a revolution in kindness |
Be nice, for everyone that you meet is fighting a harder battle |
I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently . . . This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten. |
I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs |
I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in. |
I've got power, I've got influence, and I've got money, but I'm not sure how much longer I'm going to hang around in the company. |
If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing? |
If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just. |
If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito. |
Let me tell you how the French seduce you. They are the most bloody seductive people on Earth. They are charming, they are well-mannered and they praise and flatter you. |
Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking. |
Over the past decade, ... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda. |
Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer. |
The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you. |
There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it. |