If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
TOM PETERSPublic Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.
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Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
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The populations of most cities around the world continue to grow. The reasonspeople congregate in cities are various and complex, and the dawn of the digital age has not put much of adamper on the human urge to congregate.
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Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how “open” you are, you’ll end up surrounded by “yes people.” It’s hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.
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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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If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!
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People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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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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We’re going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business – the attribute that is highest in demand and shortest in supply.
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Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?
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If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.
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Now that I have adopted into my own daily life a device that makes music and spoken-word files easy to access from anywhere, I have tempered my skepticism.
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Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.
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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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