John Ilhan famous quotes

If you treat staff as your equal, they'll roll their sleeves up to get the job done.
-- John Ilhan

#Jobs #Done #Staff

It was quite tough, not many opportunities. I remember in primary school, one of my teachers said, "As for you young man, you haven't got much of a future."
-- John Ilhan

#Inspirational #Teacher #School

It's a very, very tough market. So unless you do a really good job, you buy the right products from the manufacturers, you service the customer, they keep coming back, they bring their friends in, it's all about numbers, numbers, numbers.
-- John Ilhan

#Inspirational #Jobs #Numbers

Don't let anyone say you can't do it.
-- John Ilhan

#Inspirational

This may seem simple, but you need to give customers what they want, not what you think they want. And, if you do this, people will keep coming back.
-- John Ilhan

#Business #Thinking #Simple

It takes a lot more to run a good business than just trailing commissions or kickbacks otherwise everybody would succeed, wouldn't they?
-- John Ilhan

#Running #Business #Succeed

We react very quickly in the market. We can make quick changes.
-- John Ilhan

#Marketing

Don’t let anyone say you can’t do it. To be successful, you need to fail. The more failures you have, the more successes you will have. People just don’t get that.
-- John Ilhan

#Successful #People #Needs

Don’t let anyone say you can’t do it. To be successful, you need to fail. The more failures you have, the more successes you will have. People just don’t get that.
-- John Ilhan

#Successful #People #Needs

Sometimes things are the way they are and can't be changed, other times it's because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.

An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.

I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.

A busybody's work is never done.

The single most powerful element of youth is that you don't have the life experiences to know what can't be done.

Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film

As you get bigger, you have to learn to delegate. It's also an excellent way to get staff involved in the company's operations.

I didn't feel the need to have a lot of yes-men standing around me. As Mitchell Sharp once put it, the bigger the staff, the smaller the minister.

Many of the earmark request forms are actually filled out by lobbyists and then just turned in by the member's staff to the appropriations committee.

If you treat staff as your equal, they'll roll their sleeves up to get the job done.