As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world.
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.
You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business.
The jewelry business is a very very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.
A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.
There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media.
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.
The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
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.
People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'
Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers.
Profit in business comes from repeat customers customers that boast about your project or service and that bring friends with them.
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.
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.
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.
The best interpreter of the law is custom.
Our new attitude is how can we put you in front of our customer.
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.
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.
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.
In grade school I was taught that the United States is a melting pot. People from all over the world come here for freedom and to pursue a better life. They arrive with next to nothing work incredibly hard learn a new language and new customs and in a generation they become an integral part of our amazing nation.
I'm so excited for my first fragrance! I chose to partner with Dots because I love what they do for their customers bringing them the hottest trends in fashion accessories and fragrance at unbelievably low prices. It's amazing!
I'm so accustomed to being alone.
Throughout my whole life as a performer I've never played with a band. I've always played alone so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.