#custom

The purpose of a business is to create customers. ↗

— Sam Wyly

#create #customers #purpose

You want to make sure this particular car is going to please the customer and then you're going to be rewarded with something that is going to please the shareholder. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#customer #going #make #particular #please

I think a lot of politicians, rightfully so, understand that their political futures are tied to how many times people see their names in print. The press is so accustomed to politicians wanting those things, it's a surprise when somebody's like, 'Whatever, I'm not really worried about those things.' ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

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Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don't have to explain ourselves for the most part. ↗

— Paul Graham

#conservative #customers #explain #most #ourselves

Art was carrying me a lot of the time. When you're accustomed to playing with Art, and you play with other drummers, it's as if the bottom dropped out. ↗

— Benny Green

#art #bottom #carrying #dropped #drummers

Well, I've just gotten accustomed to just being in Canada for five and a half months a year. ↗

— Anthony Michael Hall

#being #canada #five #gotten #half

Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom. ↗

— Robert Hall

#apt #authority #custom #enforced #favor

Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#became #boundaries #claiming #colony #each

And also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel better about themselves, their workers feel better, and so do their customers. I think this is equally true in the transnational corporations, but it is harder to express in those situations. ↗

— Paul Hawken

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We also had good software in the key categories and more focus on the gameplaying capability, so more of the marketing effort was targeted at game customers. ↗

— Trip Hawkins

#capability #categories #customers #effort #focus