A Quote by John Maeda

Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately.

John Maeda

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John Maeda
American - Designer
Born: 1966

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

You know the old adage that the customer's always right? Well, I kind of think that the opposite is true. The customer is rarely right.

Charlie Trotter

People say the customer is always right, but you know what - they're not. Sometimes they are wrong and they need to be told so.

Michael O'Leary

The Customer isn't always right. Sometimes the customer is an a**hole. That's the first rule of retail.

Kelly Link

The customer is always right! John Wanamaker must be turning in his grave. If you're a customer today, you're an intruder.

Cleveland Amory

The customer is always right' may have become a standard motto in the world of business, but the idea that 'the audience is always right,' has yet to make much of an impression on the world of presentation, even though for the duration of the presentation at least, the audience is the speaker's only customer.

Max Atkinson

I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.

Chuck Schumer

I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.

John Wooden

During the early stages of an industry, when the functionality and reliability of a product isn't yet adequate to meet customer's needs, a proprietary solution is almost always the right solution - because it allows you to knit all the pieces together in an optimized way.

Clayton M. Christensen

I told myself that I would not come back to women's fashion until I felt I had something new to say. I feel that fashion has become too serious and that the actual customer's needs have not really been addressed. Fashion needs to make one happy. It is a luxury and should enhance one's quality of life.

Tom Ford

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

Eckhard Pfeiffer

Teaching is a sacred profession. And art is a form of teaching.

Stephen Sondheim

We have awesome, passionate customer success and social media teams, but when I see a customer who needs help or is unhappy, I take that personally.

Eric Yuan

At Dell, we believe the customer is in control, and our job is to take all the technology that's out there and apply it in a useful way to meet the customer's needs.

Michael Dell

Teaching sometimes seems like not one profession, but every profession. We ask them to be doctor and diplomat, calf-herder, map-maker, wizard and watchman, electricians of the mind.