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Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.

Tom Peters

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
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
…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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Attitide Attitude Matter
The company’s most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand – innovation from everyone.
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Demand Innovation Tasks
How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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Achieve Excellence Stuff
The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
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Business Educational Inspirational
What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?
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Next Strategy Volunteer
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
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
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
All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
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Congratulations Inspirational Leadership
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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Age Cities Congregate Digital
The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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Business Competition Excellence
Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
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Inspirational Leader Ultimate
Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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Business Innovation Innovative
We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.
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Doors Havoc Innovation

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