Quotes from Daniel Lapin

God created us with an urge for the infinite. We need to embrace it and never surrender to the seditious and spurious summons of contentment cowering in the sanctuary of security.

Success is always more likely when you are swimming with the current rather than against it.

The business professional also must value his employees as well, for they are his most valuable asset. He must attend to their welfare.

Worthy charity helps people. Unworthy charity that completely takes over a task makes recipients of such charity dependent.

You cannot disconnect the future from the present and you cannot disconnect the present from the past. That's not how time works. Time moves in a continuous motion.

Give your due diligence to understanding business or you will have no place in it.

we are all in business—all of us who work and provide services to our fellow man.

for the most part people prosper when they behave decently and honorably toward one another and live among others who conduct themselves similarly.

Similarly, in whatever enterprise you find yourself, practice predictability. Never impose your mood swings on your associates and customers.

Similarly, in whatever enterprise you find yourself, practice predictability. Never impose your mood swings on your associates and customers. They should never be able to discover how your life is going. This is called being professional.

The job of a leader is often to carry the burden of worry and concern alone to spare his followers worry over that which they, as followers, cannot change or influence even if they had all of the discomforting facts.

the wealth and poverty gap observed between countries is predominately the result of differences in culture.

They teach children that all opinions are equally valid. But this is simply not true. When you work for someone, be they an employer or customer, your view is not as valid or important as theirs. Period. If your view is as valid as your bosses, why should you listen to them?

When you receive payment after supplying the needs of a client, a customer, your boss, or, if you are a member of the clergy, even a congregant, that money is testament to your having pleased another human being.

Pay and profit tell you that you are supplying a need and filling other people's wants. They are not the motivation for your work, they are the validation of your work.

Opposition is a crucial part of growth and argument paves the way to wisdom.

Promise less than you deliver

When you make yourself interdependent with other people in this way, as Jacob told his offspring to be, there's no stopping you. Each of you can do something, but together all of you can do everything.

Businesses that don't do something valuable for others do not survive and should not survive. Profit is a way to measure how useful a business is. That doesn't ever change.

Your job next year will not resemble your job this year. If it does, either your employer is not thriving or your position in the company is not secure.

egalitarianism allows them to use the term "sir" in very few instances.

money isn't just physical; it's a spiritual reality. It's "spiritual" in that it isn't about folded pieces of paper, and it isn't about what those little slips of paper can buy. It is about people and relationships. Money is the buzz; the connection that makes our interpersonal networks rich and fulfilling.

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The agile business professional is always looking to provide new services and the next product before the public even knows they need them.