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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
Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere
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Everyone Everywhere Ideas Listen
Now that I have adopted into my own daily life a device that makes music and spoken-word files easy to access from anywhere, I have tempered my skepticism.
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Essay Music Spoken Tempered
One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.
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Human Lovely Pay Tribute
The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.
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Blue Office Revolution White
I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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Age Believe Internet
A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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Approach Growth Passive
The world has not just “turned upside down”. It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.
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Accelerating Pace Way World
Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.
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Appreciate Assets Business
A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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Free Library Lunch Rare
Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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Able Excellence Vision
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
Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated…they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.
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Bigger Encouraged Mistake
The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.
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Customers Ideas Intimately
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
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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Inspirational Life Motivational

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