Quotes About Development

Develop the business around the people; build it, don't buy it; and, then, be the best.

All the best human impulses can be traced back to adolescence.

It's like a garden: Whatever you water the most will do the best. At some point, you decide whether you'll water your career or your relationship more.

I always said I wanted to be the best at what I could do. I feel like I can improve.

The best wines take the longest to mature.

The best way to help the poor is the provide them property rights.

Coachable people seek out those who speak truth to them, even if it is a painful truth, because it protects them and it makes them a better person and leader.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Marketing takes a day to learn. Unfortunately, it takes a lifetime to master.

Great companies are built by people who never stop thinking about ways to improve the business.

We cannot choose between [economic] growth and sustainability - we must have both

The message of the Kaizen strategy is that not a day should go by without some kind of improvement being made somewhere in the company.

Progress is often equal to the difference between mind and mindset.

Innovation is everything. When you're on the forefront, you can see what the next innovation needs to be. When you're behind, you have to spend your energy catching up.

Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it...only business people think it isn't necessary to train.

As you train and as you develop your talents, you do get better, hopefully, or you get out of the business.

Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.