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And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you’re consistent, you’re vulnerable to attack. Yes, it’s a paradox. Now deal with it!

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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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Bigger Encouraged Mistake
How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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Achieve Excellence Stuff
If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!
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Better Business Love Passion Period
Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind – and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off, connections made, insights triggered
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Connections Littles Mind
Hire disrespectful people.
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Disrespectful People Work
You can’t live life without an eraser.
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Eraser Happen Life Live
You are your projects!
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Country Execution People Projects
Hire attitude train skills.
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Attitude Skills Train
If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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Inspirational Opportunity Success
Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.
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Leader Right Timer Version War Winning
Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does.
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Challenges People Reading
Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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Accepting Change
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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People Teamwork Thinking
Usage tends to be global, while funding tends tobe local. When we allow it to happen, usage of a digital library is remarkably diverse and widespread.
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Digital Library Usage Widerspread
Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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Achievement Effective Hard Listening Work
The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.
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Customers Ideas Intimately

And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you’re consistent, you’re vulnerable to attack. Yes, it’s a paradox. Now deal with it!

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And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you’re consistent, you’re vulnerable to attack. Yes, it’s a paradox. Now deal with it!

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