Paul Orfalea famous quotes

Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future.
-- Paul Orfalea

#Business #Past #Leader

Make your customers comfortable and they will give you their lives.
-- Paul Orfalea

#Educational #Giving

The goal of management is to remove obstacles.
-- Paul Orfalea

#Business #Goal #Obstacles

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.’
-- Paul Orfalea

#Moon #One Day #Earth

Happy wife, happy life.
-- Paul Orfalea

#Happy Life #Wife #Happy Wife

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.
-- Paul Orfalea

#Baby #Thinking #Hair

You can either complain or look for opportunity in every problem. I prefer opportunity.
-- Paul Orfalea

#Opportunity #Looks #Complaining

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.
-- Paul Orfalea

#Mind #Doubt #Grades

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.
-- Paul Orfalea

#Picnics #Flaws #Like You

I think everybody should have dyslexia and A.D.D.
-- Paul Orfalea

#Thinking #Should #Dyslexia

With ADD, you’re curious. You’re eyes believe what they see. Your ears believe what others say. I learned to trust my eyes.
-- Paul Orfalea

#Believe #Eye #Ears

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.
-- Paul Orfalea

#Mother #Running #Shelter

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.
-- Paul Orfalea

#Believe #Enemy #Needs

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

#Ideas #People #Great Idea