No animal ever “served” another animal; but service, giving of oneself to others, is at the core of what it means to be a human and at the core of the quest for career success.

You may think that you can remain uninfluenced by the things you hear, but it just isn’t so.

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” More and more, it seems like people want wealth, but they don’t want to work for it.

Find a little private quiet time each day to bow your head in recognition of all those who knowingly or unwittingly contributed to what you are and to what you have today. By performing this little exercise regularly,

If you are trying to attract and acquire something, you need to know as much as possible about that thing first.

Rotary allows relationships to develop within an environment of caring for others ; any subsequent business benefit is secondary to those friendships, which is just the way it works best.

Anyone with a sneaking suspicion that socialism has a point, that people and their abilities are finite, is forever handicapped as a businessperson. If the pie is of a fixed size, one creates nothing, merely taking from others.

Never miss or ignore an opportunity to make new friends and to nurture existing ones. You can always make a point of accepting invitations to others’ happy events; and, yes, you can always make a point of attending others’ sad events, too. In other words, engage in ongoing community building activities. These days, everyone is busy; it is all too

“Take out a dollar bill and look at it,” he said. “Now pat yourself on your back because you are looking at a certificate of performance. If you did not rob or steal from anyone to obtain that dollar, if you neither defrauded anyone nor persuaded your government to seize it from a fellow citizen and give it to you, then you could only have obtained