Boretti, Inc.
Friday Quotes
“A successful business requires one simple thing: passion.”
Business is a relationship and customers can tell. Safety professionals understand the need to go beyond the “price” of their safety endeavors and management systems.
“Whenever you see a successful business, someone made a courageous decision.”
Business risk and safety go hand in hand for success. Safety professionals know this and focus their efforts to reduce risk to the human resources of the organization.
“Sustainability isn’t just about the environment: it’s about human longevity.”
Sustainability includes business longevity. Imagine what a business would face without the human skill set needed to make it successful.
“Monetary means, language spoken, literacy level, how tech savvy someone is, and more all impact ability to understand and respond to risk. DEI must be intentionally integrated into EHS to enable widespread and equitable implementation of the work we do.”
It is so easy to believe businesses are all about finance when looking from the outside. And that does make sense: after all, businesses can only survive and thrive with recurring sources of finance.
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
Leaders who start and sustain their businesses tend to have one thing in common: passion. Usually born of happiness, passion can transmit to customers as caring, which provides a positive interaction and results in retention.
“Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to.”
The biggest investment a business has is its human assets: in many ways, it’s also its biggest expense. But without the right people in the right place, a business can’t survive, let alone thrive.
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”
The typical view of owning a business is being able to set your own time for completing work. But the reality is time is that of the customer coupled with the stress of ensuring the next check can cover all bills.
“Payment in gratuity is always accepted.”
The notion that business leaders are all about money is misplaced. The same can be said about safety leaders being all about compliance.
“There is nothing impossible to they who will try.”
Ask anyone who is or has been in business and whether it’s successful or not, they’re proud to tell you at least they tried. Leaders with the characteristics and skills we look up to believe that trying is the greatest catalyst to success.
“The road to success is always under construction.”
The idea of continuous improvement stems from learning as systems are implemented. Businesses that are successful learn from what they do well, and improve upon it as they move forward.