But there’s no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.
TOM PETERSLife is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
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Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated…they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.
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If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.
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If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism – the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.
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Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through the 17-hour days (month after month) and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the start-up process.
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Business ceases to be work when you’re chasing a dream that has engorged you. (“Work should be more fun than fun” – Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn’t there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.
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Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere
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The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).
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Gandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an incredible degree-their “personal style” was their “brand.” (“It” starts with personal style of the tip-top leadership team.
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Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.
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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
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I think it’s wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
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It doesn’t matter what product or service you’re offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.
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Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.
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