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Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.

Tom Peters

The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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Athlete Crafts Way
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
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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Differences Public Speaking Skills
Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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Business Innovation Innovative
Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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Applause Appreciation Approval
Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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Integrity Littles May
I think economics is about passion. Economic progress, whether it is a two-person coffee shop or whether it is Netscape, is about people with brave ideas. Because it is brave to mortgage the house, when you’ve got two kids, to start a coffee shop.
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Coffee Kids Passion
You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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Boxes Thinking Way
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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Book Digital Hard People Print
South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village – an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
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Challenges Competition Tools
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
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
…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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Attitide Attitude Matter
The worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.
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Defend Thing Worse Yesterday
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
Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Products Progress Rogues

Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.

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