Top 35 Daniel Lapin Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You don’t have to share everything with everybody. Not everyone must know about all parts of you – just the parts they need to know.”

— Daniel Lapin

2. “Look to the Bible for the answer. Ancient Jewish wisdom says, “Delight in serving other people.” This is the best career advice you will ever get.”

— Daniel Lapin

3. “Money is the consequence of doing the right things.”

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4. “Promise less than you deliver.”

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5. “The job of a leader is often to carry the burden of worry and concern alone to spare his followers worry over that which they, as followers, cannot change or influence even if they had all of the discomforting facts.”

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6. “Human beings thrive when they are growing and developing and this requires discipline. Discipline and accountability keep us alive.”

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7. “Opposition is a crucial part of growth and argument paves the way to wisdom.”

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8. “Give your due diligence to understanding business or you will have no place in it.”

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9. “Worthy charity helps people. Unworthy charity that completely takes over a task makes recipients of such charity dependent.”

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10. “Business is a spiritual endeavor, and it brings us closer to one another and closer to God.”

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11. “The business professional also must value his employees as well, for they are his most valuable asset. He must attend to their welfare.”

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12. “If we build into ourselves a deep understanding and conviction that serving the needs of other human beings is the reason we profit, that the reason we earn money is because we are focused on serving the needs of other people, other people will see this. We must commit ourselves to these convictions. Then and only then will the money follow. The money comes automatically.”

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13. “There is only one way to make money: finding out what other people want or need and then providing those things to as many of our fellow humans as possible. This is the only way to earn money, no matter your occupation.”

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14. “They teach children that all opinions are equally valid. But this is simply not true. When you work for someone, be they an employer or customer, your view is not as valid or important as theirs. Period. If your view is as valid as your bosses, why should you listen to them?”

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15. “Instead of focusing on imagined rewards, focus on serving God’s other children, for they are your customers.”

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16. “Work is not about doing what you want to do; work is about serving others.”

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17. “Similarly, in whatever enterprise you find yourself, practice predictability. Never impose your mood swings on your associates and customers. They should never be able to discover how your life is going. This is called being professional.”

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18. “As you navigate your professional life, you will be faced with all kinds of trials and tribulations for which there will appear no feasible solution. Do you sit there trying to figure out what to do? No, you get moving. Problems – all problems – are solved not just by sitting and thinking, but by moving and doing.”

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19. “Take out a dollar bill and look at it,” he said. “Now pat yourself on your back because you are looking at a certificate of performance.”

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20. “If you care about your customers as people – if you like, appreciate, and desire to serve them – you will be rewarded.”

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21. “Any dollar given to you voluntarily, no matter the physical form, is a certificate of performance and validation of a job well done.”

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22. “Thou may not lose one’s temper in an office, especially if thou art the boss. Out of control by you means in control by them – you’ve lost it.”27.”

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23. “In Hebrew, the Lord’s language, the word for time is ZeMaN, which is linked to the word for invitation. This serves to remind us that the passage of time is an invitation to make the most of it, to manage it effectively, and to integrate our understanding of how the world works with a true and accurate perception of the reality of time.”

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24. “On average, at least 95 percent of what you need to know you learn on the job. This is true for doctors, lawyers, nurses, investment bankers, and everyone else.”

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25. “You cannot disconnect the future from the present and you cannot disconnect the present from the past. That’s not how time works. Time moves in a continuous motion.”

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26. “The company that writes your paycheck every two weeks is not your employer; they are your customer. Adopt this mind-set and everything changes. You are free from the daily grind – free to grow your business and serve your customers, your fellow man.”

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27. “The most significant factors in our success are things we have the power to change.”

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28. “Successful business professionals seek out mentors.”

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29. “However many people you know now, you will always need to know more. You want to connect with as many people as possible to increase your chances of meeting the right people who will change your personal and professional life.”

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30. “One thing that never changes – and business owners should always remember this – is that a business cannot last without making a profit.”

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31. “Pay and profit tell you that you are supplying a need and filling other people’s wants. They are not the motivation for your work, they are the validation of your work.”

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32. “When you receive payment after supplying the needs of a client, a customer, your boss, or, if you are a member of the clergy, even a congregant, that money is testament to your having pleased another human being.”

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33. “God created us with an urge for the infinite. We need to embrace it and never surrender to the seditious and spurious summons of contentment cowering in the sanctuary of security.”

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34. “Businesses that don’t do something valuable for others do not survive and should not survive. Profit is a way to measure how useful a business is. That doesn’t ever change.”

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35. “Similarly, in whatever enterprise you find yourself, practice predictability. Never impose your mood swings on your associates and customers.”

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36. “When you make yourself interdependent with other people in this way, as Jacob told his offspring to be, there’s no stopping you. Each of you can do something, but together all of you can do everything.”

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37. “Your job next year will not resemble your job this year. If it does, either your employer is not thriving or your position in the company is not secure.”

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