Quotes by Businessmen - Page 10

To carefully listen is a powerful way of saying to another that we value that person. When we take the time to understand we communicate that we care, we want to understand, we respect their expression, we give dignity and an individual sense of worth. Communication lies more in feeling than in words.
Stephen Covey
The great obstacle to communication is the tendency to constantly evaluate or moralize with others, creating in them a fear to speak or act. The great key to this communication is to learn to listen attentively with understanding to the other person’s point of view creating an atmosphere of love and approval.
Stephen Covey
All of us are interested in things outside of our stewardships, and we should be, but the most important way to do anything about them is to magnify our own stewardships. When you focus on your own responsibility, you become relatively unconcerned with other peoples stewardships...The highest form of influence is to be a model, not a critic; a light, not a judge.
Stephen R. Covey
Very few people have ever experienced the feeling of being completely understood. When they experience it, it can become one of the richest feelings they have ever had.
Stephen Covey
It is unpleasant and disturbing to be rejected. It is deeply satisfying to be accepted.
Stephen Covey
people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.
Stephen R. Covey
My wife and I just don't have the same feelings for each other we used to have. I guess I just don't love her anymore and she doesn't love me. What can i do?""The feeling isn't there anymore?" I asked."That's right," he reaffirmed. "And we have three children we're really concerned about. What do you suggest?""love her," I replied."I told you, the feeling just isn't there anymore.""Love her.""You don't understand. the feeling of love just isn't there.""Then love her. If the feeling isn't there, that's a good reason to love her.""But how do you love when you don't love?" "My friend , love is a verb. Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Serve her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her. Are you willing to do that?
Stephen R. Covey
Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
Stephen R. Covey
The purpose of teaching is learning and learning is changed behavior.
Stephen R. Covey
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education
Stephen R. Covey
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Stephen R. Covey
It doesn`t hurt to get more education.
Donald J. Trump
The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.
Thomas A. Edison
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing
Warren Buffett
Beating the competition is relatively easy. Beating yourself is a never-ending commitment.
Phil Knight
In those things toward which we exerted our best endeavors we succeeded.
George S. Clason
I would hesitate to use the word 'success' in the way many people do. I don't know that I would apply it to what I've done as though I have now reached the ultimate goal. To me success is a continuing thing. It is growth and development. It is achieving one thing and using that as a stepping stone to achieve something else. Success comes as you have confidence in yourself. Self-confidence is built by succeeding, even if the success is small. It is the believing that makes it possible.
Walter Knott
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Nelson Bunker Hunt
To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. The world is not yet a crazy enough place to reward a whole bunch ofundeserving people.
Charles T. Munger
Success is a poor teacher
Robert T. Kiyosaki
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
John D. Rockefeller
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
Warren Buffett
You know what uranium is, right? This thing called nuclear weapons like lots of things are done with uranium including some bad things.
Donald J. Trump
Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns- the ones we don't know we don't know.
Donald Rumsfeld
Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).
Stephen R. Covey
Ben laughed. "You think all religions are scams, don't you?""Yes, I suppose I do," Epstein said. "But the religions are mostly scamming themselves. That they scam others is usually a side-effect.
James L. Halperin
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
Stephen R. Covey
There is no future in a job. The only future is inside oneself. We look inside rather than outside. We become producer rather than consumers of other peoples’ production.
Stephen Covey
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve
W Clement Stone
If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.
Warren Buffett
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison
Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.
Donald J. Trump
Stay humble as a writer: write on toilet paper.
Jonas Eriksson
Just as faith without works is dead, so also works without faith.
Stephen R. Covey
No man succeeds without faith. Whether you call it religious faith or label it something else. I don't feel anything worthwhile is accomplished without it. When you believe there is a Supreme Being guiding the destiny of this universe and that within each of us there is a little part of that Being, then you will have faith in yourself, in your country, in that Supreme Being, and in humanity itself.
Walter Knott
The only thing that stands between a person and what they want in life is the will to try it and the faith to believe it is possible.
Rich DeVos
I believe you can only be lucky if you start out beingvery good
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
But there was no time to rest on my laurels.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
He walked out without his money.The lesson to me was clear: hold onto your integrity at all costs. Never compromise on that.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
There wasn’t a question of what compromise there should be or what kind of peace process we should engage in. There was only one discussion: How do we remove the colonial power that is occupying ourcountry?
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
I always have believed that we should not call it an Arab-Israeli issue or a Palestinian-Arab dispute or a peace negotiation. I think we should call it what it is: an occupation of Palestine, full stop. This is not a popular position in mixed company.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
It's all possible and I'm living proof.
Ralph Lauren
It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life.
George W. Bush
Pray like it all depends on God, but work like it all depends on you.
Dave Ramsey
To be successful, look for the job you will take if you don't need a job
Warren Buffett
Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.
Stephen R. Covey
We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.
Dave Ramsey
Never spit in a lion's face when you've got your hand in his mouth.
A.G. Gaston
The more you know, the less you need.
Yvon Chouinard
In that moment, I understand the way that the noblest yearning for duty and sacrifice can be mixed up with all that is savage and shameful, like in the Bible, where a just and merciful God tells you to kill everyone, kill the children, kill the livestock, kill John Polling, leave nothing alive to sully this pure and just world. Except when it's all done you find out that wasn't really God after all, just some politician, or maybe it was God, but he taps you on the shoulder and says, 'No, dude, that isn't what I meant,' and leaves you sitting in a Dairy Queen in Bothell with blood on your hands and no further orders...
Stuart Archer Cohen
The place to cure most of the ills of society is in the homes of the people.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
W Clement Stone
...What I have denied and what my reason compels me to deny, is the existence of a Being throned above us as a god, directing our mundane affairs in detail, regarding us as individuals, punishing us, rewarding us as human judges might.When the churches learn to take this rational view of things, when they become true schools of ethics and stop teaching fables, they will be more effective than they are to-day... If they would turn all that ability to teaching this one thing – the fact that honesty is best, that selfishness and lies of any sort must surely fail to produce happiness – they would accomplish actual things. Religious faiths and creeds have greatly hampered our development. They have absorbed and wasted some fine intellects. That creeds are getting to be less and less important to the average mind with every passing year is a good sign, I think, although I do not wish to talk about what is commonly called theology.The criticisms which have been hurled at me have not worried me. A man cannot control his beliefs. If he is honest in his frank expression of them, that is all that can in justice be required of him. Professor Thomson and a thousand others do not in the least agree with me. His criticism of me, as I read it, charged that because I doubted the soul’s immortality, or ‘personality,’ as he called it, my mind must be abnormal, ‘pathological,’ in other, words, diseased... I try to say exactly what I honestly believe to be the truth, and more than that no man can do. I honestly believe that creedists have built up a mighty structure of inaccuracy, based, curiously, on those fundamental truths which I, with every honest man, must not alone admit but earnestly acclaim.I have been working on the same lines for many years. I have tried to go as far as possible toward the bottom of each subject I have studied. I have not reached my conclusions through study of traditions; I have reached them through the study of hard fact. I cannot see that unproved theories or sentiment should be permitted to have influence in the building of conviction upon matters so important. Science proves its theories or it rejects them. I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God. I earnestly believe that I am right; I cannot help believing as I do... I cannot accept as final any theory which is not provable. The theories of the theologians cannot be proved. Proof, proof! That is what I always have been after; that is what my mind requires before it can accept a theory as fact. Some things are provable, some things disprovable, some things are doubtful. All the problems which perplex us, now, will, soon or late, be solved, and solved beyond a question through scientific investigation. The thing which most impresses me about theology is that it does not seem to be investigating. It seems to be asserting, merely, without actual study....Moral teaching is the thing we need most in this world, and many of these men could be great moral teachers if they would but give their whole time to it, and to scientific search for the rock-bottom truth, instead of wasting it upon expounding theories of theology which are not in the first place firmly based. What we need is search for fundamentals, not reiteration of traditions born in days when men knew even less than we do now.]
Thomas A. Edison
Be the kind of person who catches the shit before it hits the fan, not the one who scrapes it off afterwards.
Jonas Eriksson
Make life easier by living in the present and believing in the future.
Jonas Eriksson
If you appreciate the small things, you're likely to get the big ones.
Jonas Eriksson
Believe in human beings - not all are good, but deep down all can be. But that doesn't mean you need to hang around crappy people and try to turn them around.
Jonas Eriksson
They [Nazi captors]had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment; but he [Viktor Frankl] had more freedom, more internal power to exercise his options.
Stephen R. Covey
Don't write to sell, write to tell.
Jonas Eriksson
No one can be right all the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.
Robert Half