#tome

For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting there: I've found my customer, my silhouette, my cut. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#cut #equilibrium #found #getting #i

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#cheaper #customer #demands #doing #educate

You spend ten years of your life being trained to do one thing, and you're being taught to think that it's the most serious thing that anyone could possibly do, and then suddenly you find yourself doing something that in some respects is the epitome of frivolity. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#being #could #doing #epitome #find

As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions, writing reports. ↗

— Merton Miller

#advising #also #basis #cambridge #company

We opened a design center in the South of England last year as part of our strategy for being close to our customers and developing innovative products for exciting new markets. ↗

— David Milne

#center #close #customers #design #developing

I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level. ↗

— Kylie Minogue

#arcade #attention #been #being #being famous

No player can become accustomed to New York's climate in August in a few days. The playing conditions, the courts in New York and France are very different. ↗

— Helen Wills Moody

#august #become #climate #conditions #courts

I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools. ↗

— Robert Moog

#engineer #i #i see #musicians #myself

I am not accustomed to protocol. ↗

— Evo Morales

#am #i #i am #protocol

It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying. ↗

— Rebecca De Mornay

#accustomed #act #anger #crying #cult thing