“Foremost is the principle that the purpose of consumer research is to understand the customer's needs and wishes, and thus design product and service that will provide better living for him in the future. A second principle is that no one can guess the future loss of business from a dissatisfied customer…”
Source: Out Of The Crisis (1982), p. 175
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As cited in: Jay Conrad Levinson (1999), Mastering Guerrilla Marketing. p. 218
Marketing Management: Analysis, Planning, Implementation and Control, 1967
Source: Marketing Myopia, 1960, p. 20-21

“There is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer.”
Source: 1930s- 1950s, The Practice of Management (1954), p. 37
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Marketing management: A contemporary perspective, 2003

“The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.”
Variant: There is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer.
Source: 1930s- 1950s, The Practice of Management (1954), p. 37
Variant: Product quality can then be defined as: The composite product characteristics of engineering and manufacturing that determine the degree to which the product, in use, will meet the expectations of the customer.
Source: Total Quality Control, 1983, p. 7

“Industrial design keeps the customer happy, his client in the black and the designer busy.”
Raymond Loewy (ca. 1949); Cited in: Paul Greenhalgh (1993) Quotations and Sources on Design and the Decorative Arts. p. 117

Why Apple is destined to fail in India http://wadhwa.com/2017/03/16/apple-destined-fail-india in Vivek Wadhwa (16 March 2017)

“When one understands the principles of design”
Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)
Context: When one understands the principles of design, his taste will have something more solid as a basis than mere whim or fancy, which in the untutored is more likely to be bad than good. Acquainted with the rules of good design he will not accept articles made in defiance of them.