An aphorism is nothing else but the slightest
QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON CUSTOM
We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want.
Laura Ashley (1925-, Welsh fashion designer)
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626, British philosopher, essayist, statesman)
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626, British philosopher, essayist, statesman)
Make a customer, not a sale.
Katherine Barchetti (American clothing retailer)
Look through your customer's eyes. Are you the solution provider or part of the problem?
Marlene Blaszczyk
Custom reconciles us to everything.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797, British political writer, statesman)
Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one customer at a time and take care of each one the best way you can.
Gary Comer (American businessman, founder of Land's End)
The 1990s customer expects service to be characterized by fast and efficient computer-based systems.
Steve Cuthbert (British director general of the Chartered Institute of Marketing)
The 1990s customer expects service to be characterized by fast and efficient computer-based systems.
Steve Cuthbert (British director general of the Chartered Institute of Marketing)
Custom, that unwritten law, by which the people keep even kings in awe.
Charles Davenport
Doing a great job and not meeting the customer's objectives is as useless as doing a poor job within the customer's objectives.
Thomas Faranda
Everything starts with the customer.
Lou Gerstner (1942-, American business executive, chairman of IBM)
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928, British novelist, poet)
Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830, British essayist)
Customs form us all. Our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs are consequences of our place of birth.
Aaron Hill (1685-1750, British dramatist)
Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.
David Hume (1711-1776, Scottish philosopher, historian)
Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it.
Carl Jung (1875-1961, Swiss psychiatrist)
A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.
Michael LeBoeuf
Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.
Michael LeBoeuf
Treat your customers like lifetime partners.
Michael LeBoeuf
Treat your customers like lifetime partners.
Michael LeBoeuf
A customer who complains is my best friend.
Stew Leonard (American businessman)
The golden rule for every business man is this: "Put yourself in your customer's place."
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924, American author, founder of Success Magazine)
Motivate them, train them, care about them and make winners out of them...we know that if we treat our employees correctly, they'll treat the customers right. And if customers are treated right, they'll come back.
J. Marriot Jr. (American businessman)
Always think of your customers as suppliers first. Work closely with them, so they can supply you with the information you need to supply them with the right products and services.
Susan Marthaller
Be it furniture, clothes, or health care, many industries today are marketing nothing more than commodities -- no more, no less. What will make the difference in the long run is the care and feeding of customers.
Micheal Mescon
Be it furniture, clothes, or health care, many industries today are marketing nothing more than commodities -- no more, no less. What will make the difference in the long run is the care and feeding of customers.
Micheal Mescon
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873, British philosopher, economist)
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne (1533-1592, French philosopher, essayist)
Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
Ovid (BC 43-18 AD, Roman poet)
Laws are subordinate to custom.
Titus Maccius Plautus (BC 254-184, Roman comic poet)
Custom and law are sisters.
Czechoslovakian Proverb (Sayings of Czech origin)
Each country's customs are different, just as each meadow's grass is different.
Mongolian Proverb
Every community has its own customs and traditions.
Philipino Proverb
Custom is stronger than law.
Russian Proverb (Sayings of Russian origin)
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
Ayn Rand (1905-1982, Russian philosopher, author, "Atlas Shrugged")
Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
The only way to know how customers see your business is to look at it through their eyes.
Daniel R. Scroggin (American business executive, CEO of TGI Friday's Inc.)
The empire of custom is most mighty.
Publilius Syrus (85 BC- 43BC, Roman writer)
Custom is a tyrant.
Author Unknown
If we don't take care of the customer, somebody else will.
Author Unknown
It is not enough to give the customer excellent service. You must subtly make him aware of the great service he is getting.
Author Unknown
People do more from custom than from reason.
Author Unknown
The customer is our reason for being here.
Author Unknown
The customer is the final inspector.
Author Unknown
To my customer: I may not have the answer, but I'll find it. I may not have the time, but I'll make it. I may not be the biggest, but I'll be the most committed to your success.
Author Unknown
When handling a customers complaint, remember: If you can't fix it, don't drop it.
Author Unknown
Your customers will get better when you do.
Author Unknown
Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
John Updike (1932-, American novelist, critic)
There is only one boss -- the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
Sam Walton (1918-1992, American businessman, founder of Wal-mart)
Revolve your world around the customer and more customers will revolve around you.
Heather Williams
There are only two ways to get a new customer: 1. solicit a new customer any way you can. 2. Take good care of your present customers, so they don't become someone else's new customers.
Ed Zeitz
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