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Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.

Tom Peters

The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.
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Best Economy Home Secret Today
Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
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Cutting Mean Motivational Ventures
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
You can’t live life without an eraser.
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Eraser Happen Life Live
The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we’re going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
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Believe Secret Statistically World
I don’t want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as ‘pops’ giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.
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Giving Thinking Understand Years
Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Excellence Minutes Next
Bold botches are to be cherished.
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Botches Cherished Country People
A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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Free Library Lunch Rare
Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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Accepting Change
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in which audible information will be at least as important as visible information.
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Entering Important May
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
Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
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High Levels Past Standards
Those who succeed always reach far beyond formal deputation, take initiatives, and take the heat when things go awry. That’s true in the military in times of war, true for 200 person manufacturing firms, and true at giant automakers or software companies.
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Initiatives Manufacturing Reach Reputation

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