Sublime

As you endeavor to do something amazing with your life, don’t forget that without people to support your dream, your work will always be incomplete.

Can you imagine a man who goes around shaking hands with porters and expressing sympathy for the cooks in the hot kitchen—and telling people how much he admires their dogs—can you imagine a man like that being sour and worried and needing the services of a psychiatrist? You can’t, can you? No, of course not. A Chinese proverb puts it this way: “A b

Anywhere there is an individual with life lessons to impart to an audience—more often than not, just an audience of one—there is a mentor.

It’s a reminder all these years later for everyone considering their legacy. It’s not what you say that lives on after your time; it’s not what you write or even what you build. It’s the example that you set. It’s the things that you live by.

worse to pay too little.

Any area of achievement in your life required you to stick with the basics until you became great. And yet so many businesses don’t do that.

The best people always give others more than an invitation—they provide the means to get them there.

Harry Emerson Fosdick repeated it again in the twentieth century : “Happiness is not mostly pleasure; it is mostly victory.” Yes, the victory that comes from a sense of achievement, of triumph, of turning our lemons into lemonades.

Success in business comes from helping people — bringing the most happiness to the most people. The best marketing is being considerate. The best sales approach is listening. Serve your clients’ needs, not your own. Business, when done right, is generous and focused on others. It draws you out of yourself, and puts you in service of humanity.