I make mistakes daily, letting generalizations creep into my thoughts and negatively affect my behavior. These mistakes have taught me that the first step to successfully choosing kindness is being more mindful about it, letting go of impatience and intolerance along the way.
Daniel Lubetzky
We need to understand the other side to impact the other side. We become much more effective as humans and leaders when we engage in hearty conversations with those who are different from us, not necessarily to change our opinions, but to build the empathy muscle.
Daniel Lubetzky
Civilized discourse demands critical thinking, self-reflexiveness, sober-headed analysis.
Daniel Lubetzky
One of the magical things about kindness is that it’s what we nerds call a ‘happiness aggregator.’ People confuse kindness with being nice. And they’re very different. You can be nice and be passive. But kindness requires action.
Daniel Lubetzky
When you’re nice, you’re not bullying people. But when you’re kind, you stand up against the bully.
Daniel Lubetzky
At KIND, our purpose is to spark kindness.
Daniel Lubetzky
We’re all human, and part of being human is showing respect and support for others’ life choices.
Daniel Lubetzky
Empathy is one of our greatest tools of business that is most underused.
Daniel Lubetzky
When you’re building a business, you want to focus and deliver excellence at what you do. This simply cannot be done when you are launching multiple ventures, dozens of new products, and selling everywhere and anywhere at the same time.
Daniel Lubetzky
Growing up, I heard a lot about strength. My dad – a Holocaust survivor – embodied it, though he would never say that about himself. Not only did he survive one of the most horrific events in history, but he never lost hope along the way, crediting acts of kindness with keeping him alive.
Daniel Lubetzky
We all have a responsibility to try and make this world better, whether it’s through our work, the causes we champion, the way that we treat people, or the values we impart to the next generation.
Daniel Lubetzky
Relying on the power of kindness is a sensitive undertaking. The challenge is to inspire people to be kind more often without tainting the selflessness that comes from doing something nice with no ulterior motive.
Daniel Lubetzky
Failure holds the seeds for greatness – so long as you water those seeds with introspection, they can be the root of your success.
Daniel Lubetzky
The power of the individual, market forces, and the private sector permeate our lives. With that power comes responsibility to address huge challenges. Climate change cannot be solved by governments alone. Xenophobia, hatred, and intolerance – more business leaders have to play a role in trying to be positive leaders, civic leaders.
Daniel Lubetzky
Chaos does not unify. Chaos only serves the most extreme elements of society that seek to destabilize any semblance of order to fulfill their selfish lust for power.
Daniel Lubetzky
The rule of law, democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of expression – we cannot take them for granted. They do not exist willy-nilly across the world; they are very rare.
Daniel Lubetzky
First of all, magicians practice a lot. It requires a lot of discipline. Second, you can’t be afraid to be a leader, to go onstage, and you learn to have presence. You need to be able to visualize and connect and create. Most important, you learn to think outside the box.
Daniel Lubetzky
The advent of Kindle, the iPad, and other portable reading devices has so far simply resulted in turning analog print into digital print while keeping the same linear prose format.
Daniel Lubetzky
My dad told remarkable stories about how kindness helped him through, and he lived his life afterward always trying to make people’s lives better.
Daniel Lubetzky
When I was eight, I started what could be considered my first business, performing magic shows in Mexico City.
Daniel Lubetzky
It takes strength to be kind; it’s not a weakness.
Daniel Lubetzky
Kindness boggles my mind. It’s the only force in nature that increases simultaneously for the giver and the receiver.
Daniel Lubetzky
My dad’s life story was a string of kindness. He treated everyone as an equal, whether it was the bank teller or the bank president. He even attributed his survival to the courage of kindness.
Daniel Lubetzky
Learning how to contract your power and personality is of incredible importance.
Daniel Lubetzky
For me, work is both a hobby and a passion. And sometimes an obsession.
Daniel Lubetzky
Socially conscious brands engender more loyalty.
Daniel Lubetzky
Big failures hold better lessons than any success – as long as you are in tune with yourself and are open to learning from them. I can trace every one of my accomplishments to earlier failures that I learned from.
Daniel Lubetzky
I’m very inquisitive. I love hanging around people who can teach me. I ask a lot of questions. And I’m very introspective and self-critical.
Daniel Lubetzky
To maintain our entrepreneurial spirit, we have to create a culture in which everyone remembers that every order, big or small – and every interaction, every moment – will define what our company is today and what it will become tomorrow.
Daniel Lubetzky
No matter if we’re in a contentious situation or simply engaging in an everyday interaction, we should aspire to have the strength to be kind always. If each of us shared this aspiration, we’d all be better off.
Daniel Lubetzky
Emotional intelligence is a very important skill set, not just to be happier but also to succeed professionally.
Daniel Lubetzky
Politics is, by its nature, not my favorite thing because it’s more about dividing people, not bringing them together.
Daniel Lubetzky
Wall Street sharks will go where they smell the blood, and you cannot change that.
Daniel Lubetzky
As a society, we’re failing to recognize something my dad knew to be true – that kindness is the greatest show of strength. Too often, we are led to believe that strength is best demonstrated by exerting dominance or superiority over others, while kindness is portrayed as the opposite – a sign of weakness.
Daniel Lubetzky
I know that when you are experiencing failure, it’s pretty damn painful. It is easy in retrospect to wax poetic about it. But in the moment, you don’t think you will survive, let alone have the time to reflect on how valuable those lessons will be for you in the future.
Daniel Lubetzky
Longer distances yield local media coverage that tends to be more one-dimensional and absolute, less nuanced, and more sporadic.
Daniel Lubetzky
We strive for a culture of constant communication. Team members know in real time if there are performance issues. Team leaders know in real time if a team member is unhappy.
Daniel Lubetzky
When I was a kid, we’d go to the movies, and my parents would reach out to everyone around us in the theater, most of whom could barely afford the movie ticket. They’d hand out popcorn and Milk Duds, strike up conversations with them, lend shoulders to cry on, learn their names, and smile at everyone.
Daniel Lubetzky
I can’t tell you exactly why my work ethic is the way that it is, but I know that I will always work harder than anyone else I know.
Daniel Lubetzky
It doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from – there’s no substitute for hard work.
Daniel Lubetzky
We don’t always know exactly what we’re doing as parents. Children don’t come with instruction manuals, as the saying goes. So it’s important to me that I always question the choices I’m making as a father, to really stay alert and open to the balance between being too hard or too soft.
Daniel Lubetzky
When you’re bringing an idea to fruition, there are two distinct phases: the skeptic phase and the evangelist phase. During the first phase, you have to be willing to ask the hardest questions – is this idea worth pursuing? But once you are convinced, you flip a switch. It’s about getting it done.
Daniel Lubetzky
Tasting failure, even when you truly believe in a project, is a critical part of the growth process.
Daniel Lubetzky
I’m never going to give up – it’s part of my lifeblood to help, protect, and defend Israel.
Daniel Lubetzky
The truth is that a campaign defines how the electorate will see their president – and this all the more true when shaping the president’s image in the eyes of the largest constituency that will actually not vote for them: the international community.
Daniel Lubetzky
While domestically the president may be able to somewhat reshape his/her image through defining moments and actions, this is far less feasible internationally.
Daniel Lubetzky
Only Americans vote for their president, but foreigners care almost as much – and sometimes more – about who will lead the most powerful nation in the world.
Daniel Lubetzky
As an independent skeptical of all news stations and wanting to understand diverse perspectives, I tend to navigate between CNN, ABC, PBS, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, CNBC, and yes, FOX.
Daniel Lubetzky
Everyone that is not an ultra-conservative recognizes the irony of FOX’s ‘Fair and Balanced’ moniker, which only accentuates its actual bias.
Daniel Lubetzky
America already suffers from a uniformed and increasingly polarized citizenry. FOX seems to eagerly exploit this dynamic, and in so doing, accentuate it.
Daniel Lubetzky
I was very proud to support Obama’s presidential campaign, from the primaries all the way to his historic victory.
Daniel Lubetzky
Our world desperately needs real leadership.
Daniel Lubetzky