Quotes About Retention

Studying for 30-50 minutes at a time (with 10 minute breaks in between) is the most effective way to retain information.

Ever try to cancel an account with your cell phone company? It's not an inherently complicated act. But many phone companies make it so difficult to do because they have retention goals to hit. They want to make it hard for you to cancel so it's easier for them to hit their numbers.

Scaring away new customers is worse than losing old customers.

You shouldn't expect the job to be someone's entire life—at least not if you want to keep them around for a long time.

The company's twenty thousand workers are the best paid in the industry, but the company has the lowest labor cost per ton of steel, leads the industry in return on capital, has the lowest financial leverage of any major steel company, and has paid 142 consecutive dividends. Retaining the right people sets up the company to do lots more with less.

If a business isn't growing between 5 and 10 percent annually, the good, highly talented people won't get the responsibility and the financial rewards they want, and they'll leave.

Claudia began her studies never doubting that she could become an authority that morning. She had neither pencil nor paper to make notes. And she knew she wouldn't have a lot of time to read. So she decided that she would simply remember everything, absolutely everything she read. Her net profit, therefore, would be as great as that of someone who read a great deal but remembered very little.

Indoor cats don't lose their wildness, which is one reason I am so fascinated by them. They seem to retain all their jungly qualities no matter what.

SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.

There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it's a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO saying goodbye to a co-founder.

If we are to retain our position as the world's leading superpower, we must maintain our influence and diplomatic relationships. We cannot do that if we become known for abandoning our allies and reneging on our promises.

No one can remember more than three points.

We've found that the more products our customers have with us, the longer they stay. It's about making sure we listen to our customer needs and get to those pain points.

I want the good players of other clubs to stay in the Bundesliga.

People leave their manager; they don't leave companies.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

Pictures of me where my face was swelling, I had water retention - where you have filler, your face draws up a load of water. So my face began to swell like a balloon.

Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited.

The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.

Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering.

The natural strategic orientation of many companies is toward retaining existing customers and seeking further segmentation opportunities.

Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.

Even so, what I read often disappeared from my mind like snow on a hot pavement.

A Ned se le antojó una visión triste: una meretriz envejecida esforzándose al máximo por sacar partido a sus decrépitos encantos con tal de retener el afecto de un sacerdote viejo, corrupto y barrigudo. Algunas veces, Ned tenía la sensación de vivir en un mundo en descomposición.