Paul Orfalea (Arabic: بول أورفلي) (born November 28, 1947), nicknamed "Kinko" because of his curly red hair, founded the copy-chain Kinko's.
If I find a great idea, I work on it at the beginning, then bring in other people to make things work. Actually, I've always been good at getting out of work.
The people in the front lines are my customers. I need to keep them happy. And, the best way to take care of your customers is to take care of your workers.
One day I'd like to go to the Moon and look at the planet Earth and say, 'Wow, there's part of my portfolio. '
The goal of management is to remove obstacles.
With ADD, you’re curious. You’re eyes believe what they see. Your ears believe what others say. I learned to trust my eyes.
Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future.
What makes America great is in our imagination, not in memorization. We are not a memorization-fixated culture. We can't compete with the Chinese and Japanese in memorization. Where we have been competitive is in creativity.
All my life I knew I would have a big business. That’s what I wanted from the time I was in second grade; there was never a doubt in my mind.
You can either complain or look for opportunity in every problem. I prefer opportunity.
My motto has always been that anybody can do it better than me.
Kids that are allegedly better students are in an elitist class in first and second grade and then they go to their high schools, they go to their universities and the normal dumb shits like me are down at the bottom. These people go to elitist schools and they replicate their elitist thoughts in the corporations.
Whenever I felt down, whenever I started wondering what homeless shelter I would die in, [my mother] would buck me up by telling me: you know, Paul, the A students work for the B students, the C students run the companies, and the D students dedicate the buildings.
Happy wife, happy life.
Soon we will be addicted to the federal government, and we will not want to support our local police force. I have been a believer that the government that governs best is the government that governs least.
There's no point in bragging in the good times. Your friends don't need to hear it and your enemies won't believe it anyway.