Self Service Quotes:

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: "The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better". Book by Richard Leider, p. 35., 2010.

topic: Encouragement, Freedom, Business, Way In Life, Social Good

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

- Will Durant

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Daily Work, Top Management

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

- Dale Carnegie

source: Dale Carnegie (2012). “The Leader In You”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

topic: Inspirational, Cute, Friendship, Making Friends, Influencing People

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

- Rabindranath Tagore

topic: Inspirational, Commitment, Insperational, Spiritual Awakening, Spiritual Joy

Self, service, substance is the Divine order and nothing counts until we give ourselves.

- Vance Havner

topic: Self, Divine Order, Giving, Self Service

I saw a sign at a gas station. It said 'help wanted'. There was another sign below it that said 'self service'. So I hired myself. Then I made myself the boss. I gave myself a raise. I paid myself. Then I quit.

- Steven Wright

topic: Work, Opportunity, Self, Self Service

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

- W. Edwards Deming

topic: Inspirational, Business, Profit, Customer Experience, Inspirational Customer Service

When you do the right thing, but not to any particular person, we instinctively feel that we have earned some sort of pay back. Since no-one will do that for us, we opt for self-service reciprocation.

- Julian Baggini

source: "Goodies behaving badly" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2010.

topic: Self, Pay, Feels, Self Service

Self-checkout is negative because more and more retailers are losing the personal touch. People want to do business where people know their name and communicate with them. With a world full of email and more self-service we will begin to start seeking out the basics from retailers who create emotion. There is not emotion out of self-service and most people buy out of emotion.

- Debbie Allen

topic: Names, Self, People, Checkouts, Personal Touch

I'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.

- Al Yankovic

topic: Self, Gas Stations, Use, Stranded, Self Service

I started my career as a sales guy in the nineties, when the funnel was controlled by the sales rep, who had all the information the prospect wanted, including pricing and discount options. Now 90 percent of it has swung to marketing. It's self-service and you need to be very, very helpful to see to the top of the funnel. The game has changed a lot.

- Brian Halligan

topic: Self, Games, Careers, Discounts, Self Service

We use similar products. Our focus industry is healthcare and hospitality. But we haven?t done anything interactive. The first day full of seminars is full of things I thought would be useful: quick service restaurant and mobile phone applications. Businesses are providing more services and products by self-service means.

- Milton Jones

topic: Self Service, Seminars

Selfishness draws men into a spiritual vacuum where, absorbed in self service, they shut out all others.

- William R. Bradford

topic: Spiritual, Men, Self, Self Service

We cannot allow employers in Germany to pay hourly wages of 50 cents and shift the remainder of the burden to the taxpayer. After all, we want to create jobs, not open a self-service shop for resourceful employers.

- Angela Merkel

topic: Jobs, Self, Germany, Self Service

The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts -the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria -are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.

- Edward Dahlberg

topic: Heart, Self, Energy, Cafeteria, Merchants

I went to a massage parlor, it was self service.

- Rodney Dangerfield

topic: Funny, Humor, Self, Self Service

Understanding is becoming aware of the fact that civilization itself is in trouble and we have done it by overpopulating the planet, and by moving toward self-service and greed. These sort of things are directly the wrong approach.

- Edgar Mitchell

source: Source: www.edgemagazine.net

topic: Moving, Self, Civilization, Self Service

I was always looking at Helmut Newton photos with the Le Smoking suit and Stella Tennant in Self Service magazine. It was never just about an ultrafeminine woman for me.

- Hari Nef

source: Source: wwd.com

topic: Self, Smoking, Magazines, Stella, Self Service