Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Ward

Train your staff (if you have any) to be always helpful, courteous, and knowledgeable. Most importantly, give every member of your staff enough information and power to make those small customer-pleasing decisions, so he never has to say, "I don't know, but so-and-so will be back at..."

Susan Ward

The irony of good customer service is that over time it will bring in more new customers than promotions and price slashing ever did!

John Updike

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

John Taylor Gatto

God was pitched out of forced schooling on his ear after WWII. This wasn't because of any constitutional proscription-there was none that anyone had been able to find in over a century and a half-but because the political state and corporate economy considered the Western spiritual tradition too dangerous a competitor. And it is.

John Stuart Mill

‎A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body.

Peter Drucker

In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world.

Peter Drucker

Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.

Niels Bohr

Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.

Jesus Campos

Nobody escapes. Whoever gets caught, it is not for a lack of education.

Valerie Azlynn

I like a man with some extra padding.

Francis Jeffrey

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

Herodotus

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

Francis Herbert Hedge

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Marianne Williamson

Would a man ever be called vain for speaking his mind?

Lindy Ruff

We only had two odd-man rushes the whole night.

Peter Falk

I didn't become an actor until I was an old man of 28 or 29. I declared to the world that I was an actor. Nobody heard me, but I did declare it.