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- Many business leaders today view their jobs as entailing responsibility for the welfare of the wider community. These individuals do not define themselves as profit-making…
- Since the purpose of business is to satisfy existing desires, or stimulate new ones, if everyone were genuinely happy, there would be no need for…
- In knowledge-intensive business settings, where every manager has to oversee massive amounts of information as well as people, facilitating the use of psychic energy becomes…
- Whatever the composition of a firm, if it is to do good business it should be a place where everyone is encouraged to progress toward…
- A business is successful to the extent that it provides a product or service that contributes to happiness in all of its forms.
- There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world
- It is as if evolution has built a safety device in our nervous system that allows us to experience full happiness only when we are…
- ...if we expended all our energies solely on taking care of our own needs we would stop growing. In that respect what we call "soul"…
- The downside, of course, is that over time religions become encrusted with precepts and ideas that are the antithesis of soul, as each faith tries…
- Through learning we grow, becoming more than we were before, and in that sense learning is unselfish, because it results in the transformation of what…
- Without respect, the subtle alchemy that binds an organization or that serves as the impetus for a business transaction would dissolve into mutual suspicion and…
- A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity...one must first embark on the…
- ...in the words of Max DePree: "Management has a lot to do with answers. But leadership is a function of questions. And the first question…
- Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to…
- Jane Fonda, who divided her life into three acts, decided after her sixtieth birthday that she was now facing the final act, and came to…
- However, a good life consists of more than simply the totality of enjoyable experiences. It must also have a meaningful pattern, a trajectory of growth…
- To know oneself is the first step toward making flow a part of one's entire life. But just as there is no free lunch in…
- ...perhaps the most distinguishing trait of visionary leaders is that they believe in a goal that benefits not only themselves, but others as well. It…
- When each of these three elements of vision-concern for excellence, for people and for the wider environment-are present, business is transformed from a tool for…
- Our jobs determine to a large extent what our lives are like. Is what you do for a living making you ill? Does it keep…
- We can either help to make this world a more incredible place than it has ever been, or we can hasten its return to inorganic…
- Enjoyment, on the other hand, is not always pleasant, and it can be very stressful at times. A mountain climber, for example, may be close…
- Contrary to what most of us believe, happiness does not simply happen to us. It's something that we make happen, and it results from doing…
- If we agree that the bottom line of life is happiness, not success, then it makes perfect sense to say that it is the journey…
- Some individuals have developed such strong internal standards that they no longer need the opinion of others to judge whether they have performed a task…
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- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
- I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service. — Richard Bach
- Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But… — Gerard Arpey
- I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a… — David Arquette
- I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur
- Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind… — Mary Kay Ash
- Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people. — Mary Kay Ash
- Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not… — Mary Kay Ash
- People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is… — Mary Kay Ash