Quotes About Empathy

In financing growing companies, we always looked for human value that didn't appear on the balance sheet.

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.

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.

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.

Do not address your readers as though they were gathered together in a stadium. When people read your copy, they are alone. Pretend you are writing to each of them a letter on behalf of your client.

Sell to their needs-not from yours.

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

Being a good human being is good business.

Your needs will be met once you can find a way of projecting energy and fulfilling someone else's need.

You can never go too far wrong by thinking like a customer who's new to the business.

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

They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.

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

What if compassion is also profitable? What if compassion is also good for business?

Half the business is done, when one has gained the heart and the affections of those with whom one is to transact it.

In any business, the more you learn, the more sympathetic you can be to other people's positions.

How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.

I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.

What people have to say is none of my business. They all have their own issues that make them say and do whatever they need to do.

I'm not in the being-annoyed business.

In business it's about people. It's about relationships.

I think, you know, a lot of the business of comedy is taking your personal experiences and making them relatable to other people.

You can't run a business based on sympathies; otherwise our business would be hampered.