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Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.

Tom Peters

Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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Information Portability Should
The company’s most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand – innovation from everyone.
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Demand Innovation Tasks
Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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Entrepreneur Leader Organization
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
Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Educational Inspirational Success
Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Misreading Odds Persistent
I don’t want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as ‘pops’ giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.
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Giving Thinking Understand Years
Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.
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Leader Right Timer Version War Winning
…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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Attitide Attitude Matter
Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
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Entrepreneur Memories Views
If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.
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Clean Desk Company Nuts Office Policy
The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we’re going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
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Believe Secret Statistically World
The good news – and it is largely good news – is that everyone has a chance to stand out. Everyone has a chance to learn, improve, and build up their skills. Everyone has a chance to be a brand worthy of remark
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Builds Chance Everyone News Skills
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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
Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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Integrity Littles May

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