custom is the great guide to human life."
- David Hume
(Related: Life, Custom)
"History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions."
- Thomas Huxley
(Related: History, End, Fate)
"It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions."
- Thomas Huxley
(Related: End, Fate)
"We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning from them."
- Miguel de Icaza
(Related: Learning, Linux)
"DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress."
- Harriet Ann Jacobs
(Related: Family, Children, First, Service, Years)
"Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
- Thomas Jefferson
(Related: Mankind, Right)
"We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live."
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
(Related: Women, Crime, Evil, Houses, Humanity, Victims)
"You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new."
- Steve Jobs
(Related: Time, Want)
"It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now."
- Steve Jobs
(Related: Computer, Now, Want, Years)
"I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better."
- Steve Jobs
(Related: Fun, Trying)
"A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets."
- Steve Jobs
(Related: Belief, Open, Right)
"I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it."
- Eddie Bernice Johnson
(Related: History, People, Country, Voting)
"As the winter set in with its customary Canadian severity the real trouble of the French began. They did not suffer from the cold, but they were dying of scurvy."
- Harry Johnston
(Related: Dying, Trouble, Winter)
"I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom."
- Adam Jones
(Related: Custom)
"The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed."
- Elia Kazan
(Related: Democracy)
"When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again."
- Nikita Khrushchev
(Related: Skin)
"Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable."
- Soren Kierkegaard
(Related: Marriage, Connection, Custom, Tradition, Traditions, Weather, Wind)
"It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure."
- Grenville Kleiser
(Related: Harm, May, Will)
"Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable."
- J. Martin Kohe
(Related: Being, Will)
"Many people do think it's naive to improvise in front of paying customers. I'm not saying one way is better than another."
- Lee Konitz
(Related: People, Saying)
"Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads."
- Fritz Kreisler
(Related: Men, Circumstances, Exhaustion, Nerves)
"We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it."
- Ray Kroc
(Related: Food, Love, People, Day, Want)
"If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours."
- Ray Kroc
(Related: Love, Success, Work, Money, Customer, First, Will)
"The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror."
- Peter Kropotkin
(Related: Men, Society, Law, Minority, Terror)
"One, we committed to put about 650 people in the field to focus totally on customer satisfaction."
- Sanjay Kumar
(Related: People, Customer, Focus, Satisfaction)
"Companies are starting to measure how effective their customer service is and trying to understand what they can do to improve the customer service process."
- Sanjay Kumar
(Related: Customer, Measure, Service, Trying)
"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
(Related: Time, Strategy, Management, Vision, Agreement, Promise)
"That's a very critical phase in customer service because you can start to really understand what part of customer service has value to customers and what part is bothering customers."
- Sanjay Kumar
(Related: Customer, Service, Value)
"Some story appears in some newspaper that says that somebody said X, Y, and Z, and a customer says, I don't understand what they're talking about - we're running that product, we've been using it for five years, what are they talking about?"
- Sanjay Kumar
(Related: Customer, Running, Talking, Years)
"So in 2000, when we changed the business model and started really focusing on that triangle and putting the customer in the center, we decided we should hold off - we've done enough consolidation; we've got enough critical mass."
- Sanjay Kumar
(Related: Business, Customer)
"So if you're a customer today, the same person who came in to demonstrate the technology for you and helped you architect the solution before you bought it is likely going to be leading the team to help you do the implementation."
- Sanjay Kumar
(Related: Technology, Customer, Help, Leading, Solution, Today)
"So far, Indian companies have focused more on customer application. This needs to shift to packaged software for sectors such as banking and financial services."
- Sanjay Kumar
(Related: Financial, Customer, Needs, Software)
"As long as my pictures go into theaters and we ask people to pay to see what I do on the screen, I should not object if customers want to know what kind of man I am."
- Alan Ladd
(Related: People, Man, Want)
"We're both accustomed to being the center of attention. We're both accustomed to being spoiled by the people around us. And we don't expect to have to compete with somebody for all of that."
- Jim Lampley
(Related: People, Attention, Being)
"When you stop talking, you've lost your customer. When you turn your back, you've lost her."
- Estee Lauder
(Related: Customer, Talking)
"I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness."
- Johann Kaspar Lavater
(Related: Faith, Boldness, Giving, Humanity)
"Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt."
- Emma Lazarus
(Related: Language, Nationality)
"Treat your customers like lifetime partners."
- Michael LeBoeuf
"A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all."
- Michael LeBoeuf
(Related: Business, Strategy, Customer)
"Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company."
- Michael LeBoeuf
(Related: Company)
"Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them."
- Tim Berners Lee
(Related: Control, Being, Problems)
"I've gone through back surgery a couple times, and of course, my radiation treatments for six weeks got me to the point where I was not able to play at the level that I was accustomed to."
- Mario Lemieux
(Related: Play)
"I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past."
- Mario Lemieux
(Related: Past, Play)
"Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing."
- Vladimir Lenin
(Related: Socialism, Will)
"Firms need to ensure that their ability to provide effective customer service keeps pace with their growth. If you're marketing your firm to new customers, you better be able to provide them service when they do business with you."
- Arthur Levitt
(Related: Business, Growth, Ability, Customer, Marketing, Service)
"People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'"
- Sinclair Lewis
(Related: People, Customer, Will)
"There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media."
- Rush Limbaugh
(Related: Business, Customer, Media, Wrong)
"Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach."
- Walter Lippmann
(Related: Custom, Prophecy)
"I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama."
- Lorna Luft
(Related: Life, Drama, Living)
"New Hampshire state government is a big customer for prescription drug companies. Just as businesses do, we should take advantage of the bargaining power we have as a big customer."
- John Lynch
(Related: Government, Power, Customer, State)
"The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views."
- Maimonides
(Related: Man, Opinions, Youth)
"The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one."
- Henry James Sumner Maine
(Related: Law, Order, Remarkable)
"The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people."
- Henry James Sumner Maine
(Related: People, Words)
"Consumers are statistics. Customers are people."
- Stanley Marcus
(Related: People, Statistics)
"The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'"
- Orison Swett Marden
(Related: Business, Customer, Man)
"Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law."
- Alfred Marshall
(Related: Wealth, Custom, Force, Rights, Law, Rest)
"Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it."
- Harriet Martineau
(Related: Help, Laws, May, Observation, Vice)
"Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces."
- Barry McCaffrey
(Related: God)
"This year I hope to introduce legislation that would require Power Administrations to list direct and indirect costs associated with ESA compliance as a line item on customer's power bills."
- Cathy McMorris
(Related: Power, Hope, Customer, Legislation)
"I think it is important also to recognize that our Customs border protection officers who secure our borders and conduct inspections of people in vehicles and cargo are also facing staffing shortages."
- Kendrick Meek
(Related: People, Protection)
"We wouldn't turn over our customs service or our border patrol to a foreign government. We shouldn't turn over the ports of the United States, either."
- Robert Menendez
(Related: Government, Service, states, United)
"Our multiaccess approach will make the life of the customer simpler."
- Jean-Marie Messier
(Related: Life, Customer, Will)
"Vivendi will be one of the very few top communications groups of the Internet age. We will have customers all over the globe, providing services through all kinds of technology."
- Jean-Marie Messier
(Related: Technology, Age, Internet, Will)
"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home."
- James A. Michener
(Related: Home, Religion, Food, People, Fear)
"The tide of immigration in Canada has not been as great as along our frontier. They have been able to allow the Indians to live as Indians, which we have not, and do not attempt to force upon them the customs which are distasteful to them."
- Nelson A. Miles
(Related: Canada, Force)
"The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement."
- John Stuart Mill
(Related: Custom)
"What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it."
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
(Related: Customer, Fact, Needs)
"Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm."
- Henry Miller
(Related: Beliefs, Ethics, Laws)
"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
(Related: Company, Decisions, Economics, Writing)
"I don't like people who take drugs... Customs men for example."
- Mick Miller
(Related: Men, People, Drugs, Example)
"I don't really like to talk specifically about customers by name - but we work with nearly all the leading manufacturers of consumer products worldwide and at quite a detailed engineering level."
- David Milne
(Related: Work, Engineering, Leading, Name, Talk)
"We opened a design center in the South of England last year as part of our strategy for being close to our customers and developing innovative products for exciting new markets."
- David Milne
(Related: Design, Strategy, Being, England)
"I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level."
- Kylie Minogue
(Related: Attention, Being, Famous, Months, Years)
"The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom."
- Michel de Montaigne
(Related: Custom, Laws, World)
"No player can become accustomed to New York's climate in August in a few days. The playing conditions, the courts in New York and France are very different."
- Helen Wills Moody
(Related: Climate, France)
"I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools."
- Robert Moog
(Related: Musicians, Tools)
"Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future."
- Alberto Moravia
(Related: Future, Ideals, Inheritance, Laws, Obligation)
"It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying."
- Rebecca De Mornay
(Related: Anger, Men, Women, People, Act)
"In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well."
- Edmund S. Muskie
(Related: Anger, Exaggeration)
"And, of course, customers really need to feel safe and are seeking reassurance when they fly."
- David Neeleman
(Related: Reassurance)
"It's so important to experience what your customers are experiencing and listen to their suggestions."
- David Neeleman
(Related: Experience)
"Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base."
- Gavin Newsom
(Related: Business, Books, Building, Company, Customer, Meeting)
"Am I an Apple bigot? No. I can critique their products and their customer service philosophy. But overall, they do better than any other player."
- Donald Norman
(Related: Customer, Philosophy, Service)
"It puts the provider in a situation of looking for ways to have someone else pick up a piece of the cost. As a result, every customer who has insurance ends up paying a 'hidden premium.' It simply adds to the health care cost burden."
- David Obey
(Related: Health, Burden, Care, Customer, Result)
"Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers."
- Flannery O'Connor
(Related: Losing, Manners, Will, Writers)
"What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done."
- Tim O'Reilly
(Related: Technology, Job, Want)
"Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls."
- Rudolf Otto
(Related: Eyes, Light, Mythology)
"Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit."
- Ovid
(Related: Habit, Custom, Nothing)
"The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it."
- John Owen
(Related: Custom, Sense, Shame, World)
"Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do."
- Major Owens
(Related: Children, Classroom, World)
"Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?"
- Blaise Pascal
(Related: Nature, Custom, Principles)
"Courteous treatment will make a customer a walking advertisement."
- James Cash Penney
(Related: Customer, Treatment, Walking, Will)
"The well-satisfied customer will bring the repeat sale that counts."
- James Cash Penney
(Related: Customer, Will)
"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
(Related: Buying, Jobs, Right)
"I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier."
- James Cash Penney
(Related: Trust, Customer, Want)
"Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships."
- Ross Perot
(Related: Business, Deals, Engineering, Relationships, Service)
"Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers."
- Ross Perot
(Related: Time, Talking)
"All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer."
- Tom Peters
(Related: Business, Success, Company, Customer)
"The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people."
- Tom Peters
(Related: People, Successful, Employees, Formula, Guests, Magic)
"If you fire people, you fire customers."
- Ferdinand Piech
(Related: People, Fire)
"Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality."
- Plato
(Related: Equality, Nature, Custom, Injustice)
"Laws are subordinate to custom."
- Titus Maccius Plautus
(Related: Custom, Laws)
"Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature."
- Marcus V. Pollio
(Related: Nature, Work, Consistency, Circumstance, Custom, Detail)
"I'd just like to be treated like a regular customer."
- Elvis Presley
(Related: Customer)
"If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it."
- Manuel Puig
(Related: Books, Information, Mind, Reading)
"I have always felt that public, commercial and community organisations should be as open as possible about their affairs. They need to be accountable to their owners, their customers, their members and communities and other interest groups."
- Laisenia Qarase
(Related: Community, Interest, Open, Public)
"A tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and customs, from which the first Christians had recoiled."
- Robert Rainy
(Related: Life, Christian, Actions, First, Occupations, Profession)
"As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product."
- Jef Raskin
(Related: Customer)
"He or she must be successful in economic terms, but always within an ethical framework. Whether his or her constituency is a corporation and its shareholders or the customers in a small and privately held business, his or her first responsibility is to serve that constituency."
- Lee R. Raymond
(Related: Business, Successful, First, Responsibility)
"We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is."
- Oscar de la Renta
(Related: Women, Individuality, Want)
"All the papers contained nothing but fantastic stories about the war. However, for several months we had been accustomed to war talk. We had so often packed our service trunks that the whole thing had become tedious."
- Manfred von Richthofen
(Related: War, Months, Nothing, Service, Talk)
"It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad."
- Manfred von Richthofen
"You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped."
- Alan Rickman
"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Disguise, End)
"Intel's still our main partner. We have not announced anything with AMD and don't have anything planned, but we're constantly being aware to make sure our customers get the best technology."
- Kevin Rollins
(Related: Technology, Being)
"And our size: The company this year is going to be close to $50 billion, so if that's the case and you can continue to grow that fast, I would rather put my energies to solving customer problems and growing our business than worrying about integrating and laying people off."
- Kevin Rollins
(Related: Business, People, Company, Customer, Problems)
"In marketing I've seen only one strategy that can't miss - and that is to market to your best customers first, your best prospects second and the rest of the world last."
- John Romero
(Related: Strategy, First, Marketing, Rest, World)
"Pager companies are very much looking to provide new services to help them regain some of their customer base."
- David Rose
(Related: Customer, Help)
"Customers want good value, but they care more than ever how food and clothing products are made."
- Stuart Rose
(Related: Food, Care, Value, Want)
"Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well."
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
(Related: Custom, Will)
"A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little "personal characteristics.""
- Helen Rowland
(Related: Thought, Faults, Man, Will)
"Reduce the layers of management. They put distance between the top of an organization and the customers."
- Donald Rumsfeld
(Related: Management)
"A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Related: Civilization, Knowledge, Beliefs, Logic, Man, Open)
"No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole and only aim is to be able to establish a historical fact, on which I disagree with some eminent historians and geographers."
- Heinrich Schliemann
(Related: Work, Fact, Historians, Research)
"Last year, customs officials screened only five percent of the 11 million cargo containers entering the United States. That rate is both unacceptable and dangerous to our national and economic interests."
- Allyson Schwartz
(Related: states, United)
"Our customer base is not necessarily a leader, an early adopter."
- Lee Scott
(Related: Leader, Customer)
"We want to set a tone going into our fiscal year that starts Feb. 1, that Wal-Mart Stores is going to be aggressive in taking care of customers, taking care of our associates, communications and merchandising."
- Lee Scott
(Related: Care, Want)
"If we take care of the customers and associates and grow the business, Wall Street will be pleased."
- Lee Scott
(Related: Business, Care, Will)
"Followers are the customers of the Higher Ground Leader, who strives to meet or exceed the outer and inner needs of followers."
- Lance Secretan
(Related: Leader, Followers, Needs)
"To me, the excitement is in ordering a fine shotgun, going through the process that everybody who has bought one has gone through for 100 years. You order it, you make a significant down payment, and then you wait three or four years for the gun to be custom-made for you."
- Tom Selleck
(Related: Custom, Excitement, Order, Years)
"Our new attitude is how can we put you in front of our customer."
- Terry Semel
(Related: Attitude, Customer)
"Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time."
- Moshe Sharett
(Related: Time, People, Army, Blood, Freedom, Giving)
"I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I'm using for locations, and interviewing the people who live there. I've visited over 90 countries thus far."
- Sidney Sheldon
(Related: Time, People, Countries)
"I think that's because believable action is based on authenticity, and accuracy is very important to me. I always spend time researching my novels, exploring the customs and attitudes of the county I'm using for their setting."
- Sidney Sheldon
(Related: Time, Action, Accuracy)
"The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence."
- Adam Smith
(Related: Fear, Discipline, Losing)
"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
(Related: People, Fact, Job, Media, Profit, Television)
"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
(Related: Work, First, Wage)
"We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit."
- William Robertson Smith
(Related: Men, Religion, God, Idea, Nation, Religious)
"But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches."
- William Robertson Smith
(Related: Common sense, Custom, Facts, Myth, Philosophy, Religious, Ritual)
"At a car dealership, the person who sells the car is the hero, and also gets the commission. But if the mechanics don't service that car well, the customer won't return."
- Roger Staubach
(Related: Car, Customer, Service)
"There are a lot of people who touch the customer."
- Roger Staubach
(Related: People, Customer)
"In the commercial real estate business, brokers spearhead major accounts. But they wouldn't have customers without the people who oversee construction."
- Roger Staubach
(Related: Business, People)
"I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?"
- John Steinbeck
(Related: Life, Guilt, Sense)
"You must never actually cheat the customer, even if you can. You must make her happy and satisfied, so she will come back."
- Alexander Turney Stewart
(Related: Customer, Will)
"Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners."
- Jimmy Stewart
"And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties."
- James Stockdale
(Related: Laws, Traditions)
"Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior."
- Charles Sturt
(Related: People, Communication, Kindness, Now, Patience, Will)
"Custom adapts itself to expediency."
- Tacitus
(Related: Custom, Expediency)
"If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice."
- Lewis Tappan
(Related: People, Custom, Excitement, March, Will)
"Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to."
- William Temple
(Related: Men, Authority, Custom, Man, Nothing)
"Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul."
- Saint Teresa
(Related: Love, Soul)
"It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and they'll keep coming back."
- Dave Thomas
(Related: Food, Value)
"What we are seeing now is customers shifting their attention from security products like firewalls and intrusion sensors, to the policies that need to be in place, and the technologies that help them enforce policy compliance."
- John W. Thompson
(Related: Policy, Attention, Help, Now, Security)
"Yet, Puerto Rico's economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even though the island has been within the national borders, political system and customs territory of the U.S. for a century."
- Dick Thornburgh
(Related: Nation, Rest, State)
"Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature."
- Edward Thorndike
(Related: Nature, Power, Ideas, Ability, Events, Intellect, Learning)
"Even military ministers have no more than a certain amount of control. It is customary that they have the right and the power to participate, from a political and military point of view, in the planning of actual operations."
- Hideki Tojo
(Related: Power, Control, Military, Planning, Right)
"The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux."
- Linus Torvalds
(Related: Linux)
"Your company's most valuable asset is how it is known to its customers."
- Brian Tracy
(Related: Company)
"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves."
- Leon Trotsky
(Related: Life, People, Character, Strength)
"Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art."
- John Updike
(Related: Art, Change, People, Facts)
"It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them."
- Alfred Russel Wallace
(Related: History, Animals, Custom, Habits, Writers)
"There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else."
- Sam Walton
(Related: Money, Boss, Company, Customer, Fire)
"Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community."
- Sam Walton
(Related: Values, Vision, Community, Support)
"Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled."
- John Wanamaker
(Related: Advertising, Customer, Deception, Effect)
"When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king."
- John Wanamaker
(Related: Customer, Forget)
"The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer."
- Thomas J. Watson
(Related: Power, Trust, Building, Customer)
"What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers."
- Vivienne Westwood
(Related: Idea)
"This merger is a logical next step that creates substantial value for customers and stockholders of both AT&T and BellSouth. It will benefit customers through new services and expanded service capabilities."
- Edward Whitacre, Jr.
(Related: Service, Value, Will)
"The first step in exceeding your customer's expectations is to know those expectations."
- Roy H. Williams
(Related: Customer, Expectations, First)
"In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them."
- Carter G. Woodson
(Related: Democracy, Majority, Want)
"Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness."
- Fred Woodworth
(Related: Government, Trust, Behavior, Evil, Helpfulness, Responsibility)
"Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody."
- Florenz Ziegfeld
(Related: Funny, Money, Comedians)
"Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business."
- Zig Ziglar
(Related: Business, Opportunity, Complaining, Customer, Managers, Statistics)
"It's a growing trend. Viewers are our customers, but so are advertisers. And advertisers want different ways to reach our viewers."
- Jeff Zucker
(Related: Want)