Customer Preference Quotes

Personally, I'm a fan of valets and managers.

I hate when dealers talk to me. I love dealers - they're some of our favorite people in the art world. But I hate if they do a sales pitch on me. I can't stand it.

People buy products if they're better.

Wealth comes from successful individual efforts to please one's fellow man ... that's what competition is all about: "outpleasing" your competitors to win over the consumers.

My view is that everything begins with the customer. If you know the customer, then you can match the merchandise and then you can market it. The marketing is kind of the icing. The foundation is the cake. That's the merchandise. Then the question is, "Do the customers want cake, or do they want cupcakes or donuts. What is it?"

Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.

If there is any one skill that every professional must learn, it is how to brand himself or herself in the marketplace. A brand provides certainty to customers and lets them know that what they're getting is the best. People don't like to make decisions. Once we decide, for example, the kind of toothpaste we prefer, rarely do we change. We have to make so many decisions every day in our lives that most of us are overwhelmed.

For some reason, everyone says "fashion is responsible for skinny models." I don't believe that myself. I believe consumers dictate commercial success and trends in a capitalistic society. So I believe if consumers wanted to see - like, who decided that Barney the Dinosaur was going to be a million-dollar industry?

People will go to clean theaters; they don't like to go to dirty theaters.

I'm shocked to find out we still sell something people want.

Find out where the people want to go, then hustle yourself around in front of them.

We are really pleased with our revenues but our goal isn't to make money. It sounds a little flippant, but it's the truth. Our goal and what makes us excited is to make great products. If we are successful people will like them and if we are operationally competent, we will make money.

An election goes on every minute of the business day across the counters of hundreds of thousands of stores and shops where the customers state their preferences and determine which company and which product shall be the leader today and which shall lead tomorrow.

It's better to have a few users love your product than for a lot of users to sort of like it.

The public is not greatly interested in saving a little money on a purchase at the expense of service.

I think right now it's a battle for the mindshare of developers and for the mindshare of customers, and right now iPhone and Android are winning that battle.

Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.

When I was in the restaurant and bar business, I followed a rule, which was that the places that I opened were places that I wanted to go to.

When you go into your customary barber shop, you will wait for the man who gives you a little better shave, a little trimmer hair-cut. Business leaders are looking for the same things in their offices that you look for in the barber shop.

People don't like to be sold, but they love to buy.

If a company has a navigation system or a database or a virtual assistant they like better, Microsoft will meet them in the middle.

Yogi Berra put it best, "If people don't want to come, we can't stop them."

But the customer is the final, final filter. What survives the whole process is what people wear. I'm not interested in making clothes that end up in some dusty museum.

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

If there is an option to use a real human being and to have a chat with somebody and do your shopping that way, I do try and do that.