The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
TOM PETERSKnowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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You can only improve what you measure.
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To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.
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Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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Business ceases to be work when you’re chasing a dream that has engorged you. (“Work should be more fun than fun” – Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn’t there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.
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The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it’s not fun, you’re wasting your life.
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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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Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.
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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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Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.
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What have you done lately – this week – to make yourself stand out? What would your colleagues or your customers say is your greatest and clearest strength? Your most noteworthy (as in, worthy of note) personal trait?
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Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated…they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.
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A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good – similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.
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Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.
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Leaders trust their guts. “Intuition” is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a “soft” notion.
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