Top 80 Business Training Quotes
#1. I should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life's work. I would advise young men to take a college course, as a rule, but think some are just as well off with a thorough business training.
John D. Rockefeller
#2. In 2008, Milton Sheppard opened the Waiter Training School in the Bronx, N.Y., charging $175 for courses, but the business soon ran out of money. He now operates a clown college in the same space.
David Sax
#3. In many instances, the words "sell" and "influence" are completely interchangeable.
Chris Murray
#4. When excitement and passion are evident, people want to be around you - including prospects. Prospects will want to do business with you because your joy is contagious.
Michelle Moore
#5. 67% of all shoppers intend to return home with the item they are shopping for, but that only 24% actually do so.
Roy H. Williams
#6. Training and development: The best development programmes change the way people see themselves
John Bright
#7. While extraordinary products and unique services still afford a competitive advantage, the one advantage that stands the test of time ... is people.
Mark Salsbury
#8. To make a decision, all you need is authority. To make a good decision, you also need knowledge, experience, and insight.
Denise Moreland
#9. Focusing on Earning the Right will have an incredible effect on the success of every single sales call that you will make from this day on.
Chris Murray
#10. Any investment in sales training is an investment in your own gross profits.
Roy H. Williams
#11. And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right.
Alan Shepard
#12. People who have been there forever, left to their own devices, are rarely in the best position to design the future. It's those who consciously listen to the constituents of the future who can understand which direction to move in.
Crystal Kadakia
#13. Train everyone lavishly. You can't overspend on training.
Tom Peters
#14. Never Underestimate. Just as in any other negotiation, watching before acting is as important as listening before speaking. It's doubly important in China, however, where customs are time-honored and breaches of protocol not so quickly forgiven.
Irl M. Davis
#15. Businesses that distribute information and news are in the business of training and teaching people.
Clayton Christensen
#16. Solving the problem means helping the customer to understand why you're the best person for the job
Chris Murray
#17. I am always glad to think that my education was, for the most part, informal, and had not the slightest reference to a future business career. It left me free and untrammeled to approach my business problems without the limiting influence of specific training.
Alice Foote MacDougall
#18. Don't do business just for the money. Make it a hobby and the money will come automatically.
Ehab Atalla
#19. Our government is committed to helping our young people develop the skills and training they need to succeed. Through our Summer Company program, students can launch a business, become employers, and gain an advantage in the highly competitive global economy - all while still in school.
Brad Duguid
#20. It is time to recognize conventional MBA programs for what they are - or else to close them down. They are specialized training in the functions of business, not general educating in the practice of management.
Henry Mintzberg
#21. If Roman Abramovich helped me out in training we would be bottom of the league and if I had to work in his world of big business, we would be bankrupt!
Jose Mourinho
#22. I'll do strength training in my dressing room between shoots, and I've been known to make business calls while out jogging. I try to mute myself on Bluetooth so they can't hear me huffing and puffing, but I usually end up getting caught.
Alison Sweeney
#23. The role of business in advancing women's rights is growing, particularly in the area of economic opportunity including opening access to training, mentoring, networks, markets, technology and even to capital in some circumstances.
Melanne Verveer
#25. The ability to close sales effectively has never been confined to the last few moments of the conversation.
Chris Murray
#26. The smart business person sees an opportunity to generate referrals by collaborating with their competitors.
Timothy M. Houston
#27. The commitment gap is the massive distance between "yes" and "maybe
Chris Murray
#28. It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
Adam Braun
#29. When you see recurring problems, the methods you've used successfully in the past have to be reevaluated.
Mark Miller
#30. Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.
David Rockefeller
#31. It is amazing, the number of business executives and senior leaders who get to be appointed and elevated to positions of authority on the basis of technical competences whilst lacking essential grooming on basic good manners and customs of conduct that must come from the home training process.
Archibald Marwizi
#32. Every child should be placed on a doorstep to sell something. It's the best possible training for life.
Robert Morley
#33. We have to spend a lot more time training people to be good advocates of U.S. business.
Lawrence Eagleburger
#35. Sales can never be done with 'good' skills or 'good' communication or 'thorough' product knowledge.. It can only be done with PASSION and U gotta be a people loving person, to be alive in sales ...
Honeya
#36. My training really was at the 'New York Times,' you know. When I got there, I was literally supposed to stay there for five weeks, and I got lucky like nobody, you know, like nobody's business.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
#37. I've still got a small fitness and conditioning business where I travel round the world doing stuff for individuals and corporations, mainly fitness training.
Daley Thompson
#38. Everybody sells something to somebody every day, whether it's a product, a service or just a case of making sure that they get their own way.
Chris Murray
#39. Asking the appropriate questions means understanding exactly what your customer is trying to achieve
Chris Murray
#40. Even when he played, he made a business of it.
H.W. Brands
#41. A manager must appreciate and understand the importance of every resource he has. There is a specific purpose for every resource. It is the duty of the manager to utilise the resources to the fullest in the most appropriate manner.
Abhishek Ratna
#42. Why do customers (and that includes you and me) find it so difficult to recall more than a couple of occasions when they felt that they were treated exceptionally by the salespeople who dealt with them?
Chris Murray
#43. In 1989, I started the National Association of Business Women. We incorporated microfinance and different job training for women. We did a survey, with USAID, that found women lacked training, credit and information.
Joyce Banda
#44. Battle is a hard business, sister. Soft training will make for soft soldiers, who will in turn become soft corpses.
Anthony Ryan
#45. In his mind, the business of existence was about minimizing consequences. The plague had raised the stakes, but he had been in training for this his whole life.
Colson Whitehead
#46. Leaders are never measured by their success but rather by the success of those they've been entrusted to lead. Therefore, a leader can never be considered successful until those they lead are successful.
Greg Cagle
#47. If customers don't trust you to help them at the beginning of the sales process, they certainly won't trust you with their money at the end of it.
Chris Murray
#48. We're all somebody's prospect; we're all somebody's customer.
Chris Murray
#49. The fate of your company is in the hands of your people. Train them well.
Roy H. Williams
#50. A SWOT analysis involves asking, What are our strengths and weaknesses? What are our opportunities? What are the threats?
Amanda Lang
#51. It was not in Raj Lyubov's nature to think, "What can I do?" Character and training disposed him not to interfere in other men's business. His job was to find out what they did, and his inclination was to let them go on doing it.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#52. Certain people are just saying, 'Look, I'm a businessperson and I have to run a business effectively and I want people who are going to do the job, who have the training and the education and the personality traits - the soft skills.'
William Julius Wilson
#53. Starting a business is easy, succeeding is a different story." Model Me VIP
Steven Cuoco
#54. The least important person in a business is the most important person in a business.
Jennifer Ho-Dougatz
#55. Earning the Right is a commitment to be the sales professional that your customer really needs
Chris Murray
#56. Really good customer service will deliver sales. You are training salesmen to give the best possible advice and then to achieve the sale. People actually like you to ask for a sale because it shows you value their business.
John Caudwell
#57. Earn the Right - Ensure you put this chunk of Sales Tetris in place first and all the other pieces just take their own positions naturally.
Chris Murray
#58. If you constantly make it clear that you are unwilling to budge, don't get upset when no one is around who's willing to give you a push.
Mark W. Boyer
#59. If you don't use your new knowledge and skills within a relatively short space of time, then it may have been better never to have had the tantalising prospect of change for the better placed in front of you.
Robin Hoyle
#60. Every day is a training day and every event is a training event.
James Pritchert
#61. A knowledgeable manager can lend to the success of an organization "almost" as much as a poorly trained manager can damage it.
Mark W. Boyer
#62. Business is personal and Relationships do matter.
Morag Barrett
#63. Know this about yourself: there is only one reason professional salespeople lose orders-- they are outsold.
Jim Holden
#64. I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife.
Haile Gebrselassie
#65. Professionals never guess - they make it their business to know their business.
Michelle Moore
#66. Great selling involves helping people to make great buying decisions.
Chris Murray
#67. Many business people end up being relationship rich, and referral poor.
Timothy M. Houston
#68. My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business.
Ron Moody
#69. I believe no amount of business school training or work experience can teach what is ultimately a matter of personal character. Businesses are not dishonest or greedy, people are. Thus, a business, successful or not, is merely a reflection of the character of its leadership.
S. Truett Cathy
#70. If one can call anticipation of enemy reactions based on a lifetime of professional training and on thinking and application "intuition," he had it ... He was a professional soldier, a student of history
William Duggan
#71. Brands that will survive and thrive from now on are those with C-level executives that understand the incredible opportunity new media offers them and commit to excellence in managing their social media presence.
Brian E. Boyd Sr.
#72. If you want to break through to higher levels of performance, you must allow yourself to be restructured.
William A. Adams
#73. Executing the solution means gaining customer commitment and delivering on your promises
Chris Murray
#74. Succeeding in life and business is like falling in love with your wife (for those of you that are married). You can't leave your wife at the mercy of another man and feel safe.
Nkem Paul
#75. We are only constrained by the boundaries of our imagination
David Moffett
#77. Libraries function as crucial technology hubs, not merely for free Web access, but those who need computer training and assistance. Library business centers help support entrepreneurship and retraining.
Scott Turow
#78. Linguistics is a good way of defining the culture of a brand. The vocabulary used by sports and lifestyle brands - running, fitness, training, motorsports - is all about functionality, whereas the vocabulary of the luxury business - handbags, ready-to-wear - is all about the product.
Francois-Henri Pinault
#79. Unlike in Europe, where serving is often a career rather than a backup plan, American table-waiting remains a bootstrap business, and some of the biggest skeptics of waiter training courses and schools are seasoned servers themselves.
David Sax
#80. Don't 'tolerate' mistakes. Embrace them!
Tom Peters
