Paul Orfalea quotes
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“Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future.”
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“Make your customers comfortable and they will give you their lives.”
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“The goal of management is to remove obstacles.”
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“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.’”
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“I called it Kinko’s because of my nickname — because I had this really kinky hair. If you think about it, the first thing a baby learns is ‘Googoo, gaga,’ and if you think of good businesses like Kodak, Xerox, Google, people remember consonants — which was why Kinko’s was a good name. But really I had this big head of curly hair and before being called ‘Kinko’ I was ‘Pube Head.’ So I thought Kinko’s was better than Pubo’s.”
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“You can either complain or look for opportunity in every problem. I prefer opportunity.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I think everybody should have dyslexia and A.D.D.”
-- Paul OrfaleaSource : Source: pdr.autono.net
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“With ADD, you’re curious. You’re eyes believe what they see. Your ears believe what others say. I learned to trust my eyes.”
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“Whenever I felt down, whenever I started wondering what homeless shelter I would die in, [my mother] would buck me up by telling me: you know, Paul, the A students work for the B students, the C students run the companies, and the D students dedicate the buildings.”
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“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.”
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“If I find a great idea, I work on it at the beginning, then bring in other people to make things work. Actually, I've always been good at getting out of work.”
-- Paul Orfalea
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