What did famous people say about listening?

“Every man I meet is in some way my superior, and I can learn from him.”

                                      Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius.”                            Karl Menninger

“It is better to remain quiet and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.”

                                      Abraham Lincoln

“Listen long enough and the person will generally come up with an adequate solution”

                                      Mary Kay Ash

“People who accomplish things do more listening that talking.”

                                      Irving Shapiro, former chairman of DuPont

“The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say.”                     Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart

“You ain’t learnin’ nothin’ when you’re doin’ all the talkin’.”

                                      President Lyndon B. Johnson’s office sign as a Senator

“People will flood you with ideas if you let them.”

                                      Peter Smith, General Signal

“A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years’ study of books.”                         Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The way to stay fresh is you never stop traveling, you never stop listening.  You never stop asking people what they thing.”

                                      Rene McPherson, former chairman, Dana