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If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.

Tom Peters

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
If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!
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Better Business Love Passion Period
Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
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Cost Elapsed Long
I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.
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Book Digital Hard People Print
Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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Essentials Knowing Loss
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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Business Mistake Training
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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Biotech Business Cease Dream Engorged
If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.
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Asking Important People
Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.
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Appreciate Assets Business
Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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Accepting Change
The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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Best Leader Leader Learners
With most competitors moving ever faster, the race will go to those who listen (and respond) most intently.
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Faster Moving Race
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
A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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Free Library Lunch Rare
Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how “open” you are, you’ll end up surrounded by “yes people.” It’s hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.
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Believe Friends Ideas

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