Customer Service Quote – Henry Ford

The phrase quality customer service is often bantered around in organizations. While some employees strive to deliver the best customer service possible, others simply show up for work and go through the motions. Likewise, some supervisors and managers are satisfied with just meeting minimal standards and do not continually look for ways to improve the system and enhance the customer experience.

It is a shame that in an economy where good jobs are hard to find, many employees are just “waiting to get another job” instead of dedicating themselves to give the best customer service possible each day. What these people fail to realize is that when they slight their internal and external customers by providing minimal effort, they not only taint the reputation of the organization and cost it money; they also damage their own professional image and limit opportunities and rewards for themselves at the same time.

Henry Ford summed up the reason to develop and maintain a customer-centric organization when he said the following:

“It is not the employer who pays the wages.

Employers only handle the money.

It is the customer who pays the wages.”

– Henry Ford

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About Robert C. Lucas – An Award-Winning Author and Customer Service Expert

Bob Lucas has been a trainer, presenter, customer service expert, and adult educator for over four decades. He has written hundreds of articles on training, writing, self-publishing, and workplace learning skills and issues. He is also an award-winning author who has written thirty-seven books on topics such as, writing, relationships, customer service, brain-based learning, and creative training strategies, interpersonal communication, diversity, and supervisory skills. Additionally, he has contributed articles, chapters, and activities to eighteen compilation books. Bob retired from the U.S. Marine Corps in 1991 after twenty-two years of active and reserve service.

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In my book Customer Service Skills for Success, I define customer service as “the ability of knowledgeable, capable, and enthusiastic employees to deliver products and services to their internal and external customers in a manner that satisfies identified and unidentified needs and ultimately results in positive word-of-mouth publicity and return business.”