Stop selling. Start helping.
The servant-leader is servant first... It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first.
I think a great leader is somebody who realizes it's not about them, it's about the people that they're serving, that they're really other-directed rather than self- directed.
I look for officers who are strong in character – we can teach the skills necessary to do the job but it’s more challenging to find those who are there for the right reasons.
Service is life. No service means, spiritually no life.
You are an uncut gemstone of priceless value. Cut and polish your potential with knowledge, skills and service and you will be in great demand throughout your life.
It's service, not status, that counts.
The shortest distance to leadership is service.
Above and beyond, not only are we an innovation company, we are in service of our clients.
Zappos is a customer service company that just happens to sell shoes.
I just want to serve people. I know it sounds like a simple cliche.
The secret to missionary work is work. Work, work, work!
I can promise you. If you work 12 hours, I will work for 13. If you work 14 hours, I will work for 15 hours. Why? Because I am not a ‘pradhan mantri’, but a ‘pradhan sevak’.
Remember the people you address are selfish, as we all are. They care nothing about your interests or profit. They seek service for themselves
Mitt doesn't like to talk about how he has helped others because he sees it as a privilege, not a political talking point.
Great women and men are always more anxious to serve than to have dominion.
Leaders must be reminded that Businesses exist for the service of men.
From the business point of view - not to overstate it - intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.
People don't want gadgets, they want services.
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
I think my service is better than my food... I focus so much on the service.
If you think of the product as a service, then the separate parts make no sense - the point of a product is to offer great experiences to its owner, which means that it offers a service. And that experience, that service, comprises the totality of its parts: The whole is indeed made up of all of the parts. The real value of a product consists of far more than the product's components.
In any Christian view of life, self-fulfillment must never be permitted to become the controlling issue. The issue is service, the service of real people. The question is, 'How can I be most useful?', not, 'How can I feel most useful?'
We were raised in a family that had high aspirations for their children, and those high aspirations tended to be along the lines of service and high-minded beliefs, living up to your responsibilities. Both my Danforth grandparents admired service very much.
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
