#raining

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

#business #business-culture #china #china-culture #global

No matter what your reason for wanting to start your own business, developing the foundation is the same. Laying a solid foundation for you business will provide you with a road map to follow as you build your business. As you work through the Start a Business Step-by-Step Workbook you will define the company’s mission, decide what business entity is right for your business, name your business, determine the pricing for your products or services, formulate your financial projections, define your competitors, survey consumers regarding your products or services, determine the marketing methods right for your business and more. ↗

— Jeanne A. Estes

#business-plan #business-start-up #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #entrepreneurship-training

Know this about yourself: there is only one reason professional salespeople lose orders-- they are outsold. ↗

— Jim Holden

#business-advice #sales #sales-advice #sales-training #business

Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation. ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#hardest #learning #practice #training #transformation

At that point where you have decided to upgrade from aspiration to expectation and have begun to visualize an outcome, something incredibly important has happened, you have committed to the process of change. ↗

— Lorii Myers

#change

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas. ↗

— Edward Bond

#comes #containing #democracy #genes #ideas

They (teenage boys)don’t really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation. ↗

— Rob Lowe

#mentoring #parenthood #training #education

Here is a truth that most teachers will not tell you, even if they know it: Good training is a continual friend and a solace; it helps you now, and assures you of help in the future. Good education is a continual pain in the neck, and assures you always of more of the same. ↗

— Richard Mitchell

#reasoning #thinking #training #vocation #education

I always carry a spoon in my pocket. You know, just in case it rains.
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— Jarod Kintz

#humor #pocket #preparation #prepared #rain

I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I'd never done which was really, really, really cool. ↗

— Ashley Scott

#dive #done #how #i #learning