quotes about Clients
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A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
He who represents himself has a fool for a client
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients.
-- Alan Keyes -
The one thing I never get involved with is selecting art or pictures for a client. This is a very personal thing. If the clients have pictures, I will hang them. When they do not own pictures I leave the walls blank.
-- Albert Hadley -
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Decorators should always remember that letting a client see too many beautiful things is a pitfall.
-- Albert Hadley -
Well, there is an attorney-client privilege here that needs to be respected, and it's a privilege that has been found to be worthy of protection by our courts.
-- Alberto Gonzales -
It's not your client's obligation, or your obligation, to prove your client's innocence. It is the prosecution's obligation to - to prove you're client's guilt.
-- Anderson Cooper -
I've never studied the Japanese. That's something that must have crept in there. But the Japanese are my biggest clients. They seem to like the elemental quality.
-- Andrew Wyeth -
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When you're an agent or a lawyer; its about service, not for yourself, but for your clients
-- Arn Tellem -
A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Keep the problems of clients and prospects confidential. Divulge information only with their consent.
-- Arthur Nielsen -
Be influenced by nothing but your clients' interests. Tell them the truth.
-- Arthur Nielsen -
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Leave no stone unturned to help your clients realize maximum profits from their investment.
-- Arthur Nielsen -
Don't be afraid to go for positions, jobs or take on clients just outside of your knowledge base. It's when you're uncomfortable that you learn and grow the most.
-- Barbara Corcoran -
I'm a private contractor now. I choose my clients, not the other way around.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
We are pushing hard to find quality advertising clients.
-- Ben Nicholson -
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Clients have no trouble paying $5,800 for an hour in a Gulfstream corporate jet or $425 for a month of parking. But God forbid they spend $3 per on a glossy annual report.
-- Bill Cahan -
And I've never viewed comics as assignments for the client
-- Bill Sienkiewicz -
Think of yourself as a resource to your clients;an advisor,counselor,mentor and friend.
-- Brian Tracy -
I can think of a lot of women clients of mine who are well into their 50s or 60s who are still quintessentially very elegant.
-- Bruce Oldfield -
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I would expect an extremely high percentage of the chickens would test positive. Our poultry industry clients wouldn't like that.
-- Bryan Shelton -
It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial, what experiences have been deeply buried.
-- Carl RogersSource : Carl Ransom Rogers, Howard Kirschenbaum, Valerie Land Henderson (1989). “The Carl Rogers Reader”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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At the end of every day, having a clientele that speaks well of you, that's the largest source of business. I don't care what kind of business you're in. Clients referring us to their friends or relatives is so much more powerful than any advertising we could ever do.
-- Charles R. SchwabSource : "Chron 200 / Interview with CEO of the Year Charles Schwab". San Francisco Chronicle Interview, www.sfgate.com. April 9, 2007.
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The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.
-- Christopher Lasch -
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It takes a great client to create great architecture.
-- Curtis W. Fentress -
I got thrown out of Alcoholics because when the other clients saw me they thought they were having the DT's
-- Dave Dutton -
Prostitutes go to heaven. It's their clients that go to hell.
-- David LaChapelle -
If your clients aren't actively telling their friends about you, maybe your work isn't as great as you think it is.
-- David Maister -
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I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes.
-- David Ogilvy -
There has to be some limit to what lawyers can take from their clients. Otherwise, cagey attorneys end up with the lion's share of the settlement and the victims end up with little more than scraps.
-- Dennis Hastert -
Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover.
-- Diane Setterfield -
The counsel on public relations is not an advertising man but he advocates for advertising where that is indicated. Very often he is called in by an advertising agency to supplement its work on behalf of a client. His work and that of the advertising agency do not conflict with or duplicate each other.
-- Edward Bernays -
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I'm strong-willed. Architects are strong-willed. You get the best results with a strong client and a strong architect working together.
-- Eli Broad -
About half the practice of a decent lawyer is telling would-be clients that they are damned fools and should shut up.
-- Elihu Root -
Do what the client wants, not what you want.
-- Elliott Erwitt -
Since changing interfaces breaks clients you should consider them as immutable once you've published them.
-- Erich Gamma -
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I hear a lot of Top Model girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me.
-- Fatima Siad -
I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
-- Floyd AbramsSource : "First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams Talks with CFIF’s Corporate Counsel About Three Decades of Free Speech". "Your Turn - Meeting Nonsense with Common Sense" with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. June 15, 2005.
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Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.
-- Frank Gehry -
I make a model of the site. There are some obvious things: where the entrance should be, where the cars have to go in. You start to get the scale of it. You understand the client's needs, and what the client is hoping for and yearning for.
-- Frank Gehry -
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Is there anyone I wouldn't take as a client? Well, I'd never represent a banker.
-- Gerry Spence -
I have been the victim of many of the injustices that women who are my clients have had. That is how I understand how this is impacting their lives economically, psychologically, often physically. It's all personal. For me, if one woman is denied her rights, we're all being denied our rights.
-- Gloria Allred -
If clients don’t trust you they will eventually stop doing business with you. It doesn’t matter how smart you are.
-- Greg Smith -
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There must be some point, at which the lawyer's own personal and social morality will rebel against his traditional allegiance to his client.
-- Harry Jones -
Design is a process - an intimate collaboration between engineers, designers, and clients.
-- Henry Dreyfuss -
It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce great architecture. You cannot work in the abstract
-- I. M. Pei -
Great artists need great clients.
-- I. M. PeiSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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With high underemployment - currently over one million part-time workers in the UK want to work more hours - sanctioning clients who cannot increase their hours seems to be both unworkable and unfair.
-- Iain Duncan Smith -
I was so happy to be out of there. “Barabas, if you weren’t batting for the other team, I’d marry you.†He grinned. “If I weren’t batting for the other team, I would accept your proposal. You had me at ‘No comment.’ If all my clients were this smart, my life would be much easier. Much, much easier.
-- Ilona Andrews -
Every year in consulting is like three years in the corporate world because you have multiple clients, multiple issues - you grow so much.
-- Indra Nooyi -
I have no contracts with my clients; just a handshake is enough.
-- Irving Paul Lazar -
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As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.
-- Jack AbramoffSource : "Jack in a Box". Zagorin, A., content.time.com. April 30, 2005.
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As a lobbyist, I thought it only natural and right that my clients should reward those members who saved them such substantial sums with generous contributions. This quid pro quo became one of hallmarks of our lobbying efforts.
-- Jack AbramoffSource : Jack Abramoff (2011). “Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth About Washington Corruption From America's Most Notorious Lobbyist”, p.86, BookBaby
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You start losing a client the moment you get it.
-- Jay Chiat -
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We originally developed 'The Client List' along with Lifetime as a TV movie - my manager and I became partners on the project. Then, we brought in Howard Braunstein on the project and produced it along with Lifetime.
-- Jennifer Love Hewitt -
I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of going to prison. I visited them occasionally.
-- John Grisham -
He's my client, and he's counting on me. I'll take him, warts and all.
-- John Grisham -
The only people who don’t love apps are pundits who don’t understand that apps aren’t really in opposition to the open Internet. They’re just superior clients to open Internet services.
-- John Gruber -
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Very often the opinion of the clients must be disregarded in their own interest.
-- John Mercer Johnson -
The ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.
-- John Sterling -
I try to maintain a positive attitude at all times, because clients notice little things like that, and if you're frowning and crying all the time and saying "why? why?", they get worried.
-- John SwartzwelderSource : John Swartzwelder (2004). “The Time Machine Did It”
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Don't hang up until the client either buys or dies.
-- Jordan Belfort -
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We are No. 1 worldwide by quite a margin on the client side and expanding, according to IDC and others, every single quarter. Our expectation is that the industry will consolidate and that more of our competitors will exit.
-- Kevin B. RollinsSource : "Interview: Dell's Rollins lays out a road map, from services to AMD". Interview with Tom Sullivan, www.infoworld.com. November 12, 2004.
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Clients don't want us to do what they ask, they want us to go further
-- Kevin McLean -
I don't think clients you represented as an associate are relevant ... I think how you vote is relevant.
-- Kirsten GillibrandSource : Times Union (Albany), November 15, 2005.
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I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.
-- LaToya Jackson -
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I always say to young people when they ask me how I work, I always say to them, the only time you've ever going to do something good is if you have a good client. And by good I mean all kinds of things.
-- Lawrence Halprin -
I've never found a client's business problem that could be solved solely through advertising.
-- Lee Clow -
I have learned that you can’t have good advertising without a good client, that you can’t keep a good client without good advertising, and no client will ever buy better advertising than he understands or has an appetite for.
-- Leo Burnett -
The moment clients realize that revisions are not an all-you-can-eat buffet, suddenly they realize they are not hungry.
-- Lester Beall -
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Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children.
-- Ludwig Mies van der RoheSource : Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Moisés Puente (2008). “Conversations with Mies Van Der Rohe”, p.17, Princeton Architectural Press
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On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying both the clients and the inmates
-- Malcolm Muggeridge -
Advertising agencies primary goal is to advertise and sell themselves to the client. Selling the product to the public comes second.
-- Mark Jackson -
There are people who are very highly paid to cover the truth and who will protect their clients.
-- Mary Hart -
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It is better to starve than get a bad client.
-- Massimo Vignelli -
If you do good work for good clients, it will lead to other good work for other good clients. If you do bad work for bad clients, it will lead to other bad work for other bad clients.
-- Michael Bierut -
You must look like a money person for clients to trust you.
-- Michael Lee-Chin -
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My client loved risk. Risk, I had learned, was a commodity in itself. Risk could be canned and sold like tomatoes.
-- Michael Lewis -
At XL we are continually focused on the rate of change, the increasingly interconnected world and the need to help our clients advance wherever their business occurs.
-- Mike McGavick -
Is your sales call so valuable that your client would write a check for your visit?
-- Neil Rackham -
Days I kept busy with fractured angels' client masquerades.
-- Olga BroumasSource : Olga Broumas (1999). “Rave: poems, 1975-1999”, Copper Canyon Pr
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The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity, an opportunity to be polite, an opportunity to be manly, an opportunity to be honest, an opportunity to make friends.
-- Orison Swett Marden -
There are rules in advertising, and those rules are self-imposed by the client companies because they don't want their products to be seen as dishonest.
-- Paul Arden -
My Client Brock Lesnar conquered the Undertakers Undefeated Streak at Wrestlemania
-- Paul HeymanSource : "WWE Raw", July 21, 2014.
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Ronnie's new nickname is IFF. The I'm F*%ked Foundation. He's a client and the president!
-- Pauly D -
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Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it.
-- Peter Drucker -
If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
-- Rachel Zoe -
Industrial design keeps the customer happy, his client in the black and the designer busy.
-- Raymond Loewy -
One thing that served me well with clients was that you back your winners and you back your losers.
-- Rick Santelli -
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There's always been a belief that Microsoft would respond punitively if you did something they didn't like. You were afraid of Microsoft's reaction, .. That belief has been pretty much destroyed. Vendors, clients and customers feel pretty much free do whatever they have to do in their Microsoft relationship.
-- Rob Enderle -
If I was a lawyer, I'd be my own best client.
-- Robert Downey, Jr. -
The goal of inner work is to help clients unblock their bottlenecks and learn how to live in partnership with the unconscious rather than at its mercy.
-- Robert Johnson -
I get just as excited about building a birdhouse as when providing strategic counsel to a client.
-- Robert L. Peters -
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Enterprise is hard work. You have to integrate the client with the optimized systems of all the servers and software.
-- Samuel J. Palmisano -
Having great clients is the key to investment success.
-- Seth Klarman -
Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design.
-- Shawn FanningSource : "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, www.zdnet.com. March 3, 2000.
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None of my 'clients' - not Eichmann, not Stangl, not Mengele, and not even Hitler or Stalin - was born a criminal. Somebody had to teach them to hate: maybe the society, maybe the politics, maybe just a Jewish prostitute.
-- Simon Wiesenthal -