Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.
TOM PETERSWhat is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?
More Tom Peters Quotes
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Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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Even a poor, out-of-datecollection reflects in its own way the values of the people who created it and the community it serves.
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Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.
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Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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Business is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
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The populations of most cities around the world continue to grow. The reasonspeople congregate in cities are various and complex, and the dawn of the digital age has not put much of adamper on the human urge to congregate.
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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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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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Smile if it kills you. The physiology of smiling diffuses a lot of anger and angst. It makes your body and soul feel better.
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The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it’s not fun, you’re wasting your life.
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You can only improve what you measure.
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Business ceases to be work when you’re chasing a dream that has engorged you. (“Work should be more fun than fun” – Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn’t there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.
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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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