#custom

This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind. ↗

— Jean Froissart

#barns #bound #carry #collect #corn

Some story appears in some newspaper that says that somebody said X, Y, and Z, and a customer says, I don't understand what they're talking about - we're running that product, we've been using it for five years, what are they talking about? ↗

— Sanjay Kumar

#appears #been #customer #five #i

That's a very critical phase in customer service because you can start to really understand what part of customer service has value to customers and what part is bothering customers. ↗

— Sanjay Kumar

#bothering #critical #customer #customer service #customers

I believe my customer knows her style and knows how to mix and match your style. ↗

— Daisy Fuentes

#customer #her #how #i #i believe

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#always #course #custom #opposite #take

It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law. ↗

— Pope Gregory VII

#blind eye #church #custom #discretion #eye

If you make the customer a promise... make sure you deliver it. ↗

— Merv Griffin

#deliver #make #promise #sure #you

As the winter set in with its customary Canadian severity the real trouble of the French began. They did not suffer from the cold, but they were dying of scurvy. ↗

— Harry Johnston

#canadian #cold #customary #did #dying

The best plan now is to have as many bosses as possible. I call it boss diversity. If you work for a company and you have one boss and that boss doesn't like you or wants to get rid of you, you're in trouble. But if you work for yourself, you have lots of bosses, who are your customers, and if a few of them decide they don't like you, that's okay. ↗

— Scott Adams

#boss #bosses #call #company #customers

Apple is a wonderful company for its customers and investors. So, too, Pixar. (NeXT, not so much...) But Apple is also an engine of misery for its subcontracted Chinese workers. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#apple #chinese #company #customers #engine