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With most competitors moving ever faster, the race will go to those who listen (and respond) most intently.

Tom Peters

Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Misreading Odds Persistent
Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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Information Portability Should
Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Edify Lists Simplify
Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
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Inspirational Leader Ultimate
Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind – and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off, connections made, insights triggered
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Connections Littles Mind
You can only improve what you measure.
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Improve Measure Only People Possible
Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Educational Inspirational Success
Dot the i’s, cross the t’s, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil is in the details.
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Devil Entrepreneur Phones
The principal reason, invariably, most “successful” giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact,
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Anything Change Fact Successful Worse Yesterday
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
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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Age Cities Congregate Digital
Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Excellence Minutes Next
Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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Entrepreneur Leader Organization
The widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs.
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Abet Availability Information
Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does.
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Challenges People Reading
Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
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Entrepreneur Memories Views

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