John Caudwell quotes

“People are much more important than superficial environments.”
-- John Caudwell

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“Really good customer service will deliver sales. You are training salesmen to give the best possible advice and then to achieve the sale. People actually like you to ask for a sale because it shows you value their business.”
-- John Caudwell

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“E-mails are the cancer of modern business.”
-- John Caudwell

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“I saw that e-mail was insidiously invading Phones 4u so I banned it immediately.”
-- John Caudwell

Source : "Firm bans e-mail at work", www.cnn.com. September 19, 2003.

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“I believe in workers rights when people are doing a good job. If somebody needs support I am always there, but if they're taking the piss, I am hard on them.”
-- John Caudwell

Source : "Gruff and tough operator rings off with a billion" by Jane Martinson, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2006.

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“Sometimes your worst competitors are the ones which are dying because they do stupid things.”
-- John Caudwell

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“As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some sort.”
-- John Caudwell

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“I was always interested in ladies' fashion.”
-- John Caudwell

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“Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it--even of my own music--with the same nuances forever.”

“Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.”

“Life is more important than 'what film I do next.”

“Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.”

“Over the long term, it is more profitable to do the right thing for the environment than to pollute it.”

“Many of our partners are here and this is where the world's expertise on environment and the wider sustainability agenda often and regularly gathers. Here is where international initiatives frequently start and are nurtured. Geneva is one of the hubs where global programs can be often most effectively managed.”

“So much beauty in the world, so few eyes to see it.”

Source : "How to Stop Time" by Anna Della Subin, www.nytimes.com. September 26, 2014.

“Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.”

“I still think that being thrown in a very competitive environment where you really have to see what you are made of - certainly when you come out of nowhere - was good for me.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com