Good Service Quotes

• The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.

  Sun Tzu

  Country, Military, War

  Sun Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, p.61, Xist Publishing

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• Good leaders must first become good servants.

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Leadership, Future Leaders, Firsts

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Encouragement, Freedom, Business

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

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• Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

  Bill Gates

  Leadership, Business, Motivation

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• It's a very, very tough market.
  So unless you do a really good job, you buy the right products from the manufacturers, you service the customer, they keep coming back, they bring their friends in, it's all about numbers, numbers, numbers.

  John Ilhan

  Inspirational, Jobs, Numbers

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  This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspiring, Country, 4th Of July

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.63, Taylor Trade Publications

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• There is a spiritual aspect to our lives - when we give, we receive-when a business does something good for somebody, that somebody feels good about them!

  Ben Cohen

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Giving

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  We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

  Winston Churchill

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• There is only one boss. The customer.

  Sam Walton

  Business, Loyal Customers, Boss

  "2010 BPM and Workflow Handbook" by Layna Fischer, Future Strategies Inc., (p. 178), 2010.

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• If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Business, Investment

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 22, 2016

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• Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can't deliver good service from unhappy employees.

  Tony Hsieh

  Inspirational, Service Culture, Focus

  "Zappos Milestone: Q&A With Tony Hsieh". Footwear News Interview, footwearnews.com. May 4, 2009.

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• There is no higher religion than human service.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Community Service, Helping, Public Service

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• Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

  Madame de Stael

  Happiness, Sweet, Nature

  "A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness" collected and translated by J. D. Finod, (p. 138), 1880.

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• The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free.

  Robert Breault

  Inspiration, Volunteer, Community

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• To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Careers, Community Service, Helping

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• Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

  Norman MacEwen

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Leadership, Sports, Spiritual

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  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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• He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.

  Confucius

  Business, Volunteer, Team Building

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• Good service leads to multiple sales. If you take good care of your customers, they will open doors you could never open by yourself.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Caring, Doors

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 13, 2015

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• Let the good service of well-deservers be never rewarded with loss. Let their thanks be such as may encourage more strivers for the like.

  Elizabeth I

  Loss, May, Rewards

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• Abraham Lincoln was asked by an aide about the church service he had attended. Lincoln responded that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent and the topic relevant. The aide said, “Then it was a good service?” Lincoln responded, “No.” The aide protested, “But, Mr. President, you said that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent, and that the topic was relevant.” “Yes,” replied Lincoln, “but he didn’t challenge us to do any great thing.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Church Service, Interesting, Challenges

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• The old river in its broad reach rested unruffled at the decline of day, after ages of good service done to the race that peopled its banks, spread out in the tranquil dignity of a waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth.

  Joseph Conrad

  Race, Rivers, Darkness

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Heart of Darkness”, p.19, eKitap Projesi

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• We cannot all see alike, but we can all do good.

  P. T. Barnum

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• I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.

  Charles Dickens

  Lying, Mean, Ambition

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.5760, Delphi Classics

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