Suppliers Quotes:

GM is a highly collaborative organization; we rely on a whole tier of suppliers for everything that we do.

- Tony Scott

topic: Organization, Suppliers, Rely

Having a situation where you have got in conflict with your suppliers all the time is not a great place to be.

- Ian McLeod

source: Source: www.sbs.com.au

topic: Conflict, Situation, Suppliers

Everyone is a customer for somebody, or a supplier to somebody.

- W. Edwards Deming

topic: Management, Suppliers, Customers

Only recently have people begun to recognise that working with suppliers is just as important as listening to customers.

- Barry Nalebuff

topic: People, Listening, Important, Suppliers

In a very real sense, there are only two roles in organisations: customers and suppliers. Everybody functions simultaneously in both roles, whether inside or outside the organisation the essence of good business, therefore, is the quality of the relationship between customer and supplier.

- Stephen Covey

source: Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

topic: Real, Essence, Two, Suppliers

You must have a supplier relationship of constant improvement.

- W. Edwards Deming

topic: Management, Improvement, Constant, Constant Improvement, Suppliers

Let us ask our suppliers to come and help us to solve our problems.

- W. Edwards Deming

topic: Management, Helping, Problem, Suppliers

We like people who are honest. Honest in argument, honest with clients, honest with suppliers, honest with the company - and above all, honest with consumers.

- David Ogilvy

source: David Ogilvy (2012). “The Unpublished David Ogilvy”, p.105, Profile Books

topic: People, Clients, Honest, Suppliers

To have a healthy and thriving business, there must be healthy relationships with the C.E.O.S. in the organization and I'm not referring to the Chief Executive Offficers. I am talking about the Customers, the Employees, the Owner (or stockholders), and the Suppliers.

- James Hunter

topic: Talking, Organization, Healthy, Chief Executives, Suppliers

If I am selling to you, I speak your language. If I am buying, dann müssen sie Deutsch sprechen.

- Willy Brandt

topic: Buying, Language, Speak, Suppliers, Great Customer Service

More and more companies are reaching out to their suppliers and contractors to work jointly on issues of sustainability, environmental responsibility, ethics, and compliance.

- Simon Mainwaring

source: Simon Mainwaring (2011). “We First: How Brands and Consumers Use Social Media to Build a Better World”, p.126, Macmillan

topic: Responsibility, Issues, Environmental, Compliance, Environmental Responsibility

In most cases, preferred supplier contracts contain volume commitments that, if not met, could jeopardize the entire contract and cost the company millions in lost discounts based on nonperformance. This is precisely why compliance with preferred vendors and contracted rates is critical.

- Jeff Pulver

topic: Commitment, Cost, Mets, Vendors, Jeopardize

Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Believe, Giving, Quality, Suppliers

Food is a product of supply and demand, so try to figure out where the supplies are fresh, the suppliers are creative, and the demanders are informed.

- Tyler Cowen

source: Tyler Cowen (2012). “An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies”, p.25, Penguin

topic: Creative, Trying, Demand, Supply And Demand, Suppliers

We believe that there is no greater power in the world than the force of a great idea. We believe that people are the lifeblood of every organization. We believe that the best companies are true meritocracies, where people rise and fall through their own contributions, not through game playing or politics. We believe that work isn't simply a paycheck; it is the ultimate expression of a fully realized self. We believe that a company's obligations extend far beyond its bottom line and its shareholders - to a wider constituency that includes employees, customers, suppliers, and the community.

- John A. Byrne

topic: Fall, Believe, Games, Shareholders, Meritocracy

A smart manager will establish a culture of gratitude. Expand the appreciative attitude to suppliers, vendors, delivery people, and of course, customers.

- Harvey Mackay

topic: Gratitude, Appreciation, Attitude, Vendors, Suppliers

Im either running from life or im just waiting to die im the supplier or fire if you chasing a high.

- T.I.

topic: Running, Fire, Waiting, Suppliers

So much business is based on the belief that we should do whatever we can within legal limits to make as much money as we can. Ben & Jerry's was based on values, and we try to operate a business that not just sells ice cream but partners with all our stakeholders - whether that's suppliers or customers - to bring about a more sustainable world.

- Jerry Greenfield

source: "Ice-cream icon Jerry Greenfield shares his top tips for business startups". Interview with Matthew Jenkin, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2013.

topic: Ice Cream, Trying, World, Stakeholder, Suppliers

When you're a young talent, and you want to launch your brand, you always have tons of questions: Where should I produce? Should I launch a second line? Should I do shoes, accessories? If you have someone who can coach you and give you advice and help you find the right supplier, it's a big help.

- Delphine Arnault

source: "Delphine Arnault Rising". Interview with Miles Socha, wwd.com. April 14, 2014.

topic: Shoes, Giving, Advice, Suppliers, Young Talent

We’ve got customers. We’ve got suppliers. We’ve got employees. We’ve got unions. We’ve got communities. We’ve got all of these things that go into making up whether a business succeeds or fails.

- Gerry Schwartz

topic: Community, Unions, Succeed, Making Up, Suppliers

The aim proposed here for any organization is for everybody to gain - stockholders, employees, suppliers, customers, community, the environment - over the long term.

- W. Edwards Deming

topic: Organization, Long, Community, Suppliers

You must not only focus on the consumer, but also on what it does to you internally - getting people aligned to the strategic mission of the company - what it does to the suppliers, governments, all your stakeholders.

- Martin Sorrell

source: Source: www.formula1.com

topic: Government, People, Focus, Stakeholder, Suppliers

We've now become conscious of the uncalculated social, economic, and environmental costs of that kind of "unconscious" capitalism. And many are beginning to practice a form of "conscious capitalism," which involves integrity and higher standards, and in which companies are responsible not just to shareholders, but also to employees, consumers, suppliers, and communities. Some call it "stakeholder capitalism."

- Patricia Aburdene

topic: Business, Integrity, Practice, Stakeholder, Suppliers

Once the government becomes the supplier of people's needs, there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right.

- Lawrence Auster

topic: Government, People, Needs, Suppliers

Distributed print is arguably our biggest challenge as a machinery supplier, as more publishers find efficiencies in transferring print production to remote printers and supersites. But our signature Goss flexibility and adaptability allow us to meet that challenge head-on with relevant technologies, services and expertise that continue to provide customers with an edge.

- Eric Bell

source: "Eric Bell is Director of Marketing Services at Goss International". Interview with Charlotte Janischewski, www.wan-ifra.org. October 13, 2011.

topic: Technology, Challenges, Signatures, Printer, Suppliers

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

source: Source: www.strategy-business.com

topic: Not Good Enough, Information, Needs, Coordinating, Suppliers

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

source: Source: time.com

topic: Technology, United States, Connections, Suppliers

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

topic: Business, Environmental, Culture, Company Culture, Environmental Policy

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

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

topic: Business, Cost, Pay, Suppliers

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

topic: Brochures, User Friendly, Suppliers, Packages

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

topic: Jobs, Mean, Entrepreneur, Suppliers

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

topic: Running, Cutting, Russia, Cutting Off, Suppliers

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

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

topic: Media, Trying, Conflict, Suppliers

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

topic: Faith, Church, Should, Suppliers

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

- Raf Simons

topic: Fashion, Team, Octopus, Vendors, Suppliers

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

topic: Two, Lists, Arabia, Persian Gulf, Suppliers

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

topic: Home, Common Sense, Decision, Energy Policy, Suppliers

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

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

topic: America, Tea, Bags, Suppliers, Tea Bag

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

topic: Attitude, Long, Important, Truffles, Suppliers

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

topic: Strong, Reality, Ikea, Humbleness, Living Reality

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

topic: Safety, Drug, Physicians, Pharmacist, Unethical

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

topic: Links, Partners, Beta, Developers, Suppliers

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

topic: Giving, Survival, Use, Good Experiences, Hiccups

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

topic: Teacher, Children, College, Compulsory, Compulsory Education

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

topic: Law, Somewhere Else, Style, Stripping, Suppliers

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

topic: Names, Ideas, Movement, Suppliers, Initials

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

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

topic: Honesty, Successful, Artist, Suppliers, Misrepresentation

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

topic: School, Kids, Canada, Suppliers

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

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: August, Kuwait, Oil, Suppliers

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

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Cities, Creative, Intellectual, Suppliers, Auto Industry