Famous Quotes & Sayings

Originally, we were a technology consumer, and we would pass through the technology to our customers and we also were an internal user of Sun.

Mark Twain

Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.

The more customers learn about hybrids, the more they want them, ... in many cases, a (modern) diesel can actually deliver better mileage than a hybrid.

Demand for our desktop and server products from enterprise customers was particularly strong this quarter with significant sales and customer momentum from our recently launched server products.

Dell is saving itself some money. Warranty is difficult to quantify because it depends on how much the customer uses it, but there is a warranty cost,

Dell has been kicking butt for a few years in the SMB slice, and HP looks like it is poised to re-join the fray, ... Sun is even selling tons of lower-end SANs into its customer base.

Department stores are not really out of fashion, but they will struggle if they don't provide what customers want.

And that's by design. Stores do not want to lose their loyal shoppers - customers who have a history with a favorite regional department store.

Anything that is good for our customers normally bodes well for John Deere.

Trip Hawkins

SONY have had a graphic workstation business; they understand polygon rendering and have special customers that demand it.

Ten or 12 years ago, dealers wouldn't even talk to me. Today, a lot of them refer cases.They don't know where else to go. Their customers are upset. So the relationship with the dealers isn't that bad.

Sometimes customers reserve a room for one night, but stay for five.

Shai Agassi

Sometimes it was great for the customers, sometimes it wasn't great for the customers.

Rule number one: The customer is always right. Rule number two: If the customer is wrong, see rule number one!

Zach Nelson

Salesforce.com and other CRM solutions would be really useful if they actually had customer data stored. But they only have prospects. There's no way to make a prospect into a customer unless you tie together ERP and CRM.

Save More, Smile More. With that ad, it moves from Wal-Mart smiling at you to the customer smiling.

Q3 is historically a weak quarter. Customer spending held up, though, and Q4 is primed to be a good year-over-year growth story.

Q3 is historically a weak quarter, ... Customer spending held up, though, and Q4 is primed to be a good year-over-year growth story.

Quilters are giving anyway. So it's really nice to give my customers a place to participate.

Dave Lewis

At the end of the day, what's important, and where there's some commonality between senders and receivers of e-mail, is the satisfaction of the recipient. The primary driver of any program like this should be customer satisfaction.

At the end of the day my theory is that not every mobile customer will become a 3G customer.

At the height of the storm, 1.4 million customers were impacted.

Disconnection is really truly a last resort. We make every effort to communicate with our customers . . . to set up a payment arrangement.

Bill Cosby

Did you ever see the customers in health-food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific.

Digital cable, Road Runner (Internet service) and our digital phone prices will remain the same. Sixty-two percent of our single-family home customers won't see any increase in the service.

Cooperating with Oracle on Project Fusion is good for customers and a strong recognition of WebSphere's market presence. We've worked together on J.D. Edwards, PeopleSoft and other similar projects, so we welcome Oracle's Fusion applications on WebSphere.

Matthew Murphy

Customers pretended to be going on holiday on preview day, to try to get the discount in advance, but you could tell they were lying.

Customers prefer to get their solutions from one source.

Customers need solutions that can be effectively managed within the first few minutes of an outbreak or detection of damage occurring.

Customers more and more need a partner who can integrate all these technologies together, and this is one of the foundational elements we want our program to have going forward. But they sometimes need from partners a level of depth, so we wanted to identify the ones that have that level of depth or breadth.

Customers make jokes all the time about taking out a loan to get to work. It's ridiculous, I don't understand why we have to pay such outrageous prices.

Customers like choices. They want to be empowered by what a la carte gives them.

Customers have seen a big increase in digital newspaper and magazine circulation in the past four years. That is significant in a world where there is a decrease in print circulation. Furthermore, circulation is much broader.