Quotes
Quotes about Custom
What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.
The rich adopt novelties and become accustomed to their use. This sets a fashion which others imitate. Once the richer classes have adopted a certain way of living, producers have an incentive to improve the methods of manufacture so that soon it is possible for the poorer classes to follow suit. Thus luxury furthers progress. Innovation "is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public. The luxury today is the necessity of tomorrow." Luxury is the roadmaker of progress: it develops latent needs and makes people discontented. In so far as they think consistently, moralists who condemn luxury must recommend the comparatively desireless existence of the wild life roaming in the woods as the ultimate ideal of civilized life.
The City's reluctance to take a stand on an issue like the British Gas pay row makes a mockery of corporate governance and shareholders' ability to influence annual general meetings. Institutions should be obliged to make public how they vote at such events. They should be obliged to provide customers with a record of how they vote on every kind of issue.
If you don't care, your customer never will.
The 1990s customer expects service to be characterized by fast and efficient computer-based systems.
If you love your customer to death, you can't go wrong.
Everything starts with the customer.
The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.
Above all, we wish to avoid having a dissatisfied customer. We consider our customers a part of our organization, and we want them to feel free to make any criticism they see fit in regard to our merchandise or service. Sell practical, tested merchandise at reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beingsâand they will always come back.
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.
We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want.
Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one customer at a time and take care of each one the best way you can.
The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?.
Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.
Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.
If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper.When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare in the general welfare. Then jealousies between man and man, city and city, province and province, nation and nation, will no longer trouble the world.
If you're not serving the customer, you'd better be serving someone who is.
Make a customer, not a sale.
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.
Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest.
Habit had made the custom. [Lat., Morem fecerat usus.]
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
It hath been an antient custom among them [Hungarians] that none should wear a fether but he who had killed a Turk, to whom onlie yt was lawful to shew the number of his slaine enemys by the number of fethers in his cappe.
For dear is the Emerald Isle of the ocean, Whose daughters are fair as the foam of the wave, Whose sons unaccustom'd to rebel commotion, Tho' joyous, are sober--tho' peaceful, are brave.
Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.
