#custom

Human nature will not flourish, anymore than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil.my children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#nature

Custom is second nature. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#nature #second

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#change #come #customs #fashions #go

In 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the cost of a customer running a basic Internet application was approximately $150,000 a month. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#approximately #basic #ben #ceo #cloud

I don't really like to talk specifically about customers by name - but we work with nearly all the leading manufacturers of consumer products worldwide and at quite a detailed engineering level. ↗

— David Milne

#consumer #customers #detailed #engineering #i

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#act #custom #generally #inclinations #ingrained

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#customs #discerned #faculties #fortunate #fortune

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. ↗

— Mary Astell

#education #foundation #ignorance #imitation #lay

The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#customer #fits #him #itself #know