Work is love made visible.
From “On Work”, in “The Prophet” by Kahlil Gibran
And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man’s hunger.
And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your grudge distils a poison in the wine.
And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man’s ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.
I worked for the first two decades of my career (very) actively involved in starting, building, growing entrepreneurial businesses.
From all of that experience, I am clear that a key ingredient in all the most successful businesses is LOVE.
You can taste it in the food at HomeSW15, you can see it in the work of S&T Mobile Car Wash (two London businesses I am a customer and fervent supporter of, plus have written about on this blog)
Love is a word that I believe we could use a lot more in the business world, it is a simple word that makes a whole lot of difference for you, for your customers, for your business.