Bob Muglia Quotes
Corporate customers are choosing the Microsoft platform. Microsoft Office, SQL Server and Exchange all reached new highs this quarter, with shipments of all server applications nearly doubling in the past year.
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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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So, always start with a product, always start with a customer, always start with a service and how this product or service will dramatically improve the quality of the life or the work of the customer.
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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 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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I believe a balanced life is essential, and I try to make sure that all of our employees know that and live that way. It's crucial to me as a manager that I help ensure that our employees are as successful as our customers and partners.
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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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Certainly Microsoft is going to be a big force in collaboration applications and we are working with them in that area. But in terms of real-time voice and video-based collaboration, where you have to deal with all the issues associated with a pleasant and easy experience with voice and with video, we think that takes a systems company not just a software company to do it right.
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We've had over 100 calls from kids or parents. We've had 12 informational sessions in all three cities in the past one or two months, so applications are coming in every day. We have 30 spots left to offer in the first class. If people are interested in applying, now is definitely the time.
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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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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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Your customers get better when you do.
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Building a business doesn't mean getting venture capital funding. It means finding customers and making money.
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I want to do stories that inspire people.
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The innovator creates a business where they are making money, even when they sleep.
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If you want your blog to be a business one day, treat it as one today.
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Corporate customers are choosing the Microsoft platform. Microsoft Office, SQL Server and Exchange all reached new highs this quarter, with shipments of all server applications nearly doubling in the past year.
