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Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.

Tom Peters

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
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
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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Business Creativity Fun
Leaders trust their guts. “Intuition” is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a “soft” notion.
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Decision Leader Rap
Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Misreading Odds Persistent
Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
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Inspirational Leader Ultimate
Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does.
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Challenges People Reading
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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Positive Productive Work Simple
Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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Information Portability Should
If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism – the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.
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Ambiguity Era Flaws Mars Unprecedented Volatility
Hire disrespectful people.
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Disrespectful People Work
Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Products Progress Rogues
The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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Best Leader Leader Learners
Sorry, but those are two of the most profoundly upsetting questions anyone can ask – upsetting because the answer should be obvious: Do what turns you on, not what the statistics say is best.
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Answer Anyone Profoundly Sorry Statics Upsetting
The worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.
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Defend Thing Worse Yesterday
Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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Accepting Change

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