All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
TOM PETERSIt 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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If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!
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The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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Don’t let the vision be shot through with holes, but be damn sure some of your best and brightest are shooting at it — with bazookas as well as sniper’s rifles.
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Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.
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Hire attitude train skills.
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He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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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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Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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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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Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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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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I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.
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Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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