How To Be A Good Boss

• Begin with praise and honest appreciation.
• Call attention to people’s mistakes indirectly.
• Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.
• Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.
• Let other person save face.
• Praise the slightest improvement. Be “hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.”
• Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to.
• Use encouragement. Make the faults seem easy to correct.
• Make the other person happy about doing the thing you suggest.
• To forget is a crime. To be lazy is a greater crime. To neglect work and offer excuses is the greatest crime. Action without delay is the soul of efficiency.
• Unless the job means more than the pay, it will never pay more.
• Unless you are willing to drench yourself in your work beyond the capacity of the average man, you are just not cut out for position at the top.
• We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing while others judge us by what we have already done.
• Tell it well, To sell it well.
• Treat your coworkers as members of an orchestra; you will have symphony.
• Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve!
• When I was a young man we had ten cows and we did very well. When I was thirty we had twenty cows and we did no better. When I was forty we had forty cows and we were barely making it. Now I’m seventy and we have seventy cows, and are not making it at all.
• When a man has equipped himself by thought and study for a bigger job, it usually happens that promotion comes along even, before it is expected.
• Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
• When concluding a business deal to your favour and the other person suggesting working out the details later. Settle the entire matter there and then. Don’t move from the table unless you have got it signed by the other party.
• When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favour of each one – then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments, the pros and cons and canceling them out, one against the other, I take the course indicated by what remains.
• When possible make the decisions now, even if action is in the future. A reviewed decision usually is better than one reached at the last moment.
• When you find someone doing small things well, put him in charge of bigger things.
• Whoever buys, Should have two eyes, But one’s enough, To sell the stuff.
• Wild elephants are caught by tame; With capital it is the same: In business those have enough scope, Whose stock-in-trade is work and hope.
• With money in your pocket, your are wise, and you are handsome, and you sing well too.
• Without a doubt it’s bad business, to talk about your bad business.
• Business is not only a war but a sport also.
• All business is based on probabilities, beliefs and judgments, there are no certainties.
• The more we grow in business, the greater becomes our capacity to empty ourselves of the old so that the new may enter and we may, thereby be transformed.

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