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Success to me means serving a calling higher than yourself that improves the lives of everyone and is done completely in the name of service.
Monopolies are bad because people get bad service for high prices. Competition is good because people get good service for competitive prices.
I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential.
Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need.
I feel that public service is so important and giving back, being a role model and helping people in need is something that I would love to do.
How can it be that we laugh about England's obsession with the royal family? At least the royal family has college degrees and military service.
As I approached my 18th birthday and prepared to enter military service in World War II, I was recommended to receive the Melchizedek Priesthood.
Dogs notice, they share, they draw conclusions, they like it when they're able to be of service and are touchingly grateful when they're praised.
The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't.
No tablecloths, silver cutlery, fine porcelain, sommeliers, or deep wine lists - that's fine. But no service or hospitality? That's going too far.
Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that's the game we're playing today.
I had the Secret Service actually patrolling my block at some point. I didn't sign up for that. I went to work to write speeches for Barack Obama!
The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.
Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.
My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.
To lose yourself in righteous service to others can lift your sights and get your mind off personal problems, or at least put them in proper focus.
In military families, the service member is frequently the breadwinner. Constant moves make steady employment a challenge for non-military spouses.
There's no service ribbon for people who fought in Korea. We lost over 30,000 men between 1951 and 1953 - as many as we lost in 15 years in Vietnam.
The idea for Chipotle is a sort of combination of food borrowed from Stars and sort of a technique and a service format borrowed from the taquerias.
The enemies cannot destroy the king who has at his service the respect and friendship of the wise men who can find fault, disagree, and correct him.
Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
If art can be at the service of anything, it's about letting us see a state of grace for those people who rarely get to be able to be seen that way.
I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service to himself and to the world.
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
I feel that business leaders with their ability to create businesses, with their ability to scale, need to play an important role in social service.
The women I know are smart, interesting people who aren't just there to service the men's stories, so I don't know why our art continues to do that.
I think community service on its own is very simple, it's a lot less complicated than having a political affiliation to it, which I fully understand.
Among us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn't mean we have to wash each other's feet every day, but we must help one another.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Companies that make keys, credit card companies, any company in the service business - anything to do with a consumer is probably a software company.
When I was 24, I co-founded a company called Athenahealth which built the first Web-based software and back-office service suite for doctors' offices.
I am mightily relieved that my holiday does not come after a long queue with the National Holiday Service, complete with bedroom-sharing like the NHS.
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
I am much obliged by the favourable sentiments you express towards me, and shall be happy if I can be of service in carrying into execution your plans.
For me, I don't want to cheat the game by saying, or kind of doing lip service by saying, I want to be the greatest ever. I want to be able to show it.
The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital part of the nation's infrastructure.
My proposal that Fed governors should signal their commitment to public service by wearing Hawaiian shirts and Bermuda shorts has so far gone unheeded.
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.
When donors visited the Black Panther Party, they came and saw our real programs, a real clinic, with real doctors and medics, giving service to people.
Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to the 9/11 Commission members for their valuable service and important recommendations to improve homeland security.
When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
Sen. Sessions' commitment to public service is nearly unparalleled in Alabama history, and his departure from the Senate leaves tremendous shoes to fill.
I think lawyers who engage in pro bono service to protect those who cannot help themselves are truly the heroes and the heroines of the legal profession.
If someone wants to transmit a high-quality service with no interruptions and 'guaranteed this, guaranteed that,' they should be willing to pay for that.
We've got ourselves into a situation where government service is somehow seen to be a political act rather than an act of civic duty or of public service.
Not raising the debt ceiling does not trigger a default, because we've got enough money to service our debts. Default is when you can't service your debt.
In 'Pox: An American History,' Michael Willrich meticulously traces the story of how the smallpox vaccine was pressed into service during a major outbreak.
I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.