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“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.”

“Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.”

“People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.”

“I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.”

“The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance.”

“If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard.”

“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.”

“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”

“If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.”

“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.”

“Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.”

“Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.”

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”

“Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.”

“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.”

“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”

“Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.”

“We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.”

“Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.”

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

“High expectations are the key to everything.”

“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.”

“Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.”

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”

“A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.”

“Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.”

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”

“It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.”

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.”