“I called it Kinko’s because of my nickname — because I had this really kinky hair. If you think about it, the first thing a baby learns is ‘Googoo, gaga,’ and if you think of good businesses like Kodak, Xerox, Google, people remember consonants — which was why Kinko’s was a good name. But really I had this big head of curly hair and before being called ‘Kinko’ I was ‘Pube Head.’ So I thought Kinko’s was better than Pubo’s.” PeopleIfsThinkingFirstsBigsRememberNamesHairBabyGoogleNicknamesGood BusinessKinkyGagaConsonantsBig HeadsXeroxCurly HairKodakKinky Hair Author:Paul Orfalea
“If I find a great idea, I work on it at the beginning, then bring in other people to make things work. Actually, I've always been good at getting out of work.” PeopleIfsIdeasGreat Idea Author:Paul Orfalea
“If you go on vacation for one week, you'll come back to two weeks of work. If you go on vacation for two weeks, you'll come back to four weeks of work. If you go on vacation for three weeks, people seem to figure it out for themselves.” PeopleIfsTwoSeemsThreeFourWeekFiguresGoes OnVacationTwo Weeks Author:Paul Orfalea
“The people in the front lines are my customers. I need to keep them happy. And, the best way to take care of your customers is to take care of your workers.” PeopleWayNeedsCareLinesFrontsWorkersTake CareCustomersBest Way Author:Paul Orfalea
“I would get rid of the Department of Education. I would get rid of the state departments of education and let the local people control the schools.” PeopleSchool Author:Paul Orfalea
“Kids that are allegedly better students are in an elitist class in first and second grade and then they go to their high schools, they go to their universities and the normal dumb shits like me are down at the bottom. These people go to elitist schools and they replicate their elitist thoughts in the corporations.” PeopleKidsSchoolStudentsHigh SchoolBottomDumbElitist Author:Paul Orfalea
