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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.

Tom Peters

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
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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Concept Exhilarating Mistake Occasionally Passion Peace
The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to ‘tidy up’ the mess, as opposed to understanding it’s a ‘day one’ issue and part of everything.
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Design Issues Mistakes Something Understanding
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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Consider Deligated Jobs Leader
Garbage! Intuition is the new physics. It’s an Einsteinian, seven-sense, practical way to make tough decisions. Bottom line, circa 2001 to 2010: The crazier the times are, the more important it is for leaders to develop and to trust their intuition.
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Decision Important Intuition More Practical Tough
And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you’re consistent, you’re vulnerable to attack. Yes, it’s a paradox. Now deal with it!
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Business Remembers Everything Vulnerable
Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
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Inspirational Leader Ultimate
Dot the i’s, cross the t’s, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil is in the details.
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Devil Entrepreneur Phones
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.
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Ability Appropriate Committed Limits
Usage tends to be global, while funding tends tobe local. When we allow it to happen, usage of a digital library is remarkably diverse and widespread.
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Digital Library Usage Widerspread
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
Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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Applause Appreciation Approval
Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she’d added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community.
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Business Person Real School Second
I think it’s wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
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Needs Thinking World
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
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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Facts Life Reinvented White

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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