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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Tom Peters

Oh Lord, there it is again. The question;” What kind of business should I start?” Incidentially, it has a twin that also sets me off: “What should I specialize in during the second year of my MBA studies?”
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Business Incidentally Sorry Specialization Years
The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.
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Deviltry Mad Passion Race
Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
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Entrepreneur Memories Views
I’m fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies – in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.
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Business Country Growth Real
You can only improve what you measure.
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Improve Measure Only People Possible
What gets measured gets done.
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Done Inspirational Customer Service Measurement
Smile if it kills you. The physiology of smiling diffuses a lot of anger and angst. It makes your body and soul feel better.
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Better Body Feel Soul
Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated…they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.
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Bigger Encouraged Mistake
Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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Change Learning Past
It may be primarily property taxes in the case of a public library, or state taxes and tuition in the case of an academic library at a public university, but the funding sources of most libraries continue to have a strong geographic component.
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Academic Library Strong Tuition
I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in which audible information will be at least as important as visible information.
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Entering Important May
One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.
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Human Lovely Pay Tribute
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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Positive Productive Work Simple
Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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Accepting Change
Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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Learning Matter Teaching
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.
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Miserable Stuff Trying Way

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