“Profits are related to customer retention. Customer retention is related to employee retention. Employee retention may or may not be related to benefits, but benefits could be part of the package that causes people to stay and -- by the way -- engage in discretionary effort. .. If you go into any organization that's customer-facing, you can tell in five minutes when the employees are feeling abused. They retaliate on the customers.” PeopleIfsWayMayFeelingsCausesEffortFiveMinutesBenefitsOrganizationProfitCustomersRelatedEmployeeFive MinutesPackagesRetention Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer
“Seventy-five percent of our energy around the earth is being poured into war efforts. Are we servants of death and destruction? This 75 percent of energy could be poured into life, into the service of life-and there will be laughter, and there will be greater health, and there will be more wealth, more food. There will be no poverty. There is no need for poverty to exist at all.” NeedsWarMotivationalEarthEnergyWealthEffortPovertyFiveGreaterLaughterPercentDestructionServantSeventies Author:Rajneesh
“Five percent seems very little to ask when you consider that the artist, through his or her efforts over many years, is largely responsible for the increased value of their work.” YearsLittlesSeemsArtistValuesAsksMoneyEffortFivePercentResponsible Author:Joe Fafard
“If car manufacturers made cars according to spec the same way software vendors make software according to spec, all five wheels would be of widely differing sizes, it would take one person to steer and another to work the pedals and yet another to operate the user-friendly menu-driven dashboard, and if it would not drive straight ahead without a lot of effort, civil engineers would respond by building spiraling roads around each city.” IfsWayPersonsMadeWould BeEffortCitiesFiveCarBuildingSizeDrivenWheelsFriendlySoftwareUsersEngineersSteersMenusPedalsVendorsCivil EngineerDashboardsSpecsUser Friendly Author:Erik Naggum
“Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant; but it is a stupid, self-sacrificial gallantry, better befitting a boy of twenty than a woman of forty-five or fifty. Let the athletes die young and laurel-crowned. Let the soldiers earn the Purple Hearts. Let women die old, white-crowned, with human hearts.” GivingHumansHeartSelfBodyYoungDiesWhiteEffortBoysFiveStupidTwentiesSoldierAthleteFiftyFortyHuman HeartSignalsPurpleImpressiveLaurelsDie YoungMenopauseGallantGallantryPurple Heart Book:Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places Source: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
“By practicing the Five Agreements, what you are really doing is respecting everything in creation. You are respecting your dream; you are respecting everybody else's dream. If you use these tools, your effort is really for everyone, because your joy, your happiness, your peace, and your heaven are contagious. When you are happy, the people around you are happy too, and it inspires them to change their own world.” PeopleIfsWorldUseDreamJoyHeavenEffortFiveCreationInspireToolsYour DreamsAgreementContagious Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz
“As to the number of novels I've abandoned... I shudder to think. I have thrown away five completed novels, and that's a gruesome enough figure. But not necessarily a waste of effort.” ThinkingEnoughNumbersEffortNovelFiveFiguresWasteThrownAbandonedWaste Of Effort Author:Mark Haddon
“For more than twenty-five years my mind had been deeply troubled by the fact that these mechanical and scientific achievements ofman had outrun his intellectual and spiritual power. ...Throughout the Second World War this terrible problem hung in the back of my mind. As I write these words the problem and the danger are as threatening as ever. We hope our nation will survive, but in its effort to survive will it transform itself intellectually and spiritually into the image of the thing against which we fought?” WorldWritingYearsMindWarFactsProblemSpiritualScienceNationsEffortEducationFiveDangerTerribleAchievementIntellectualTwentiesWar Of The WorldsFive YearsHungThreateningTwenty FiveSecond World WarOf My MindAtomic BombSpiritual PowerOutrun Author:Virginia Gildersleeve
“It's a lot harder to keep your cool than it is to lose it. That's on any work ethic. Even if you're a big producer on a movie set, or whatever, it's a lot harder to be a pro than be a baby on your crew. That's one work ethic to keep in mind, as one bad apple could give five people a bad day, when that one person could've stepped up their own efforts a little more and not bring anyone else down.” PeopleIfsGivingMindLittlesPersonsBigsLosesEffortFiveBabyEthicsHarderProducersApplesCrewWork EthicBad DayMovie SetsThat One PersonBad Apple Author:Hank Williams III
“The sincere effort to accept and promote the human values - Truth, Right Conduct, Peace, Non-Violence and Love. These five values are a essential for a full and worthwhile life as the five vital airs or pranas mentioned in the scriptures.” HumansValuesEffortAcceptingFiveViolenceAirEssentialsAnd LoveScriptureSincereWorthwhileNon ViolenceHuman ValuesPranaRight Conduct Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“I suggest that people make an effort to reach out to five people a month. Not just by Facebook or email or Twitter. I'm talking hard-copy note.” PeopleHardEffortTalkingFiveMonthsNotesCopiesReach OutEmail Author:Dana Perino
“There is nothing puzzling ... about America's gratuitously aggressive foreign policy or about the oligarchs' successful efforts to drag the Republic into five wars. What an aggressive foreign policy accomplishes by slow degrees, a state of war accomplishes in a trice. Overnight [war] kills reform, overnight it transforms insurgents into traitors and the Republic into an imperiled realm. Overnight it strangles free politics, distracts and overawes the citizenry. Overnight it blasts public hope.” WarStatesAmericaEffortSuccessfulFivePolicyDegreesAccomplishReformRealmsRepublicAggressiveForeign PolicyDragBlastTraitorCitizenryInsurgentPuzzling Author:Walter Karp
“Most executives have learned that what one postpones, one actually abandons ... timing is a most important element in the success of any effort. To do five years later what would have been smart to do five years earlier, is almost a sure recipe for frustration and failure.” YearsHas BeensImportantEffortFiveElementsSmartFive YearsFrustrationAbandonExecutivesTimingRecipes Author:Peter Drucker
“Success in anything important rarely comes without the Five Horsemen of Success: planning, effort, positivity, perseverance and resilience.” ImportantEffortFivePerseverancePositivityResiliencePlanningHorsemen Author:Michael Josephson
“It is my conviction that highways and I-ways have similar importance these days. My effort is to connect all 600,000 villages with optical fiber networks in the next five years.” WayYearsNextEffortFiveImportanceConvictionThese DaysFive YearsVillageHighwaysFiber Author:Narendra Modi