Quotes About Community

Sitting in the pews wringing our hands about decay in the world is not being salt. Neither is decrying the evil without offering positive alternatives.

Your income is determined by how many people you serve and how well you serve them.

I learned something that day. When I said that my life as a mom, wife and household manager left me with nothing the marketplace wanted, I was wrong. There was something else I'd learned over those years, and that was how to be a friend. How to care. How to make people feel good about themselves. And that, my friends, is something the marketplace wants very much—always has, always will.

Or to put it another way, Your compensation is directly proportional to how many lives you touch.

Your income is determined by how many people you serve and how well you serve them." She

Bob and John mean be a giving person, period: one who gives thought, gives attention, gives care, gives focus, gives time and energy—gives value to others.

By a network I don't necessarily mean your customers or clients. I mean a network of people who know you, like you, and trust you. They might never buy a thing from you, but they've always got you in the backs of their minds. They're people who are personally invested in seeing you succeed... They're your army of personal walking ambassadors.

Draft beer, not people.

There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country.

Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends.

Subscribe to your local newspaper. Donate to your public radio and TV stations. If you read 'The New York Times' or 'The Washington Post' or 'The Guardian' or the 'Chicago Tribune' online, subscribe to them. In point of fact, journalistic information is not free. It is dear--in every way. If you complain about fake news but don't pay for real news, you are part of the problem.

A lot of charity is driven on pity. No one needs pity. A lot of people just need access to affordable capital to start or sustain businesses to support their families and their communities. And when I looked closely, the projects I lent money to through Kiva all made practical business sense.

There is a lot to life beyond the computer screen. There is food and music and art and friendship and talking and laughing and flowers and sports and, as you say, an argument down at the pub. To say that the internet changed everything is simply an alarming assertion for an intelligent person to make. You are spending way too much time in front of a computer screen.

I want you to know that evangelism is not about closing a sale. Evangelism is about loving people.

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

A hungry mob is an angry mob.

One love, one heart . . . Let's get together and feel all right

Herb is the unification of mankind.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

People, people who need peopleAre the luckiest people in the world.

Help others get ahead. you will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders.

the best way to earn the goodwill of your neighbor is to ask either explicitly or implicitly, "What can I do to be useful to you?

It is a book that challenges the reader to action, and in taking that action, to greater service to themselves, their families, their communities, and their Maker.