See and be seen. Get out of your office, walk around, make yourself visible and accessible.
Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.
It’s the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class.
Take good care of your employees, and they’ll take good care of your customers, and the customers will come back.
Great companies are built by people who never stop thinking about ways to improve the business.
View the problem as an opportunity to grow.
Eliminate the cause of a mistake. Don’t just clean it up.
Entrepreneurs are never satisfied. They want to do things better. They strive for perfection and use all the ingenuity to their command to achieve it.
Choose your friends wisely-they will make or break you.
Communicate. Listen to your customers, associates and competitors.
A man should keep on being constructive, and do constructive things. He should take part in the things that go on in this wonderful world. He should be someone to be reckoned with. He should live life and make every day count, to the very end. Sometimes it’s tough. But that’s what I’m going to do.
Customer needs may vary, but their bias for quality never does.
No matter how hard you work for your money, there’s always someone out there willing to work twice as hard to take it away from you.
It’s more important to hire people with the right qualities than with specific experience.
I’ve felt that dissatisfaction is the basis of progress. When we become satisfied in business, we become obsolete.
Do it and do it now. Err on the side of taking action.
No person can get very far in this life on a 40 hour week.
Celebrate your people’s success, not your own.