Quotes About Retention

To Retain those who are present, be loyal to those who are absent.

Human selfishness being what it is, almost everyone kept the pleasant task for themselves.

However, people are often willing to produce a lot of collateral damage if they can retain their theory.

Jordi Sierra i Fabra

In the book 'That Will Never Work' by Marc Randolph, Reed Hastings gives Marc advice on starting a new company: You need the same people to return and use your product. You need something that is consumed; once a movie is done you need another one. The market of new customers is limited. There is no way you can succeed if you must keep finding new customers. - Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix

Getting your message in front of the right people in the right place at the right time using the right channels is the right thing to do. But what if the real optimization that needs to take place is from acquisition-led efforts to retention-led ones [retention, consolidation, and referrals]? p. 18

They memorize everything and learn... nothing.

The Jews who have arrived would nearly all like to remain here.

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

I'm horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad.

I am terrible at remembering names.

Education is about remembering stuff and I could never remember anything, so I didn't get an education.

I'm not good at remembering things, in general.

There are a lot of people who want to retain the Eighth Amendment - I don't agree with that view myself - there are others who want to remove it, but when you ask them what that means, they aren't able to tell you.

There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.

On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.

In the Roman commonwealth, even on the conversion of the monarchy into a republic, the old was as far as possible retained.

Several decades of research have shown that learning retention depends less on the person or the topics involved than on the delivery system. What is striking is that our traditional educational system commonly uses the two least effective methods available: lecturing and reading, through which, respectively, only 5 and 10 percent of what is taught is retained. At the other end of the spectrum, an impressive 90 percent retention rate applies to whatever one teaches others!

It is rather his mind has so wide a range, and so rich a retention, that he simply cannot understand that ordinary folk do not always follow him. 'I little imagined,' he said, 'that I should find you in the posture of Sir Isaac Newton.' Oh dear, I thought, here it comes again. What on earth was the meaning of *that*? So I just said No... and went fiddling with the oil-squirter, trying to remember things about Newton.

It's easy. Treat employees fairly and respectfully. Listen to them. Help them get what they want and need. Thank them. Challenge and develop them. Care about them, and you will engage and retain them.

William Glasser: "We learn 10 percent of what we read, 20 percent of what we hear, 30 percent of what we see, 50 percent of what we see and hear, 70 percent of what we discuss, 80 percent of what we experience, and 95 percent of what we teach others.

She had learned that somewhere and stockpiled it in the back brain closet, the same closet where she stored information about Daryl Hannah being in Splash and Esperanza Diaz being the wrestler dubbed Little Pocahontas, the same closet that helped make Grace, in Jack's words, "Mistress of the Useless Factoid.

My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.

The purpose of every business and organization is to get and keep customers.