These virtues are important to apply business-wide: to your customers, to your employees, to your vendors and to yourself!

Virtues: behaviors showing high moral standards. Do they belong in business? You bet they do! Do they exist in business? Maybe not as often as they should!

Being virtuous in the business world doesn't equate to being soft! You still need to be a savvy entrepreneur and dominate your field. However, doing so with these virtues in your toolbox, you have the potential to build incredible trust, loyalty and commitment with your customers, your staff and your vendors. If you are able to create an ecosystem that breeds this kind of reciprocal respect, you'll have people eating out of your hand. Customers will want to buy from you, staff will work their tails off for you and vendors will clear their calendars to do business with you!  H. Jackson Brown, Jr., author of Life's Little Instruction Book, gives us 5 insightful virtues that will enrich your life and anchor your success. Brown's 21 Suggestions for Success makes us take a good look at where success comes from.

Anyhoo...I publish these business tips and motivational quotes to get you fired up for your work week!

Check out the summary of more business tips and motivational quotes from my Instagram page which you hopefully got to see in real time! If not, let's make sure we're following each other on Instagram!! So...here is the round up of Instagram images of My Top Business Tips and Motivational Quotes.

Virtues in Business #1:

“Be loyal.”

Virtues in Business #2:

“Be honest.”

Virtues in Business #3:

“Be forgiving of yourself and others.”

Virtues in Business #4:

“Have a grateful heart.”

Virtues in Business #5:

“Be generous.”

The Bottom Line?

As with anything else, it boils down to having balance. Build a solid business that can grow by referrals so you don't have to burn your energy always looking for the next job. How do you get referrals? Do your job and do it well. Clients will notice the good service and come back for repeat biz...and send their friends/colleagues to you, too! Check out 21 Suggestions for Success from H. Jackson Brown, Jr for more inspiration. Let me know in the comments below which of these habits have made an impact on you!

You can find more Top Business Tips & Motivational Quotes and other tips for success in my book, But Are You Making Any Money?.

xoxo M

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