Educational Quotes - Page 5

Unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom, and wisdom is expressed in character; education is a wasteful process.

Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves

A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.

If life ever ceased to be an educational experience. I probably wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stonewritten. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

One customer well taken care of could be more valuable than $10,000 worth of advertising.

The most successful educational approach to the Negro is throgh a religious appeal. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the Minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.

I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.

The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention

The definition of salesmanship is the gentle art of letting the customer have it your way.

You cannot improve one thing by 1000% but you can improve 1000 little things by 1%.

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and thy're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.

The first step in exceeding your customer's expectations is to know those expectations.

If every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every parent- and every adult caring for a child-read aloud a minimum of three stories a day to the children in our lives, we could probably wipe out illiteracy within one generation.

Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.