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Customers Quotes - Page 5

Successful visionaries start from where they are, what they have, and what their customers have.

Tom Gilb (2005). “Competitive Engineering: A Handbook For Systems Engineering, Requirements Engineering, and Software Engineering Using Planguage”, p.310, Butterworth-Heinemann

You can never go too far wrong by thinking like a customer who’s new to the business.

Richard Branson (2010). “Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur”, Virgin

Customers tend to avoid a restaurant that's going aswamp in its own sludge.

Ray Kroc (2016). “Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's”, p.114, St. Martin's Griffin

The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.

"FM Interviews: Interview with Linus Torvalds: What motivates software developers". Interview with Rishabh Aiyer Ghosh, firstmonday.org. October 3, 2005.

Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers.

Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.29, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.

"Elon Musk: Refining Gas Uses More Electricity Than Electric Cars". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. October 26, 2011.

The customer is not always right.

"Breakout of the Year" by Brett Martin, www.gq.com. November 22, 2009.