Paul Orfalea Quotes

“Happy wife, happy life.”

“The goal of management is to remove obstacles.”

“You can either complain or look for opportunity in every problem. I prefer opportunity.”

“Make your customers comfortable and they will give you their lives.”

“Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future.”

“With ADD, you're curious. You're eyes believe what they see. Your ears believe what others say. I learned to trust my eyes.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Some people say they have dyslexia. I got the real thing.”

“I get bored easily, and that is a great motivator. I think everybody should have dyslexia and ADD.”

“If you don't have savings, it's harder to keep your integrity. Don't be a slave to anybody.”

“I couldn't read. I couldn't sit still. I had no mechanical ability. What sort of future awaited me?”

“My learning disability gave me certain advantages, because I was able to live in the moment and capitalize on the opportunities I spotted. With ADHD, you're curious. Your eyes believe what they see. Your ears believe what others say. I learned to trust my eyes.”

“Your business is an instrument to make you happy; you own it — it doesn't own you.”

“When you're 20, you care about what people think about you. When you're forty, you don't really care as much about what people think about you. When you're sixty, you realize people were never thinking about you in the first place.”

“He's a nonlinear thinker.”