Integrity and Honesty

Robert Nesta 'Bob' Marley

Hello, Friends! This evening I'm sharing sixteen (16) of the quotes I viewed, today, with themes of honesty and integrity.  As you know, these characteristics are crucial for living honorably and our conducting our businesses nobly, everyday.  Therefore, these quotes serve more as affirmations we can speak and post in our spaces to remind others of the importance of functioning in honesty and integrity, all of the time.

”The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

”Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.”
~ Oprah Winfrey

"Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching."
~ George Van Valkenburg

”Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.”
~ Mary Kay Ash

“To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.”
~ Douglas Adams

"Like integrity, love of life was not a subject to be studied, it was a contagion to be caught. And you had to catch it from someone who had it."
~ Lois McMaster Bujold

Business Beginnings: A Glass Table, Studio Apartment and Three People

TekscapeIT

Hello, Everyone! In today's video the David Smith, Founder of Tekscape, shares some of the details of Tekscape's beginning. Tekscape is an internet technology (IT) business that can incorporate a full comprehensive approach to all of one's technology solutions and management. The categories of solutions they provide are Unified Collaboration, Network Infrastructure, Virtualization and Cloud Services. Their categories for services they provide are Managed Support, Monitoring & Alerting, Desktop/Server Support and Equipment Procurement. Since 2011, the year-date of this video, they have experience a minimum of 100% growth in annual sales, and new-client acquisition since their inception.

Three of my favorite 'shares' from this video are about:

1. when and where his business idea came to him/to his mind
2. what factors enabled his business' growth, and
3. how he and his team of two more people worked around a table in his studio apartment and moved forward from there 

The Bottom Line of Her Road to Entrepreneurship

Spanx

A Montage of Atlanta, GA (USA)

Hello, Everyone! By now, Friends, you've probably heard about Spanx foundation/under-garments, based in my hometown,  Atlanta, GA. However, you may not know of the not-so-smooth path, its Founder, Sara Blakely took to launch her business, nor where the idea for Spanx originated. In the video, here, she shares details that may surprise you, since her business is so great and the product is so beloved. For example, she hadn't taken any business classes, never worked in fashion nor retail and had been selling fax machines door-to-door, at the time! Did you know that due to the pricey cost of having a patent attorney write her patent, she read a book on the subject and then wrote her own patent for Spanx?  Have you heard her funny story about "lycra", "lacquer", and a deeply-Southern accent. Have you heard why she chose new-to-the-industry, bright-red packaging, and three animated/illustrated females on the packaging for Spanx?  Did you know about the year and a half of bad names, including /Open-toed Delilahs', and how the name "Spanx" came to her?  She shares all of that in this video.

I thought it would be great to share this video because in the process of telling her story, we hear that the path to accomplishing an entrepreneurial heart's desire can be unusual and a faith-walk in which one, literally, figures out what to do as a step is taken. Sara Blakely thought about her product and what she wanted to achieve with it, and for it, and took steps of action in those directions. She believed in the concept so much that what could have been dream-killers / heart's-desires-killers did not stop her from moving forward!  That is a great lessen and attitude toward dream-killers.