Some of the greatest businesses operating from a deeper purpose have a real commitment to service, like Four Seasons, Joie de Vivre hotels, Southwest Airlines, and JetBlue.
I flew out here on Southwest Airlines. Southwest has a plane that's painted like Shamu the whale from Sea World. Yeah, that'll be easy to find if that went down in the ocean. That'll be nice, when you're trying to get out and a real whale's humping your window.
Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
Southwest Airlines is successful because the company understands it's a customer service company. It also happens to be an airline.
Roberto Mancini's got that Italian style, the old joie de vivre.
There are many people talking about access to space and, 'How can we make that cheaper? How can we turn that into a Southwest Airlines versus the big airlines?'
Good theatre draws the energies out of the place where it is and gives it back as joie de vivre.
When I started my hotel company, Joie de Vivre, at the age of 26, I saw this venture as my ticket to freedom.
Style is a celebratory expression of your life force. You must approach it with a sense of joie de vivre.
The players notice that you love football. You still like to have a ball at your feet in training. Do you come to work with a joie de vivre? I can't give off the impression that I am under brutal pressure or fear that something could go wrong.
Embrace fanaticism. Harness joie de vivre by pursuing insane interests, consuming passions, and constant sources of gratification that do not depend on the approval of others
But I have a tremendous will to live and a tremendous 'joie de vivre,' alternating with irritability.
Autonomy: the urge to direct our own lives. Mastery: the desire to get better and better at something that matters. Purpose: the yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves. These are the building blocks of an entirely new operating system for our businesses.
Do not lose joy in life as you grow old in years. Let not your 'joie de vivre be crushed under the weight of years.
In #? France we have a saying, 'Joie de Vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it.
In France we have a saying, 'Joie de vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it.
I think I always had joie de vivre. But I had pretty bad self-esteem growing up and much of my adult life.