“Serving people is the best way to earn influence.”

“Do not earn wealth and lose people, for earning people is a way of earning wealth.”

“People need self-respect, but self-respect must be earned -- it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned -- and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.”

“When people criticize me for not having any respect for existing structures and institutions, I protest. I say I give institutions and structures and traditions all the respect that I think they deserve. That's usually mighty little, but there are things that I do respect. They have to earn that respect. They have to earn it by serving people. They don't earn it just by age or legality or tradition.”

“The best entrepreneurs have found a way to serve others and as a result discover their greatest fulfillment.”

“Influence can be defined as earning the right to be heard so that others are moved toward their best.Like Salt shaken out influence is hard to see, but its flavor is impossible to miss”