The Book

"Kim-isms": sayings, quotes, & lessons to help you learn

On Business

To be early is to be on time; to be on time is to be late; to be late is to be dead.
Take their lunch money.
Build a better mouse trap.
2 C's & 3 Ps of Management
Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely
If It Looks Like a Duck, Quacks Like a Duck, It Must Be a Duck!
Leaders manage the business down to a volume they can handle
Three types of people: Destroyers, Status Quo, and Builders
Voodoo is Doodoo
You have to do the soft stuff if you want to do the hard stuff

Working from the same recipe book
No one steals our lunch money
Balance with employees, customers, community, and shareholders
Don’t be a HAITer
Do not negotiate with terrorists
Fire Drills are for Firemen
If You Build It, They Will Come
Kissing babies and shaking hands
Master Remoteness
Moneyball
Tee Teeball management or herding cats
Who before What
You Win with People
All boats rise with rising tides

On Life

Not your donut
Definition of Luck (Change = Opportunity)
Just a blue-collar guy from Ohio
Stay in your lane.
Don’t Believe your own press clippings
Evolve or Die
Feed your own ego or feed your family, but you cannot do both
Problems can be a speed bump or a stop sign
Sleep when you are Dead
Try implies failure
You can accomplish anything as long as you don’t care who gets the credit

Good things come to those who wait
If You Eat Fish, You Become Fish!
If You Want to be an Owner, You Must Act Like an Owner
If it is not what you want, then don’t buy it!
Once You Go Down the Dark Side
Perception is Reality
Will They Follow Up the Hill in Battle
Quality is not having a checklist; It is a way of life!
Stop the insanity – doing the same thing but expecting different results
Ignorance: An Entrepreneurs best friend