Business is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
TOM PETERSHire disrespectful people.
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South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village – an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
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Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.
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Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
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I think economics is about passion. Economic progress, whether it is a two-person coffee shop or whether it is Netscape, is about people with brave ideas. Because it is brave to mortgage the house, when you’ve got two kids, to start a coffee shop.
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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
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TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven’t figured it out yet.
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You are your projects!
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Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain’t in the mean, the mode or the median – it’s in the differences that occur throughout a population.
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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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Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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I’m fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies – in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.
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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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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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