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Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.

Tom Peters

Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!
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Enemy Procrastination Thinking Worst
Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Excellence Minutes Next
The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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Athlete Crafts Way
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
Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
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Cost Elapsed Long
Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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Information Portability Should
You can only improve what you measure.
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Improve Measure Only People Possible
People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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Digital Library People
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
Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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Learning Matter Teaching
Fact is, the work place to a great extent is “where we live.” We need star accountants. Boffo saleswomen. Over-the-top creatives in marketing and new product development.
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Caring Stars Talking
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
If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.
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Clean Desk Company Nuts Office Policy
Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
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Improvement Pursuit Support
Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Products Progress Rogues
You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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Boxes Thinking Way

Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.

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