You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
TOM PETERSLife 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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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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Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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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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He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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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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Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.
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Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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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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Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it…only business people think it isn’t necessary to train.
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Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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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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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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