I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.
And if after all this you eventually fail; don't take it personal. Don't be ashamed to start all over again.
If you don't have time for the small things, you won't have time for the big things
You get the idea. Every business, like a painting, operates according to its own rules. There are many ways to run a successful company. What works once may never work again. What everyone tells you never to do may just work, once. There are no rules. You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over, and it's because you fall over that you learn to save yourself from falling over. It's the greatest thrill in the world and it runs away screaming at the first sight of bullet points.
If you look for the best in your employees, they'll flourish. If you criticize or look for the worst, they'll shrivel up. We all need lots of watering.
The way you treat your employees is the way they will treat your customers
Breaking the rules and challenging convention is in the DNA of every successful entrepreneur.
. . . he did not want me to seek the whys, because there are some things that happen for which we can formulate no whys, for which whys simply do not exist and, perhaps, are not necessary.
How do you know there’s not a door to heaven in the sky between Malaysia and Vietnam?
I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
TRUCE, n. Friendship.