Barry Nalebuff Quotes
Only recently have people begun to recognise that working with suppliers is just as important as listening to customers.

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Businesses can't afford to react to what their customers want; they need to anticipate their needs.
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The Russian customers don't feel very comfortable with online transactions.
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The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior.
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To customers, it's the shirt that matters, not where it's made.
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EBay is a great company. There are a lot of good assets and good customers, and the U.S. people love it.
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Your customer is anyone who depends on you, or who you depend on for success.
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Demonstrate to your customer the difference between price and cost. The price is what it takes to purchase the item. The cost is the amount the customer eventually pays. They are not the same.
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I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.
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I don't look at business as a zero-sum game. I don't. I've never seen it play out that way in our industry, and I think you innovate and you add value, deliver value back to customers, and you get value back from the world.
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H&R Block is a company that has been advertising itself quite consistently as being in your corner. I think it is fair to say that they have not been in your corner but have been putting customers in the corner instead.
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The media landscape around the world, and the marketing landscape in particular, are radically changing at an incredible pace. Bob and his gang at R/GA have helped bring a vision of what the future is and what the possibilities are in reaching our patients and our customers.
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This merger is immensely attractive to us, because there was no overlap in customers or core competencies. We are now able to invest in more cities by increasing staff, sales and services.
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Our customers consist of some of the largest financial services firms in the world. These organizations must be able to implement strict access controls to the massive amounts of sensitive data and information they store. Oracle Database Vault provides a strong foundation to build these controls without significantly impacting the performance of the application or database.
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Focus on how the end-user customers perceive the impact of your innovation - rather than on how you, the innovators, perceive it.
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Our customers want to give us more business and the key for us is to manage growing volumes properly.
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The idea that comics stores, distributors and publishers simply 'give the customers what they want' is nonsense. What the customers wanted they didn't get - and they left.
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Customers don't measure you on how hard you tried, they measure you on what you deliver.
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I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.
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The Web is not a prize to be won, and Mr. Ballmer's attitude is deplorable in the light of what the Web means to the world, to users, to designers and developers, and - to put it into Microsoft parlance - customers.
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I've figured out the secret. Your mind is your power; you have to work with your mind and work with your own thoughts about your own life. If you spend so much time thinking, "This industry is male-dominated. It's sexist. It's this. It's that," then that's what the picture will always be. I remember when I was coming up, I didn't have those thoughts. My mom told me I could be whatever I wanted to be and I could be as bright of a star as I was meant to be. So, that's where I put all of my focus and my thought...into what I could do. And I carry that with me now.
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I'm pretty in tune with everything that happens on the PGA TOUR. Jordan Spieth is my guy. I love watching him play.
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Love is giving someone what they need most, when they deserve it least, at great personal cost to yourself.
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Only recently have people begun to recognise that working with suppliers is just as important as listening to customers.