Jeff Bezos Quotes
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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.
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The chef can be very innovative, but the decision is made by the customer.
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Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.
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Al Qaeda is closely aligned with the Chechens.
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'Quality' means what will sell and do a customer some good - at least try to.
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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.
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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.
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Broadband gives small businesses the opportunity to broaden their customer base and reduce their overheads through e-commerce platforms.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Follow through with basic values, and remember to provide good customer service.
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Death is my exit strategy. I'll be doing significant customer service only as long as I live.
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You are dealing with a different type of customer. If they are frequent visitors, they often have heightened expectations.
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Dealing with a counter clerk at the phone company who had all the customer service skills of a homicidal sociopath on work release.
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So I think instead of focusing on the competition, focus on the customer.
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It's much harder to provide a great customer service than I would have ever realised. It's much more art than science in some of these other areas and not just about the facts but about how you are conveying them.
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Greatest risk is not development of new product, but development of customers and markets.
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Everyone may have some advise for the RBI. Some may advise, 'Cut your lending rates and raise the deposit rate.' How will a bank function? We take a medium term view. The bank has an 80-year-old history. I don't want to destroy it for a few decisions.
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We ought to take him offshore and dunk him 10 feet underwater and pull him up and ask him What's that all over your face?
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I guess I had that insecurity of missing out on the normal things that everybody else does. With all the traveling I was doing I felt I was leaving something behind.
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If you're long-term oriented, customer interests and shareholder interests are aligned.
