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Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she’d added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community.

Tom Peters

Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Products Progress Rogues
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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Concept Exhilarating Mistake Occasionally Passion Peace
For me, reading is reading.
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Good Knowledge Learn Read Reading
Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
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Entrepreneur Memories Views
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
Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere
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Everyone Everywhere Ideas Listen
Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Edify Lists Simplify
You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.
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Business Dull Lunch
Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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Business Innovation Innovative
Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
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Deliver Formula Success
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
Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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Applause Appreciation Approval
Authority never matches responsibility. That’s one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all levels know that effectiveness means building your own network and creating your own authority.
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Individual Levels Mean Military War
Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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Learning Matter Teaching
Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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Able Excellence Vision
Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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Integrity Littles May

Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she’d added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community.

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