Warren Buffett has one piece of advice for anyone starting a new business.
He gave that advice to a group of small-business entrepreneurs at the 20th graduation of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program:
Tomorrow morning when you look in the mirror after you've gotten up, just write — in lipstick or whatever you want, on the mirror — just put: "Delight my customer." Not "Satisfy my customer,""Delight my customer."
He pointed to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as a "classic example" of an entrepreneur who has always focused on delighting customers.
"Any business that has delighted customers has a salesforce out there that you don't have to pay, you don't see them, but they're talking to people all the time," Buffett said.
"Whenever I bought my last car — a few years ago — I don't remember how much I paid, but I remember the experience I had."
Buffett's own Berkshire Hathaway started as a small company, but over the course of the last five decades has grown to a market capitalization of $350 billion.
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