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1) Don't sell anything you wouldn't buy yourself; 2) Don't work for anyone you don't respect and admire; 3) Work only with people you enjoy. Charlie Munger - Vice Chairman Berkshire Hathaway (1924-2023)

If there’s one reason we have done better than all of our peers in the Internet space over the last six years, it is because we have focused like a laser on customer experience. Jeffrey P. "Jeff" Bezos - American company founder: Amazon (b. 1964)

Simplicity has a way of improving performance. Charlie Munger - Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (1924-2023), Quotations book 2020

Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion. Simon O. Sinek – American author, speaker and optimist (b. 1973), from a "Twitter" message on 28th February 2012 (since 2023 "X"), printed in "Together is Better: A Little Book of Inspiration" (p. 105, 2016) see...

Artists are apostles of beauty. Pope Francis - born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, since 2013 Holy Father (b. 1936), in an interview with Wim Wenders in his film "Pope Francis: A Man of His Word" (2018)

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does. Napoleon Hill - American writer: "Think And Grow Rich" (1883-1970), Quotations book 2019

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment. John Wooden - American basketball player and coach (1910-2010), Quotations book 2019 see more at CoachWooden.com

Hire for attitude, train for skills. Herbert D. "Herb" Kelleher - American entrepreneur, co-founder of Southwest Airlines (1931-2019), Quotations book 2019

The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things. No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and always unpredictable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary people perform better than they seem capable of, to bring out whatever strength there is in its members, and to use each person’s strength to help all the other...

Customers will never love a company until the employees love it first. Simon O. Sinek - American author, speaker and optimist (b. 1973), from "Leaders Eat Last Deluxe: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don"t" (2014), Quotations book 2019 see Startwithwhy.com

It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it. Aiden Wilson Tozer - American evangelical pastor and author (1897-1963), from "The Pursuit of God", chapter 10 (1948)

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world. John le Carré – born David John Moore Cornwell, British author (1931-2020), Quotations book 2018

The art of relaxing is part of the art of working. attributed to John Ernst Steinbeck - American writer, Nobel Prize in Literature 1962 (1902-1968), Quotations book 2018

Wishful thinking can dominate much of the work of a profession for a decade, but not indefinitely. Prof. Robert J. Shiller – American economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in economic sciences 2013 (b. 1946), in "From Efficient Market Theory to Behavioral Finance" (2002)

Cookery simulates the disguise of medicine, and pretends to know what food is the best for the body; and if the physician and the cook had to enter into a competition in which children were the judges, or men who had no more sense than children, as to which of them best understands the goodness or badness of food, the physician would be starved to death. Medicinam igitur coquinaria subiens...

I have never worked a day in my life without selling. If I believe in something, I sell it, and I sell it hard. Estée Lauder - born Josephine Esther Mentzer, American Company founder (1906-2004), in the documentary "Estée Lauder: The Sweet Smell of Success" (1985), Quotations book 2018

Work is love made visible. Khalil Gibran - Lebanese Maronite poet, philosopher and artist, aka Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931), from "The Prophet (1923), Quotations book 2018

I"d rather interview 50 people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person. Jeffrey P. "Jeff" Bezos - American company founder: Amazon (b. 1964), Quotations book 2018