Character

“It is not blindly pushing your own agenda that will really create rich opportunities in your life, career, business – and in the world. It’s is your ability to understand, appreciate, anticipate, address, add value to that of others that will.”
Rasheed Ogunlaru

Innovation

“Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it’s not necessary to be radical all the time.”

Marc Jacobs

Customer Service

“Even your most loyal customers always have a choice about where to take their business.”
Marilyn Suttle, Who’s Your Gladys?: How to Turn Even the Most Difficult Customer Into Your Biggest Fan

Creativity

“Our customers are not our competitors. We compete for them, not with them.”

T Jay Taylor

Relationship

“It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters.”
Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

Education

“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”
Anne Herbert

Gratitude

“The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.”

Criss Jami

Innovation

“Steve Jobs gave a small private presentation about the iTunes Music Store to some independent record label people. My favorite line of the day was when people kept raising their hand saying, “Does it do [x]?”, “Do you plan to add [y]?”.

Finally Jobs said, “Wait wait — put your hands down. Listen: I know you have a thousand ideas for all the cool features iTunes could have. So do we. But we don’t want a thousand features. That would be ugly. Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It’s about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.”

Derek Sivers

Gratitude

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Generosity

“Don’t think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.”
Voltaire