The reason we unlock our doors every day is…

The reason we unlock our doors every day is what my mother and father taught us and what their grandparents taught them is your family business: it exists to make the community a better place and to make the family closer and happier. If it's not providing those things, you're just kind of spinning your gears. Our family business is a tool that brings the family together in a pursuit that gives us all some opportunity and some happiness.

— from Leadership & Business (Leadership/Business)

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A business, at its best, is not a machine for extraction. The reason a good family unlocks the doors every morning is that the enterprise exists to make the community a better place and to make the family closer and happier — it is a tool that brings people together in a shared pursuit that gives everyone some opportunity and some happiness. Build that, and you've built something that creates value for everyone it touches — — the same principle Ziglar named, that you get what you want by helping enough other people get what they want, which is also the last of the rules I keep: everyone has dreams, so do what you can to help others reach theirs. — Leadership & Business (Leadership/Business)

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