A lawyer wants to get his client off the hook. And even if he knows the client is guilty, he is going to find ways and means of getting him off the hook.
‘PhotoCard’ has 20 times as much code as the sum of ‘QuickDraw,’ ‘MacPaint,’ and ‘HyperCard.’ It is more elaborate and complicated, with all the client and server stuff. It took a lot more of me to do this than other projects, requiring an almost Mother Teresa dedication to do it.
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.
With couture, you’re going right to the consumer, and that’s something we learned from doing trunk shows. You’re meeting the client; you’re finding out what they like and what they don’t like. You’ve really got your customer there in front of you, so you know what works and what doesn’t.
There’s a lot of money with a lot of big law firms that have a tremendous amount at stake by getting the right language to convince the right jury that my client is either innocent or that the opposition is guilty.
I don’t avoid trends. You do definitely want to be on-trend, but I do like to pick and choose the things that I’m seeing. And not every trend will work on every client of mine.
The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account.
My dad’s main client was the World Bank, and he spent most of his time traveling to Third World countries. His particular interest lay in the eradication of poverty through development and business.
You talk to tax attorneys who are not politically motivated, and they will tell you they would never advise their client to release any tax information in the course of an audit.
Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term ‘muppets’ has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I’ve adopted the term to describe portfolios that have been assembled for purposes other than serving the clients’ best interests.
Instead of exporting what they perceived to be rational, modern, humane government to their colonies, the British often found themselves propping up deeply unattractive and corrupt princelings and client rulers because this was the cheapest way of maintaining control.
I’d heard stories about business managers who lost their client’s money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
Some of my friends say that I only talk about myself. But it is funny: my house is covered in art but with nothing of my own, and when I’m working, I’m only thinking about what the client wants. So I don’t see it that way, but maybe it’s true. I mean, they are my friends.
A fiduciary standard means, basically, put the interests of the client first. No excuses. Period.
I think sales is the most important skill set young people can learn. Understanding how to pitch an idea with confidence and secure a client are valuable skills that apply to every single aspect of business.
‘The Client List’ is my baby. I always tell people, ‘It took nine months to put this project together because it is my baby.’ And, it really did take that long!
I didn’t like law. Every client had a problem, and I didn’t want to listen to people’s problems; I had enough of my own.
It’s unwise in business to have one client or two clients. It’s unwise in electricity to have one source or two sources.
I have never had a situation where an investee company would have a good value by having a banker. Investment bankers are there to please future clients. You are a temporary client; they are therefore not to get you the best valuation.
My job is to make sure a client doesn’t have any ‘what if’s – to make sure, when you look back, you don’t say, ‘What if I had done this? What if I had done that?’
Does Facebook behave like a tool in my hand, or a firehose designed to spew at me in accordance with other peoples’ agendas? Concretely: can I write my own client to present a filtered view of the Facebook stream, or have other people do that for me?
I have learned that you can’t have good advertising without a good client, that you can’t keep a good client without good advertising, and no client will ever buy better advertising than he understands or has an appetite for.
For 30 years I’ve been responsible for managing client money, and it’s been a joy, but at some point I need to move on. Thirty years is enough.
I always say to young people when they ask me how I work, I always say to them, the only time you’ve ever going to do something good is if you have a good client. And by good I mean all kinds of things.
Unfortunately, the client that exists today is still pretty much the prototype design.
In the real world, some defense lawyers never have an innocent client in their whole career.
A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.
Whether we’re talking about leadership, teamwork, or client service, there is no more powerful attribute than the ability to be genuinely honest about one’s weaknesses, mistakes, and needs for help.
Blackstone is a major client of many of the largest banks around the world.
I will say this about the truth – that it’s one of those crisis rules, whether you are a client or someone who’s living their life just every day – is that the truth has a funny way of not going away, and telling the truth is extremely important in dealing with any problem or crisis.
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines – so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want… with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.
And I’ve never viewed comics as assignments for the client.
The only thing the defense has to do is take care of the client and see to it that they attack every weak spot on the prosecution’s case. It’s up to the judge to make sure that they don’t pull any fast ones.
Dell will participate in tablets and all sorts of client devices. Our main business is helping our customers secure, protect their data and access it from any device they want to.
The only thing that’s different between high profile or celebrity divorces is that you have to do all you can to keep your client and the details out of the media.
If I see one of my sales assistants neglecting someone because he doesn’t look like a good client, he’s fired immediately.
I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front.
Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client’s needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it.
My hope always when I am working with a new client is that I will cultivate a relationship with them: develop a dialogue and a way of working. This makes it easy for a star to trust you.
Just because you’re from a city ten miles outside of St. Paul. It doesn’t mean you don’t read magazines, or the incredible Internet, and what’s going on in the world. I never, ever take a client, or women, for granted.
I had been struggling to get roles in Hollywood for three and a half years after leaving the WWE. Then I finally got an agent – the agent I have now. He’s a great guy, but he turned me down three times before he even decided to take me on a as a client.
The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.
I’d worked for, during one period, for a PR firm, and for a while Rock Hudson was a client of ours, so I knew him well, and I knew when he had AIDS, that he had AIDS, but I would not write about that.
Nobody should force you to do a bad piece of work in your whole life – no client, no creative director, nobody. The job isn’t to please the client; the job is to produce something for the client that makes them incredibly successful.
Starting from scratch and seeing the smile on a client’s face when it all comes together in the end – it’s a lovely feeling.
Junk is the ideal product… the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.
If I’m looking at a client, I can say, ‘Oh, wow, this is where you’re weak; this is what you need to work on.’ I can correct her in a matter of seconds, and then she’s practicing specifically on the thing she needs to work on instead of repeating the same mistakes. Having that feedback is essential for beginners.
When I finally came to the United States, I was forced to get a job right away. I spoke no English – none. I started working as an aesthetician in this beautiful boutique salon in Beverly Hills. Being an aesthetician didn’t require an elaborate vocabulary in English. My first client was Cindy Crawford! I swear.
Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India’s supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.
