Your respect for others will be your ticket to success. 

I usually don’t take fortune cookies seriously, but this one is different. It was very fitting that I was having lunch with “lean” colleagues when I read it as respect for people and continuous improvement are the two pillars of the Toyota Way: 

The Toyota Way 2001

And you can frame it all around respect for people. Continuous improvement is an explicit approach of respecting others.

So needless to say I am embracing this fortune!