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Paul Orfalea Quotes
18 quotes from Paul Orfalea — Founder of Kinko's (now FedEx Office), which he grew from a single photocopy shop near UC Santa Barbara into 1,200+ loc….
“Happy wife, happy life.”
“The goal of management is to remove obstacles.”
“You can either complain or look for opportunity in every problem. I prefer opportunity.”
“Make your customers comfortable and they will give you their lives.”
“Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future.”
“With ADD, you're curious. You're eyes believe what they see. Your ears believe what others say. I learned to trust my eyes.”
“If you're going to enjoy the picnic that life really is, you'd better learn to like yourself not despite your flaws and so-called deficits, but because of them.”
“There's no point in bragging in the good times. Your friends don't need to hear it and your enemies won't believe it anyway.”
“One day I'd like to go to the Moon and look at the planet Earth and say, 'Wow, there's part of my portfolio.”
“All my life I knew I would have a big business. That's what I wanted from the time I was in second grade; there was never a doubt in my mind.”
“Happy wife, happy life.”
“The goal of management is to remove obstacles.”
“You can either complain or look for opportunity in every problem. I prefer opportunity.”
“Make your customers comfortable and they will give you their lives.”
“Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future.”
“With ADD, you're curious. You're eyes believe what they see. Your ears believe what others say. I learned to trust my eyes.”
“If you're going to enjoy the picnic that life really is, you'd better learn to like yourself not despite your flaws and so-called deficits, but because of them.”
“There's no point in bragging in the good times. Your friends don't need to hear it and your enemies won't believe it anyway.”