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.
TOM PETERSYou can’t live life without an eraser.
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You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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Sorry, but those are two of the most profoundly upsetting questions anyone can ask – upsetting because the answer should be obvious: Do what turns you on, not what the statistics say is best.
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Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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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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One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.
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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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Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services – from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants – are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz.
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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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Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.
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Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
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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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A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good – similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.
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The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.
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Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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