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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.

Tom Peters

…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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Attitide Attitude Matter
The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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Easy Fire Wisdom Yourself
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
Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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Applause Appreciation Approval
Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Excellence Minutes Next
Even a poor, out-of-datecollection reflects in its own way the values of the people who created it and the community it serves.
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Community People Way
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
If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!
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Better Business Love Passion Period
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
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
If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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Inspirational Opportunity Success
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
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
Garbage! Intuition is the new physics. It’s an Einsteinian, seven-sense, practical way to make tough decisions. Bottom line, circa 2001 to 2010: The crazier the times are, the more important it is for leaders to develop and to trust their intuition.
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Decision Important Intuition More Practical Tough
Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it…only business people think it isn’t necessary to train.
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People Teamwork Thinking
Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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Rewards Should Teamwork

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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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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