Suppliers Quotes - Page 2

Management has to provide the coordinating mechanism between what the supplier provides and what the user needs in not-good-enough situations where product architecture is consequently interdependent. Management always beats markets when there is not sufficient information.

Clayton Christensen

Not Good Enough, Information, Needs

Source: www.strategy-business.com

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Companies in Mexico are not going to do well if they don't have some connection to not just markets, but also suppliers and technology from the United States.

Barack Obama

Technology, United States, Connections

Source: time.com

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Environmental policies are not just about good publicity; they are about responding to the moral imperative to address both climate change and resource depletion...A company culture that is based on measuring everything in purely financial terms will be crippled by a high turnover of staff, customers and suppliers

Toby Robins

Business, Environmental, Climate

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I am convinced that most companies don't maximize their barter possibilities. Instead of aggressively reducing costs by trading their services with those of their suppliers, they seem content to pay top dollar for everything.

Mark McCormack

Business, Pay, Dollars

Mark H. McCormack (1990). “What They Still Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School”, Bantam

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Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly'... Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words 'user-friendly' on the cover.

Bill Gates

Technology, Trying, Friendly

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Learn to raise capital by any means necessary. That's your primary job as an entrepreneur. You must continually raise capital from family and friends, banks, suppliers, customers and investors.

Richard Branson

Jobs, Mean, Entrepreneur

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If Russia is prepared to run the risk of cutting off supplies to its neighbors if they have a disagreement, how reliable are they as a supplier? You have to ask the question.

William Ramsay

Running, Cutting, Russia

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When you're working in the business and you are genuinely trying to do what's right for consumers, and you're trying to genuinely do what's right for suppliers, but the word doesn't get out, the word doesn't get heard because frankly the media is not interested because it hasn't got a conflict attached to it.

Ian McLeod

Media, Trying, Conflict

"The Observer Effect" with Ellen Fanning, www.sbs.com.au. September 29, 2013.

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You don't decide to build a church because you have money in the bank. You build because God says this is what I should do. Faith is the supplier of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.

Jim Bakker

Faith, Church, Should

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Fashion is such an octopus. You're connected to so many people: suppliers, pattern makers, production teams, marketing teams, vendors.

Raf Simons

Fashion, Team, Octopus

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The bulk of extra supplies that could be put into the market come from two places. One, they come from other Persian Gulf suppliers, of which Saudi Arabia is at the top of the list.

Daniel Yergin

Two, Arabia, Lists

"American Morning With Paula Zahn" with Bill Hemmer, www.cnn.com. September 3, 2002.

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At a time when we are dealing with unpredictable suppliers of energy abroad and higher gas costs at home, the decision to increase domestic energy exploration is integral to a balanced, common sense energy policy.

Randy Neugebauer

Home, Common Sense, Decision

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He dunked his tea bag and watched the results critically. “I really must get a new supplier. This tea is pathetic. America just doesn’t understand tea at all.

Rachel Caine

America, Tea, Bags

Rachel Caine (2007). “The Dead Girls' Dance: The Morganville Vampires”, p.123, Penguin

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It is important to work with purveyors who share our high standards and are discriminating about the products they supply. This has been the foundation of a long and loyal relationship with Gourmet Attitude, a supplier that has helped us offer our guests some of the highest quality imported truffles available in the U.S.

David Breeden

Attitude, Long, Important

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The IKEA spirit is strong and living reality. Simplicity in our behavior gives us strength. Simplicity and humbleness characterize us in our relations with each others, our suppliers and our customers.

Ingvar Kamprad

Strong, Reality, Ikea

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Rogue internet pharmacies continue to pose a serious threat to the health and safety of Americans. Simply put, a few unethical physicians and pharmacists have become drug suppliers to a nation.

Dianne Feinstein

Safety, Drug, Physicians

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We can provide beta software to our developers in advance of the general public. We can easily link up with external partners, customers, and suppliers.

James L. Barksdale

Links, Partners, Beta

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On the Internet, it's survival of the easiest.... Give users a good experience and they're apt to turn into frequent and loyal customers. But ... it's easy to turn to another supplier in the face of even a minor hiccup. Only if a site is extremely easy to use will anybody bother staying around.

Jakob Nielsen

Loyal Customers, Giving, Survival

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By preventing a free market in education, a handful of social engineers - backed by the industries that profit from compulsory schooling: teacher colleges, textbook publishers, materials suppliers, et al. - have ensured that most of our children will not have an education, even though they may be thoroughly schooled.

John Taylor

Teacher, Children, College

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As a businessman, Donald Trump has been associated with some of the worst excesses of a particular style of value-extracting and asset stripping capitalism: set up businesses, let them fail, avoid paying suppliers, use bankruptcy laws to avoid taxes for decades, then set up another business somewhere else. It is this model that is the cause of many problems we see today.

Mariana Mazzucato

Law, Somewhere Else, Style

Source: www.salon.com

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The movement really has evolved because their initial demands [such as factory codes of conduct and disclosure of supplier names and addresses] have virtually all been met. This recent idea of factory certification is building on what they got some time ago.

Pietra Rivoli

Names, Ideas, Movement

Source: content.time.com

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To generate any appreciable degree of long-term affluence requires scrupulous honesty and the willingness to honor long-term agreements with employers, suppliers, partners, and especially customers. The flimflam artist may generate a few quick bucks through fraud or misrepresentation, but no successful and lasting business enterprise was ever founded on such principles.

Robert Sheaffer

Honesty, Successful, Artist

Robert Sheaffer (1988). “Resentment Against Achievement: Understanding the Assault Upon Ability”

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When I was in high school, I loved paintball. I saved up my allowances and started my own paintball supply company. Everyone thought I was just some obsessed kid, but today the company is one of the biggest paintball suppliers in Canada.

Ryan Holmes

School, Kids, Canada

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The invasion of Iraq was not an unprecedented event; it really was the natural extension of a conflict with Iraq that began on August 2, 1990, when Iraq invaded Kuwait and occupied Kuwait, which was a major oil supplier to the United States.

Michael Klare

August, Kuwait, Oil

Source: www.motherjones.com

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Detroit is an urban hell. But even in this city of the dying auto industry, there is reason to hope, if they manage to combine the creative forces of designers and other intellectual "suppliers" in other ways.

Charles Landry

Cities, Creative, Intellectual

Source: www.spiegel.de

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