The more you
engage with customers the clearer things become and the easier it is to
determine what you should be doing.
John Russell, President, Harley Davidson
John Russell, President, Harley Davidson
Dealing with
people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in
business. Yes, and that is also true if you are a housewife, architect or
engineer. Dale Carnegie
Make your
product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers
buying from them, not you.
Mark Cuban
Mark Cuban
If you do
build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth
is very powerful. Jeff Bezos, CEO Amazon.com
The
interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don’t design it
for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don’t really care, as long as
we’re selling the one the customer wants. Michael Dell
If you want
to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington
In the world
of Internet Customer Service, it’s important to remember your competitor is
only one mouse click away.
Doug Warner
Doug Warner
Know what
your customers want most and what your company does best. Focus on where those
two meet. Kevin Stirtz
Loyal
customers, they don’t just come back, they don’t simply recommend you, they
insist that their friends do business with you. Chip Bell, Founder Chip Bell
Group
Make a
customer, not a sale. Katherine Barchetti
If you do
build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth
is very powerful. Jeff Bezos, CEO Amazon.com
Customer
service is not a department, it’s everyone’s job.
Anonymous
Anonymous
For us, our
most important stakeholder is not our stockholders, it is our customers. We’re
in business to serve the needs and desires of our core customer base. John
Mackey
The nature
of any human being, certainly anyone on Wall Street, is ‘the better deal you
give the customer, the worse deal it is for you’.
Bernie Madoff…
Bernie Madoff…
We see our
customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job
every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little
bit better. Jeff Bezos, CEO Amazon.com
You’ve got
to look for a gap, where competitors in a market have grown lazy and lost contact
with the readers or the viewers.
Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch
A customer
is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We
are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose
of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not
doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an
opportunity to do so. Mahatma Gandhi
When people
talk about successful retailers and those that are not so successful, the
customer determines at the end of the day who is successful and for what
reason. Jerry Harvey
It’s a very,
very tough market. So unless you do a really good job, you buy the right
products from the manufacturers, you service the customer, they keep coming
back, they bring their friends in, it’s all about numbers, numbers, numbers. John
Ilhan
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
If you work
just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you
always put the customer first, success will be yours. Ray Krock
I won’t
complain. I just won’t come back
Brown & Williamson Tobacco Ad
Brown & Williamson Tobacco Ad
Customer
service is just a day in, day out ongoing, never ending, unremitting,
persevering, compassionate, type of activity.
Leon Gorman, CEO L.L.Bean
Leon Gorman, CEO L.L.Bean
Every
company’s greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is
no company. Michael LeBoeuf, Author of: How to Win Customers and Keep Them
for Life
Excellent
firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant
change. Tom Peters
Friendly
makes sales – and friendly generates repeat business.
Jeffrey Gitomer
Jeffrey Gitomer
Service, in
short, is not what you do, but who you are. It is a way of living that you need
to bring to everything you do, if you are to bring it to your customer
interactions. Betsy Sanders
Every
contact we have with a customer influences whether or not they’ll come back. We
have to be great every time or we’ll lose them. Kevin Stirtz
Here is a
simple but powerful rule: always give people more than what they expect to get.
Nelson Boswell
In our way
of working, we attach a great deal of importance to humility and honesty; With
respect for human values, we promise to serve our customers with integrity. Azim
Premji
Customers
don’t always know what they want. The decline in coffee-drinking was due to the
fact that most of the coffee people bought was stale and they weren’t enjoying
it. Once they tasted ours and experienced what we call “the third place”.. a
gathering place between home and work where they were treated with respect..
they found we were filling a need they didn’t know they had. Howard Schultz,
Chairman and CEO Starbucks
Don’t try to
tell the customer what he wants. If you want to be smart, be smart in the
shower. Then get out, go to work and serve the customer! Gene Buckley,
President Sikorsky Aircraft
The most
important adage and the only adage is, the customer comes first, whatever the
business, the customer comes first.
Kerry Stokes
Kerry Stokes
Merely
satisfying customers will not be enough to earn their loyalty. Instead, they
must experience exceptional service worthy of their repeat business and
referral. Understand the factors that drive this customer revolution. Rick
Tate
Men are rich
only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards. Elbert
Hubbard
Our mission
statement about treating people with respect and dignity is not just words but
a creed we live by every day. You can’t expect your employees to exceed the
expectations of your customers if you don’t exceed the employees’ expectations
of management. Howard Schultz, CEO Starbucks Coffee
People
expect good service but few are willing to give it.
Robert Gateley
Robert Gateley
Revolve your
world around the customer and more customers will revolve around you. Heather
Williams
The
customer’s perception is your reality. Kate Zabriskie, Author of: Customer
Service Excellence: How to Deliver Value to Today’s Busy Customer
Customers
today want the very most and the very best for the very least amount of money,
and on the best terms. Only the individuals and companies that provide
absolutely excellent products and services at absolutely excellent prices will
survive.
Brian Tracy
Brian Tracy
It helps a
ton when you learn people’s names and don’t butcher them when trying to
pronounce them. Jerry Yang
Statistics
suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get
excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for
more business.
Zig Ziglar
Zig Ziglar
I don’t do
business with those who don’t make a profit because they can’t give the best
service. Richard Bach
If you don’t
genuinely like your customers, chances are they won’t buy. Thomas Watson,
former CEO IBM
Profit in
business comes from repeat customers; customers that boast about your product
and service, and that bring friends with them. W. Edwards Deming
Your
customer doesn’t care how much you know until they know how much you care. Damon
Richards
Every client
you keep, is one less that you need to find.
Nigel Sanders
Nigel Sanders
If you make
customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you
make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends. Jeff
Bezos Amazon.com founder
The purpose
of a business is to create a customer who creates customers. Shiv Singh
It’s much
harder to provide a great customer service than I would have ever realised.
It’s much more art than science in some of these other areas and not just about
the facts but about how you are conveying them. David Yu, Chief Operating
Officer, Betfair
Nothing is
so contagious as enthusiasm. Samuel
Taylor Coleridge
Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring
their friends. Walt Disney
He profits,
most who serves best. Arthur F. Sheldon
The longer
you wait, the harder it is to produce outstanding customer service. William H. Davidow
The single
most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that there are no
results inside its walls. The result of a business is a satisfied customer. Peter Drucker
When the
customer comes first, the customer will last.
Robert Half
Robert Half
Right or
wrong, the customer is always right.
Marshall Field
Marshall Field
Under
promise and over deliver. Toby Bloomberg
You are
serving a customer, not a life sentence. Learn how to enjoy your work. Laurie McIntosh
Your best
customers leave quite an impression. Do the same, and they won’t leave at all. SAP Ad
Unless you
have 100% customer satisfaction…you must improve.
Horst Schulz
Horst Schulz
It starts
with respect. If you respect the customer as a human being, and truly honor
their right to be treated fairly and honestly, everything else is much easier. Doug
Smith
An ounce of
loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. Elbert Hubbard
Customer
service is not a department, it’s everyone’s job.
Anonymous
Anonymous
Only a life
lived in the service to others is worth living.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
Good
customer service costs less than bad customer service.
Sally Gronow, Welsh Water
Sally Gronow, Welsh Water
Whether you
are big or small, you cannot give good customer service if your employees don’t
feel good about coming to work.
Martin Oliver, MD Kwik-Fit Financial Services
Martin Oliver, MD Kwik-Fit Financial Services
If we keep
doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting. Stephen
Covey
Everyone in
an organisation should be involved with customer service, not only are they
feeling the customer but they are getting a feeling for what’s not working. Penny
Handscomb
There are no
traffic jams along the extra mile. Roger Staubach
Good leaders
must first become good servants. Robert Greenleaf
We don’t
want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want. Laura
Ashley
A shoe
without sex appeal is like a tree without leaves. Service without emotion is
like a shoe without sex appeal. Anonymous
A little
experience often upsets a lot of theory. S.
Parkes Cadman
Whatever
your business is, talk to your customers and provide them with what they want.
It makes sense. Robert Bowman, CEO Major League Baseball Advanced Media
The principle was right there - you couldn't
miss it. The more we did for our customers, the more they did for us. Debbi Fields
There are only two ways to get a new customer:
1. Solicit a new customer any way you can. 2. Take good care of your present
customers so they don't become someone else's new customers.
Ed Zeitz
We shall serve for the joy of serving.
Prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty. Charles Fillmore
It is well worth remembering that the customer
is the most important factor in any business. If you don't think so, try
getting along without them for a while. Napoleon
Hill
The customer is why you go to work. If they go
away, you do, too.
David
Haverford
There is
only one boss. The customer. And she can fire everybody in the company from the
chairman on down, simply by spending her money somewhere else. Sam Walton,
Founder of Wal-Mart
In business today, service is not an issue: if
you don't provide service, you're out of business. John Bell
Customer experience is the next competitive
battleground. It's where business is going to be won or lost. Tom Knighton
Be it furniture, clothes or health care, many
industries today are marketing nothing more than commodities - no more, no
less. What will make the difference in the long run is the care and feeding of
customers. Michael Mescon
You'll never have a product or price advantage
again. They can be too easily duplicated. But a strong customer service culture
can't be copied. Jerry Fritz