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“The first step in exceeding your customer's expectations is to know those expectations.”

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Author:Roy H. Williams

“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.”

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Author:Rupert Murdoch

“Most of your competition spend their days looking forward to those rare moments when everything goes right. Imagine how much leverage you have if you spend your time maximizing those common moments when it doesn't.”

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Author:Seth Godin

“The only purpose of customer service is to change feelings.”

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Author:Seth Godin

“Don't make promises unless you will keep them. Not planning to keep them. Will keep them. Reliability is one of the keys to any good relationship, and good customer service is no exception.”

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Author:Susan Ward

“Train your staff (if you have any) to be always helpful, courteous, and knowledgeable. Most importantly, give every member of your staff enough information and power to make those small customer-pleasing decisions, so he never has to say, "I don't know, but so-and-so will be back at..."”

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Author:Susan Ward

“Answer your phone. Get call forwarding. Or an answering service. Hire staff if you need to. But make sure that someone is picking up the phone when someone calls your business.”

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Author:Susan Ward

“Listen to your customers. Can the sales pitches and the product babble. Let your customer talk and show him that you are listening by making the appropriate responses, such as suggesting how to solve the problem.”

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Author:Susan Ward

“Deal with complaints. If you give the complaint your attention, you may be able to please this one person this one time - and position your business to reap the benefits of good customer service.”

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Author:Susan Ward

“Throw in something extra. Whether it's a coupon for a future discount, additional information on how to use the product, or a genuine smile, people love to get more than they thought they were getting. And don't think that a gesture has to be large to be effective.”

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Author:Susan Ward

“The irony of good customer service is that over time it will bring in more new customers than promotions and price slashing ever did!”

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Author:Susan Ward

“Lower prices are not service; they're just lower prices.”

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Author:Susan Ward

“Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!”

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Author:Tom Peters

“Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain't in the mean, the mode or the median - it's in the differences that occur throughout a population.”

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Author:Tom Peters

“It's relatively simple. If we're not getting more, better, faster than they are getting more, better, faster, then we're getting less, no better or more worse.”

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Author:Tom Peters

“Zappos uses call center technology to track average call time per agent. But the goal isn't to reduce this average - it's more important that we make an emotional connection with the customer, rather than just quickly getting them off the phone.”

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Author:Tony Hsieh

“Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.”

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Author:Wendell Johnson

“What comes out of your mouth is determined by what goes into your mind.”

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Author:Zig Ziglar

“Companies cannot really see beyond their current customer base. They explicitly or implicitly do things to protect their current customers. And the last person to want real change is your customer. This is why most new ideas come from small companies that have nothing to lose.”

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Author:Nicholas Negroponte

“It's not about market share. If you have a successful company, you will get your market share. But to get a successful company, what do you have to have? The same metrics of success that your customer does.”

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Author:Gordon Bethune

“If employees need to stay late in order to curry favor with the boss, what motivation do they have to get work done during normal business hours? After all, they can put in the requisite 'face time' whether they are surfing the Internet or analyzing customer data.”

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Author:Robert Pozen

“The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.”

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Author:Aaron Levie

“We are reinventing ourselves as a company. Compaq is taking ownership of its customer relationships and accountability of our customer's needs.”

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Author:Eckhard Pfeiffer

“If a customer walks out without shoes, you really want to find out why. 'It didn't fit' is not good enough.”

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Author:Thomas G. Stemberg

“Forget 'branding' and 'positioning.' Once you understand customer behavior, everything else falls into place.”

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Author:Thomas G. Stemberg

“One of the people who most influenced me was Ben Shapiro, a marketing professor at the business school. He used to rant and rave and pound his fist: 'It's all about the customers!' And he was right. He was also right that, at that time, retailing was devoid of really talented people; he urged me to go in that direction.”

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Author:Thomas G. Stemberg

“As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.”

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Book:The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems

Source: The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems

“In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do.”

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Author:Tate Taylor

“I am not pushy. You want it, you buy it. Most people hit the customer over the head. But if you're too self-important, it's kind of repellent.”

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Author:Judith Leiber

“One of the things which make any company successful, in particular the Home Depot, was that we understood and catered to the customer. If it didn't sell, it didn't make a difference what we thought or our research told us. They told us if it was successful by buying it or not.”

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Author:Bernard Marcus

“Giving builds loyal customers and turns those customers into supporters...You can find passion and profit and meaning all at once, right now.”

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Author:Blake Mycoskie

“When you're buying a pair of TOMS, if you don't feel like you're part of a community, then I've failed.”

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Author:Blake Mycoskie

“Giving feels good, but it's also good for the bottom line. Charity is a viable growth strategy for a lot of companies. Our customers get excited to be a part of what we're doing. If you ask anyone wearing Toms how they first heard about us, most won't mention an advertisement; they'll say a friend told them our story.”

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Author:Blake Mycoskie

“Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man's life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone.”

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Author:Bahá'u'lláh

“Bend your minds and wills to the education of the peoples and kindreds of the earth, that haply the dissensions that divide it may, through the power of the Most Great Name, be blotted out from its face, and all mankind become the upholders of one Order, and the inhabitants of one City.”

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Author:Bahá'u'lláh

“Close investigation will show that the primary cause of oppression and injustice, of unrighteousness, irregularity and disorder, is the people's lack of religious faith and the fact that they are uneducated.”

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Author:Abdu'l-Bahá

“The primary, the most urgent requirement is the promotion of education. It is inconceivable that any nation should achieve prosperity and success unless this paramount, this fundamental concern is carried forward. The principal reason for the decline and fall of peoples is ignorance. Today the mass of the people are uninformed even as to ordinary affairs, how much less do they grasp the core of the important problems and complex needs of the time.”

“...knowledge is the cause of human progress.”

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Author:Abdu'l-Bahá

“To promote knowledge is thus an inescapable duty imposed on every one of the friends of God.”

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Author:Abdu'l-Bahá

“Common education standards are essential for producing the educated work force America needs to remain globally competitive. This voluntary state lead effort will help ensure that all students can receive the college and career ready, world class education they deserve, no matter where they live. I applaud the states efforts that got us here today and the work of NGA, CCSSO and Achieve in supporting this important achievement.”

“We believe that this initiative is a critical first step in our nation s effort to provide every student with a comprehensive, content rich and complete education. These standards have the potential to support teachers in achieving NEA s purpose of preparing students to thrive in a democratic society and a diverse, changing world as knowledgeable, creative and engaged citizens and lifelong learners.”

“With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer to supporting effective teaching in every classroom, charting a path to college and careers for all students, and developing the tools to help all children stay motivated and engaged in their own education. The more states that adopt these college and career based standards, the closer we will be to sharing innovation across state borders and becoming more competitive as a country.”

“State Farm is pleased to support the Common Core State Standards Initiative. State by State adoption of these standards is an important step towards maintaining our country s competitive edge. With a skilled and prepared workforce, the business community will be better prepared to face the challenges of the international marketplace.”

“If we use these common standards as the foundation for better schools, we can give all kids a robust curriculum taught by well prepared, well supported teachers who can help prepare them for success in college, life and careers.”

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Author:Randi Weingarten

“Education is the single most important job of the human race.”

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Author:George Lucas

“To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education is always about relationships. Great teachers are not just instructors and test administrators: They are mentors, coaches, motivators, and lifelong sources of inspiration to their students.”

“In order to reclaim America's 'creativity' differentiator, we must be able to provide businesses with a workforce of imaginative employees who will pave the way to a new future. It is time to transform our educational system in America to embrace and nurture creativity as a core value.”

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Author:Larry R. Thompson

“Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.”

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Author:Ken Robinson

“It is my vision that we all will dedicate the next decade to achieve universal literacy and education for all children, especially for girls. More than 145 million of the world's children are deprived of education due to poverty, exploitation, slavery, gender discrimination, religious extremism, and corrupt governments. May Three Cups of Tea be a catalyst to bring the gift of literacy to each of those children who deserves a chance to go to school.”

“There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the classroom and make it work, then it fails.”

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