Quotes About Understanding

Managers and investors alike must understand that accounting numbers are the beginning, not the end, of business valuation.

Ignore the stock market, ignore the economy, and buy a business you understand.

It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens, how confusions that seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard.

Never underestimate your own ignorance.

Grammar is what gives sense to language .... sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And the business of the study of sentences is grammar.

If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that.

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.

If, at the close of business each evening, I myself can understand what I've written, I feel the day hasn't been totally wasted.

Compassion is to share the pain without sharing the suffering.

it's not my business," Scrooge returned. "It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.

The only way one should buy stocks is if you understand the underlying business. You stay within the circle of competence. You buy businesses you understand.

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and suffer punishment.

For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

Sell to their needs-not from yours.

The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.

A model should be as simple as it can be but no simpler

Selling - at its core - is not a business transaction. It is first and foremost the forging of a human connection.