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Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.

Tom Peters

…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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Attitide Attitude Matter
Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Educational Inspirational Success
It doesn’t matter what product or service you’re offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.
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Anything Matter Offering Quality
Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
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Entrepreneur Memories Views
Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain’t in the mean, the mode or the median – it’s in the differences that occur throughout a population.
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Differences Educational Ideas Mean Occur
I think economics is about passion. Economic progress, whether it is a two-person coffee shop or whether it is Netscape, is about people with brave ideas. Because it is brave to mortgage the house, when you’ve got two kids, to start a coffee shop.
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Coffee Kids Passion
Business is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
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Ideas Passion People
I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in which audible information will be at least as important as visible information.
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Entering Important May
You can only improve what you measure.
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Improve Measure Only People Possible
We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.
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Doors Havoc Innovation
A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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Free Library Lunch Rare
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
If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.
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Clean Desk Company Nuts Office Policy
All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
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Congratulations Inspirational Leadership
What gets measured gets done.
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Done Inspirational Customer Service Measurement
Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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Information Portability Should
Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.
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Differences Public Speaking Skills
What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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Decide Important Probably
The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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Best Leader Leader Learners
Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.
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Educational Inspirational Loyalty
You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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Boxes Thinking Way
Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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Essentials Knowing Loss
Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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Age Library Resources
Become a “learning organization”. Shuck your arrogance – “if it isn’t our idea, it can’t be that good” – and become a determined copycat/ adapter/ enhancer.
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Arrogance Ideas Organization
The common wisdom is that … managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
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Common Motivation People
A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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Approach Growth Passive
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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Academic Library Strong Tuition

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