#custom

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it. ↗

— John Owen

#course #custom #sense #shame #sinning

Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do. ↗

— Major Owens

#already #anything #children #classroom #exciting

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer. ↗

— Tom Peters

#company #customer #labeled #least #momentarily

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people. ↗

— Tom Peters

#customers #discovered #employees #formula #guests

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality. ↗

— Plato

#also #custom #disgraceful #equality #injustice

But the customer is the final, final filter. What survives the whole process is what people wear. I'm not interested in making clothes that end up in some dusty museum. ↗

— Marc Jacobs

#customer #dusty #end #filter #final

I empathize with women in their high heels so I'll be there in my kilt and T-shirt and I'll walk around all day just to prove that if I can wear the shoes for 36 hours then certainly our customer can wear them. ↗

— Marc Jacobs

#around #certainly #customer #day #empathize

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#chose #chosen #companies #continue #customers

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#built #by the time #customers #get #give

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#been #build #built #computer #customers