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There is something very profound in the Angelus. The word is spoken. Mary accepts it. And as a result action takes place. In other words. Action results in accepting the Word of God. Check out today’s Saintly CEO for a reflection on the Angelus and what it tells us as Catholic entrepreneurs. Link in bio.

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“If you're an entrepreneur, you just can't help it. You have to do it. Like it's something that eventually will come out of you.” - Silas Mähner

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“Purpose and intention massively change the outcome.” - Silas Mähner

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“Well it's a really it's purpose versus reason, isn't it? You can come up with a million reasons but you can only really have one, maybe two purposes.” - Ben Black

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“We are choosing to enter into the I the the act of co-creation so that we may become an instrument of God's will in the world.” - Silas Mähner

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“If a family wants to maintain its wealth over the long period, there has to be a a sense of continued growth and continued building.” - Silas Mähner

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“We are created in the image and likeness of God. And what does that mean, right? It has nothing to do with appearances. It has everything to do with the nature of who we are.” - Silas Mähner

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“You're not doing anybody any favors leaving someone in a job they're not thriving in.” - Flip Howard

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“But to me it's not really It doesn't come from some, like you said, heady philosophical understanding of Catholic social teaching. It comes from just trying to love in a gospelsy sort of way, in a very simplistic. I just I think that people can tell when they're being used.” - Flip Howard

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“And the answer is hire the ones that would naturally do that kind of thing. It's not about changing adults. Like that was their parents' job.” - Flip Howard

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“You can keep working from the beach, but you're not gonna really move the ball forward. You're not gonna be advancing the thing while you're doing it. And that to me, that's what, you know, remote work is like.” - Flip Howard

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“It is important for kids to see their dad work. You know, not work too much, not love work, but work.” - Flip Howard

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“And rich people are surrounded by beauty all the time. And that's really the main difference between someone who's rich and someone who's not.” - Flip Howard

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“And humans are the only creatures who are able to actually participate in creation through work. And work is what makes us fully human.” - Flip Howard

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"Mother Teresa? Clearly she was ambitious. You know, would you say she had ambition? Well, that makes it seem like it was for her, but she was clearly ambitious.” - Flip Howard

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A beautiful and well-ordered exterior is a reflection of a beautiful and well-ordered interior.

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Be intentional about the workspace that you create for yourself and for your employees.

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“God will help open those doors in that path. And then I think on the human and natural level, like we're not relieved of doing the work there too, right?” - John Cannon

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“I think the hard part for me sometimes feels, though, that there are two or three viable options that it feels like God's kind of saying, like, Hey, it's up to you to choose. Right? Like at the end of the day, still want you to be, to use your agency, to use your free will...” — Silas Mähner

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“The wheat and the weeds are all together, right? A little bit in almost any human endeavor.” — John Cannon