Quotes About Observation

Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.

I feel these days like a very large flamingo. No matter what way I turn, there is always a very large bill.

There is nothing as easy as denouncing. It don't take much to see that something is wrong, but it does take some eyesight to see what will put it right again

See every crack, every detail. I learned to really see and not just look at my business.

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

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

Be subtle! be subtle! and use your spies for every kind of business.

We watch our competitors, learn from them, see the things that they were doing for customers and copy those things as much as we can.

You need to know exactly where you stand in a business at all times. Measure everything, because everything that is measured and watched improves.

For me photography is not an intellectual process. It is a visual one.... Whether we like it or not, we are involved in a sensual business.

If you stay half-alert, you can pick the spectacular performers right from your place of business or out of the neighborhood shopping mall, and long before Wall Street discovers them.

The artist's business requires an involvement in practically everything... The total scope of information he receives day after day is of concern.

Every adviser told me to study the company, learn the business for the first 90 days and don't make any decisions. I couldn't resist seeing broken things and immediately taking action.

You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

I watch every day when we hit and take ground balls and the way we go about our business. If I saw any lackadaisical approach, that would concern me.

Etiquette is what you are doing and saying when people are looking and listening. What you are thinking is your business.

A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.

I've done the same thing in the world of business that winners do in the game. I watch them, admire them.

Tracking account planning is rather like counting a mixed batch of tropical fish. You think you see patterns, but they've all changed by the time you've finished counting.

The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story.

With a camera like that you don't believe you're in the masterpiece business. It's enough to be able to peck at the world.

The only way to know how customers see your business is to look at it through their eyes

I go too fast to see much, only the tops of everything. I've got to prowl slow some time through this country.