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

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

  

  Chris Smith
  • Different
  • Customer
  • Dealing

• 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
  • Customer
  • Dealing
  • Phone Company

• So I think instead of focusing on the competition, focus on the customer.

  

  Scott Cook
  • Competition
  • Customer
  • Focusing

• Businesses are interacting with consumers to socialize rather than learn about customer expectations to in turn, deliver tangible value, improve product experiences, and invest in long-term relationships.

  

  Brian Solis
  • Relationships
  • Consumers
  • Businesses

• Our customer is the person whose household income is under $100,000, which is the majority of Americans. We created Acorns from the ground up to serve their best interests. We started with micro-investing, which allows them to invest their spare change. Once they get more engaged they can set recurring investments - $5 a day, $5 a week, for instance - whatever works for them.

  

  Noah Kerner
  • Interests
  • Customer
  • Investing

• If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • Black
  • Born

• Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Sweet
  • Patience
  • Bitter

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

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Customer
  • Aligned
  • Shareholder