The Customer

“There is only one boss: the customer.” -- Sam Walton   A successful business should be honest to its customers, good to its employees, and well-organized in its management. And when I say this, I mean that a successful business has to be all three of these things. I have…

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Integrity, or Oneness

“Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.” -- Oprah Winfrey   Oprah really hit the nail on the head with this one. It is easy to do what you're supposed to when you’re at work or out and…

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Lady Luck

“Chance favors the prepared mind.” -- Louis Pasteur A fairly large number of people that I have met and talked to seem to have this mindset that luck is what makes somebody successful. That no matter how much effort you put in, in the end, if you aren’t lucky, you…

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The Trap of Prosperity

“The minute you’re satisfied with where you are, you aren’t there anymore.” -- Tony Gwynn   If you’re not familiar with Tony Gwynn, he is a baseball player who was inducted to the Hall of Fame in 2007, and although he is not a president or a business leader, he…

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