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"Service is the currency that keeps our economy moving. I serve you in one business, you serve me in another. When either of us improves, the economy gets a little better. When both of us improve, people are sure to take notice. When everyone improves, the whole world grows stronger and closer together."
"Delighted customers are the only advertisement everyone believes."
"Your product is a starting point. A loyal customer is the goal."
"Service does not exist at the expense of your profits. Profit exists because you made the investment in service."
"If customers leave without a purchase, you have not failed. But if customers leave without a smile, you have."
"The right measure is not how many customers you've got, but how closely you hold them."
"Exceeding expectations is where satisfaction ends and loyalty begins."
"Hearing what you've done right is valuable. Hearing what you've done wrong can be priceless."
"You've got one mouth and two ears. There's a reason."
"The shelter of excuses has a leaky roof."
"The cutting edge of service is always being honed and polished."
"When customers' expectations change faster than your willingness or ability to serve them, you can be sure they'll be someone else's customers soon."
"If you want to stay in business, satisfy customers. If you want to excel in business, delight customers."
"When a customer asks what no one else has ever asked, pay close attention."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.