Pastoral Resources

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

Some had the custom of receiving the Eucharist daily, some twice a week, some on the Lord's day, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, some only on the Lord's Day.

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.

That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

Even if someone is already in your market space, ask yourself whether you can approach it from a different angle and thereby secure your own customer base.

They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.

Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff.

So I think instead of focusing on the competition, focus on the customer.

Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.

I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.

The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.

Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.

Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.

The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.