Jeff Bezos Quotes

If you're long-term oriented, customer interests and shareholder interests are aligned.

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• Classic cable TV may have hit its peak, but it's still a huge force, and the streaming apps of many cable networks still require you to authenticate that you're a paying cable customer every time you want to use a new such TV app.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Time
  • May
  • Want

• The chef can be very innovative, but the decision is made by the customer.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Decision
  • Customer
  • Chef

• Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Want
  • Expectations
  • Customer

• Al Qaeda is closely aligned with the Chechens.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Closely
  • Aligned
  • Qaeda

• 'Quality' means what will sell and do a customer some good - at least try to.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Good
  • Quality
  • Customer

• It turns out that CVS is one of about 40 merchants in a consortium that formed in 2011 to develop their own mobile-phone-based payment system. The consortium, called the Merchant Customer Exchange, or MCX, is in large part all about eliminating, or at least reducing, the fees banks charge retailers for swiping credit cards.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Credit
  • Cards
  • Customer

• I've never been a waitress, hostess, bartender or any of the typical side jobs you'd expect an actor to have. This is partly because I've always been afraid of dropping plates on customer's heads.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Always
  • Never
  • Customer

• Broadband gives small businesses the opportunity to broaden their customer base and reduce their overheads through e-commerce platforms.

  

  Hamadoun Toure
  • Opportunity
  • Small
  • Customer

• Wendy's has become a 'Pandora's Box' of shareholder value. We think this could ultimately result in deeper and quicker cost cuts at the core Wendy's brand.

  

  Larry Miller
  • Value
  • Pandora's box
  • Shareholder

• I guess that's one achievement I'm really proud of. Saving Chrysler was more than jobs, more than shareholder value. Saving Chrysler was a good idea for the whole country.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Good
  • Country
  • Proud

• The Russians right now require a customer coming in and spending about six months or so in Russia and they have to learn some Russian. They have to learn some critical words so they can, in an emergency, at least have minimum communication with the Russian commander of the Soyuz. They also have to learn systems and I think this just evolved that way. They just thought, what is the minimum set of things we think we can train someone to be more or less competent in our systems? And so that's what these guys go through. So, it's not just like buying a ticket and getting on an airliner.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Words
  • Communication
  • Customer

• For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting there: I've found my customer, my silhouette, my cut.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Time
  • Long
  • Perfect

• As we talk about devices, you should never forget that behind every one there is a person - a customer. It“s not the Internet of Things, but the Internet of People - of customers. We are moving to one-to-one relationships.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • People
  • Moving
  • Internet

• Follow through with basic values, and remember to provide good customer service.

  

  Craig Newmark
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Service

• Death is my exit strategy. I'll be doing significant customer service only as long as I live.

  

  Craig Newmark
  • Long
  • Live
  • Death

• They have the highest customer satisfaction that I've seen.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Satisfaction
  • Customer

• You are dealing with a different type of customer. If they are frequent visitors, they often have heightened expectations.

  

  Chris Smith
  • Different
  • Dealing
  • Customer

• Dealing with a counter clerk at the phone company who had all the customer service skills of a homicidal sociopath on work release.

  

  Jasmine Cresswell
  • Dealing
  • Customer
  • Phone Company

• We're not competitor obsessed, we're customer obsessed. We start with the customer and we work backwards.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Customer
  • Competitor
  • Work backwards

• I know that when I'm looking better and I'm eating right, I also feel better.

  

  Dania Ramirez
  • Better
  • Eating

• If Michael Bisping ever addresses me in a public comment again, I will bury him where he stands.

  

  Chael Sonnen
  • Comment
  • Addresses

• It doesn't matter if you're sad or hung-over or lazy or tired - a workout will get your endorphins pumping, and you'll feel like a new person almost instantly.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Sad
  • Tired
  • Lazy

• When I am at a dinner table, I love to ask everybody, 'How long do you think our species might last?' I've read that the average age of a species, of any species, is about two million years. Is it possible we can have an average life span as a species? And do you picture us two million years more or a million and a half years, or 5,000?

  

  Alan Alda
  • Life
  • Long
  • Age

• If you're long-term oriented, customer interests and shareholder interests are aligned.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Customer
  • Aligned
  • Shareholder