I find digital content much easier and more rewarding to interact with on screen than printed on paper.
TOM PETERSPassion. 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.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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Hire disrespectful people.
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Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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Leaders’ careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.
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I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
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What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?
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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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All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
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You can’t live life without an eraser.
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The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we’re going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
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Who comes first? Don’t be silly, says King Hal; it’s employees. That is – and this dear Watson, is elementary – if you genuinely want to put customers first, you must put employees more first.
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I’m fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies – in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.
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Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.
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