Clients Quotes - Page 6

• 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

  Believe, Cities, Looks

  Interview with Alex Hoyt, www.theatlantic.com. May 2011.

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• 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

  Obvious Things, Car, Needs

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• MR. KHARIS: 'Does Mr. Celine seriously suggest that the United States Government is in need of a guardian?' MR. CELINE: 'I am merely offering a way out for your client. Any private individual with a record of such incessant murder and robbery would be glad to cop an insanity plea. Do you insist that your client was in full possession of its reason at Wounded Knee? At Hiroshima? At Dresden?' JUSTICE IMMHOTEP: 'You become facetious, Mr. Celine.' MR. CELINE: 'I have never been more serious.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Offering, Government, Justice

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• It is most gratifying," it said, "that your enthusiasm for our planet continues unabated, and so we would like to assure you that the guided missiles currently converging with your ship are part of a special service we extend to all of our most enthusiastic clients, and the fully armed nuclear warheads are of course merely a courtesy detail. We look forward to your custom in future lives ... thank you.

  Douglas Adams

  Special, Details, Nuclear

  "Fictional character: Slartibartfast". "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/ Episode #1.3", www.imdb.com. 1981.

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• Our clients' faces, with the customary outward paleness and inner glow of the book lover.

  Diane Setterfield

  Book, Faces, Lovers

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• After a while the business end of writing takes too much of the writing time. Better to pay someone ten percent and find that you're still more than ten percent ahead in the end. Which is true. My present agent says that he always feels that a good agent during the course of a year should earn back for his client at least the ten percent he takes by way of commission, so the client's really nothing out. And what he should ideally do is make him more money than the ten percent.

  Roger Zelazny

  Writing, Years, Agents

  "Phlogiston Forty Four: An Interview with Roger Zelazny". Interview by Alex Heatley, Phlogiston Forty Four, 1995.

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• The best client is a scared millionaire.

  H. L. Mencken

  Scared, Millionaire

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• We are always waiting for the perfect brief from the perfect client. It almost never happens [...] Whatever is on your desk right now, that's the one. Make it the best you possibly can.

  Paul Arden

  Business, Perfect, Waiting

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• I'm so happy that James Baraz's AWAKENING JOY class is now available in book form.  His class has been helpful to thousands of people.  I plan to give it to all my clients who are struggling with creating a life of meaning and happiness.  Joyfulness is our birthright.  This book shows you how to reclaim it.

  M. J. Ryan

  Struggle, Book, Class

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• My studio is arranged so that I have a comfortable seating area for meeting with clients, an office area beyond that and a painting area, which includes room for art students to sit and watch as I work.

  Doug Dawson

  Art, Office, Watches

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• I was doing a campaign once for a manufacturer, and I couldn't think of an ideas, and I was kind of desperate about it. The night before I had to show something to my client I had a dream, an interesting dream. I woke up and for once in my life I wrote it down and went back to sleep Next morning I went to the office and had that dream out into a TV commercial which is still running thirty years after and which has made that particular product the leader in its field.

  David Ogilvy

  Running, Dream, Morning

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• You can never be satisfied as an entrepreneur, and the basis of any successful, growing business is new clients.

  Robert Herjavec

  Successful, Entrepreneur, Growing

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• Having great clients is the key to investment success.

  Seth Klarman

  Keys, Investment Success, Investment

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• We need a mutual fund industry with both vision and values; a vision of fiduciary duty and shareholder service, and values rooted in the proven principles of long-term investing and of trusteeship that demands integrity in serving our clients.

  John C. Bogle

  Integrity, Long, Vision

  John C. Bogle (2010). “Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life”, p.156, John Wiley & Sons

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• 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

  Art, Wall, Interior Design

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• I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.

  Garry Trudeau

  Editors, Expectations, Trying

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• Since changing interfaces breaks clients you should consider them as immutable once you've published them.

  Erich Gamma

  Break, Should, Interfaces

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• Lawyers on TV always tell their clients not to say anything. The cops say that thing: 'Anything you say will be used against you.' Self-incrimination. I looked it up. Three-point vocab word. So why does everyone makes such a big hairy deal about me not talking? Maybe I don't want to incriminate myself. Maybe I don't like the sound of my voice. Maybe I don't have anything to say.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Self, Talking, Voice

  Laurie Halse Anderson (1999). “Speak”, Puffin

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• Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.

  Zaha Hadid

  Men, Thinking, Long

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• If we assume that there are normal or standard income results to be obtained from investing money in securities, then the role of the adviser can be more readily established. He will use his superior training and experience to protect his clients against mistakes and to make sure that they obtain the results to which their money is entitled.

  Benjamin Graham

  Mistake, Investing Money, Training

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• Cumulative errors depend largely on the big surprises, the big opportunities. Not only do economic, financial, and political predictors miss them, but they are quite ashamed to say anything outlandish to their clients and yet events, it turns out, are almost always outlandish.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Opportunity, Errors, Political

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.149, Random House

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• Is your sales call so valuable that your client would write a check for your visit?

  Neil Rackham

  Writing, Checks, Valuable

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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

  Design, Months, Trouble

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• No matter how many times your amazing, absolutely brilliant work is rejected by the client, for whatever dopey, arbitrary reason, there is often another amazing, absolutely brilliant solution possible.
  Sometimes it's even better.

  Bob Gill

  Design, Arbitrary, Matter

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• Design is an art of situations. Designers respond to a need, a problem, a circumstance, that arises in the world. The best work is produced in relation to interesting situations - an open-minded client, a good cause, or great content.

  Ellen Lupton

  Art, Interesting Situations, Design

  Ellen Lupton (2014). “Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students”, p.219, Chronicle Books

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