Bill Gates Quotes

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• Businesses can't afford to react to what their customers want; they need to anticipate their needs.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Want
  • Need
  • Customers

• The Russian customers don't feel very comfortable with online transactions.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Feel
  • Comfortable
  • Customers

• 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.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Time
  • Behavior
  • Customers

• To customers, it's the shirt that matters, not where it's made.

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • Customers
  • Where
  • Matters

• EBay is a great company. There are a lot of good assets and good customers, and the U.S. people love it.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Good
  • Company

• 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.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Work
  • Quality

• 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.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Differences
  • Pay
  • Cost

• The future of communicating with customers rests in engaging with them through every possible channel: phone, e-mail, chat, Web, and social networks. Customers are discussing a company's products and brand in real time. Companies need to join the conversation.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • Time
  • Real
  • Future

• 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.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • World
  • Business
  • Game

• 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.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Live

• 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.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Advertising
  • Customers
  • H&R

• 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.

  

  Brian Perkins
  • Vision
  • Changing
  • Customers

• 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.

  

  John Reed
  • Cities
  • Customers
  • Attractive

• 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.

  

  John Young
  • Build
  • Customers
  • Access

• Focus on how the end-user customers perceive the impact of your innovation - rather than on how you, the innovators, perceive it.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Focus
  • Customers
  • End-user

• 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.

  

  Scott McCloud
  • Customers
  • Comics
  • Nonsense

• Customers want high quality at low prices and they want it now.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Quality
  • Customers
  • Prices

• Customers don't measure you on how hard you tried, they measure you on what you deliver.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Measure
  • Customers
  • Deliver

• Jewel of life, guiding light, heralding a joyous new dawn.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Life
  • Future
  • Light

• The master mind is the mind that thinks what it wants to think, regardless of what circumstances, environment or associations may suggest.

  

  Christian D. Larson
  • Mind
  • Master
  • Wants

• We knew about black holes in other ways, and we knew about neutron stars - well, those are the two things that ultimately got seen.

  

  Rainer Weiss
  • Things
  • Knew
  • Ultimately

• For the brief moments the song lasted, it was pure joy, stirred up from deep within, in that place not a soul can find, not until it comes alive with music and laughter.

  

  Ben Galley
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Song

• I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Worker
  • Compulsive
  • Relaxer

• Your customers get better when you do.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Customers