Aaron Bolin > Aaron's Quotes

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

“Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies...”
― Eileen Chang

“Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.”
― Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark

“What’s hard is designing a service model that allows average employees—not just the exceptional ones—to produce service excellence as an everyday routine.”
― Frances Frei, Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business

“Leadership, at its core, is about making other people better as a result of your presence—and making sure that the impact lasts in your absence.”
― Frances Frei, Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business

“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
― Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress