C Quotes
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“Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Custom is second nature.”
“Custom is second nature. Be accustomed to a bald head, sufficiently accustomed, and hair on it would seem monstrous.”
Source: Prelude to Foundation
“Custom is the great guide to human life.”
Source: David Hume: an introduction to his philosophical system
“Custom is the law of fools.”
“Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the legislator of the first, and novelty of the last. Custom, therefore, looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.”
“Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.”
“Custom is, nevertheless, the greatest enchantress, and in a home one of the most benevolent of fairies. A wife was young, and becomes old; it is custom which hinders the husband from perceiving the change.”
“Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.”
Source: Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)
“Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that are to come.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Custom makes monsters of us all.”
Source: Death in Ecstasy: Inspector Roderick Alleyn #4
“Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Custom reconciles us to everything.”
“Custom, which has the force of law in the Dutch East Indies more than it has anywhere else, dictates that an officer charged with government of a division shall be given a festive reception.”
Source: Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
“Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.”
Source: The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929
“Custom without truth is error grown old.”
“Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.”
“Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me.”
Source: British Theatre: Bold stroke for a wife
“Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.”
“Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.”
Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh ; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature
“Custom, though never so ancient, without truth, is but an old error.”
“Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures.”
“Customary greeting to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, What's shaking, chiefy baby?”
“customary interruptions are not only gratifying and cheering, but they are also really necessary in order to gain breath and voice to carry one on through some violent exertions; though after all it must be confessed that silence is the most flattering applause an Actor can receive.”
“Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another.”
“Customer behavior is not just defined by what your customers want but also by what they believe in.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“Customer complaints are like open wounds. Don’t let them remain open for long. It might be a wound on the finger, but the body is still yours.”
Source: Quantraz
“Customer complaints are the schoolbooks from which we learn.”
“Customer conversion is dependent on the right customer conversation.”
Source: Soul Trader: Putting the Heart Back into Your Business
“CUSTOMER: Do you have this children's book I've heard about? It's supposed to be very good. It's called "Lionel Richie and the Wardrobe.”
Source: Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
“Customer Experience Design CX is one of the most important facets of business yet most businesses allow customers to wait 30 minutes on hold to speak to an operator in another country and then wonder why their sales, profits, and market share are decreasing?”
“CUSTOMER: I don’t know why she wants it, but my wife asked for a copy of The Dinosaur Cookbook.
BOOKSELLER: The Dinah Shore Cookbook?”
Source: Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
“CUSTOMER: I’m always on night shift at work.
BOOKSELLER (jokingly): Is that why you’re buying so many vampire novels?
CUSTOMER (seriously): You can never be too prepared.”
Source: Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
“CUSTOMER: If I were to, say... meet the love of my life in this bookshop, what section do you think they would be standing in?”
Source: Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
“Customer is always right , We listen our Customers.”
“Customer is king.
I am his treasurer.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long.”
Source: Service America!: Doing Business in the New Economy
“Customer needs may vary, but their bias for quality never does.”
“Customer relations are the heartbeat of sustainable success—when we elevate every interaction into an experience of trust, satisfaction becomes loyalty, and loyalty becomes our strongest growth strategy.”
Source: Rescue-Revive-Rebuild
“Customer relationships are defined by customers.”
“Customer research produces bland products. We're producing a piece of art.”
“Customer satisfaction is more important than the accumulation of phony internet reviews.”
Source: Your Clients and You
“Customer satisfaction is the key determinant of quality. If a product satisfies the customer or meets the customer's specifications, then it is acceptable. Otherwise, it is defective in some way. To define the quality of any product, one must fully understand customer needs and specifications.”
Source: Six Sigma for Business Excellence
“Customer satisfaction is worthless. Customer loyalty is priceless.”
“Customer Satisfaction mulai menjadi pondasi sebagian besar perusahaan untuk mempertahankan loyalitas pelanggan ditengah persaingan perusahaan. Perusahaan yang berhasil mengedepankan Customer Satisfaction adalah Amazon.com.”
“Customer service has become absolutely strategic.”
Source: You Lead: How Being Yourself Makes You a Better Leader
“Customer service is bad because we allow it to be bad. What do you do when you get bad service? Tell the truth.
If you aren’t willing to speak up, then you are an accessory to the crime.
You can’t ignore bad service and expect it to get better. Behavior that is ignored will be repeated.
Next time you get bad service, speak up. Remember: it’s your money you are defending – money you worked hard for. Tell the company and others. Use the internet and social media. That’s how customer service will improve for all of us.”
“Customer service is just a day-in, day-out ongoing, never-ending, unremitting, persevering, compassionate, type of activity.”
“Customer service is not a department, it's everyone's job.”