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The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.

Tom Peters

Business is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
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Ideas Passion People
I think economics is about passion. Economic progress, whether it is a two-person coffee shop or whether it is Netscape, is about people with brave ideas. Because it is brave to mortgage the house, when you’ve got two kids, to start a coffee shop.
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Coffee Kids Passion
You can’t live life without an eraser.
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Eraser Happen Life Live
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
A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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Approach Growth Passive
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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Asking Important People
Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
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Cost Elapsed Long
I think it’s wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
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Needs Thinking World
The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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Best Leader Leader Learners
Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Educational Inspirational Success
Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.
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Ability Appropriate Committed Limits
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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Degree Leadership Sorry Team
Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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Accepting Change
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
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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Concept Exhilarating Mistake Occasionally Passion Peace
The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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Easy Fire Wisdom Yourself

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