The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
TOM PETERSYou can’t live life without an eraser.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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With most competitors moving ever faster, the race will go to those who listen (and respond) most intently.
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How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
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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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We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.
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Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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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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Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation – and about fundamental relations with one’s fellows.
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Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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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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Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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Hire attitude train skills.
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It may be primarily property taxes in the case of a public library, or state taxes and tuition in the case of an academic library at a public university, but the funding sources of most libraries continue to have a strong geographic component.
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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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Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
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