Don’t open a shop unless you know how to smile.

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

Aloha is free.

Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.

Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the lord. Be positive.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.

If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences.

The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business.

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’

We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall be given a square deal.

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

Keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a torch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness, you'll upgrade it, you'll fill it with prestige and power.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

I had made the religion of service my own, as I felt that God could be realized only through service.

The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.