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

Tom Peters

The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.
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Customers Ideas Intimately
A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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Free Library Lunch Rare
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
Your calendar never lies. All we have is our time. The way we spend our time is our priorities, is our strategy. Your calendar knows what you really care about. Do you?
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Calendar Care Lying Priorities
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
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
Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
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Entrepreneur Memories Views
The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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Easy Fire Wisdom Yourself
The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
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Culture Mistake Punishment
Leaders’ careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.
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Careers Leadership Two
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
People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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Digital Library People
Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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Business Mistake Training
Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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Accepting Change
Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind – and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off, connections made, insights triggered
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Connections Littles Mind
He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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Prototype Reign Work

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

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