As a leader, you need to care deeply, deeply about your people while not worrying or really even caring about what they think about you. Managing by trying to be liked is the path to ruin.
Use money and love people. Don't love money and use people.
If you're thinking about your brand over your people, you've lost yourself.
The importance of detachment from things, the importance of poverty, is that we are supposed to be free from things that we might prefer to people. Wherever things have become more important than people, we are in trouble. That is the crux of the whole matter.
The Bible teaches that we are to love people and use money, but we often get that reversed and you start loving money and using people to get more money. Money is simply a tool to be used for good.
Never put your family, friends, or significant other low on your priority list. Prefer a handful of truly close friends to a hundred acquaintances.
And by the right thing, I mean that whatever step we take next, the first criteria we should consider is the people who have been loyal to us, thus far, which is primarily our audience.
People are more important than things.
I treasure my friends but not my possessions.
If more people had put their fellow human beings before abstractions last century, we shouldn't be where we are now.
Women will always put persons above ideas ... and so they'll always be defeated. Persons die, and ideas rule the world.
My rule is always, People first and things second.
Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than the person that's closest to us. And you just gotta remember not to take for granted that person that's closest to you.
We need to start prioritizing people, not polar bears. We're probably less adaptable than them, anyway. The farther you are from the Beltway, the more you can have a conversation about climate no matter how people vote. I never try to politicize the issue.
I realized it's a wonderful quality to be able to spend your energy on people who are actually worth it.
People are far more important than rigid rules and demanding expectations.
Let there be worse cotton and better men.
