Quotes About Service

Least I feel as if I'm doing something. Making shells, like. Least I'm not just sitting on my bum while them boys get shot to bits over there.

La grandeur du peuple juif, c'est justement d'apporter aux autres, même si les autres ne veulent pas entendre - c'est tikkun olam même pour ceux qui ne veulent pas entendre. [youtube, watch?v=jlVMft1jtiE]

then it occurred to him that a worthy man dedicates himself not to one particular thing which attracts him, but to all tasks; and he

Self-seeking is self-destruction

Uncrown, and fill a servant's place.

The only way to create value for yourself is to create value for others.

Freedom to help ourselves so that we can help others. Freedom to live the life we choose to lead, instead of having to live the life that has been chosen for us.

Often the best way to make friends and customers for life is to direct them to a better service or product than yours. Be the source of valuable information rather than the source of your "product of the day.

Don't forget to always give extra. A simple effort will get you a customer for life.

The absolute best, surefire way to make a good living is to help someone else make a good living.

The real way to get wealth is to find a customer and perform a service for that customer. Then repeat.

Often the best way to make friends and customers for life is to direct them to a better service or product than yours.

If a small town doesn't have a laundromat, and if you open one up, you can be pretty confident you'll have customers. If your laundromat is unique in any way, then perhaps you can scale it.

Leadership doesn't ask the question "How good can I get? How far can I get?" Leadership asks the question "How far can the people around me get?

Leadership is not about achieving your dream. It's about helping everyone else achieve their dreams.

For all policemen were bright enough to know who they were working for, and they were not working, anywhere in the world, for the powerless.

You can accomplish anything in life, provided that you do not mind who gets the credit. —

Level 5 leaders embody a paradoxical mix of personal humility and professional will. They are ambitious, to be sure, but ambitious first and foremost for the company, not themselves.

Level 5 leaders display a workmanlike diligence - more plow horse than show horse.

Even though many people think that being a great leader means being ambitious and having a certain reputation, this is not true at all.

Level 5 leaders: ambition first and foremost for the company and concern for its success rather than for one's own riches and personal renown.

In combat deployment (where he earned a Silver Star for bravery and two Purple Hearts), Smith gained the central insight that would power Federal Express from an idea into a viable business, from a business into a great company. Like Manchester, he realized that people will do unreasonable things to come through—not for grand ideas or incentives or bosses or hierarchies or even recognition, but for each other.

Nordstrom • Service to the customer above all else • Hard work and individual productivity • Never being satisfied • Excellence in reputation; being part of something special Philip

Yesterday, because of Mrs. Struan's letter to him, he had been confronted with an immortal truth: however loyal you are to a company, however much service you give "the company," the company can and will spit you out at its whim, without conscience.