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Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.

Tom Peters

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
Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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Entrepreneur Excellence Lasts
The company’s most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand – innovation from everyone.
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Demand Innovation Tasks
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
Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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Change Learning Past
A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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Free Library Lunch Rare
Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
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Entrepreneur Memories Views
A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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Approach Growth Passive
Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Excellence Minutes Next
Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she’d added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community.
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Business Person Real School Second
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
Sorry, but those are two of the most profoundly upsetting questions anyone can ask – upsetting because the answer should be obvious: Do what turns you on, not what the statistics say is best.
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Answer Anyone Profoundly Sorry Statics Upsetting
Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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Integrity Littles May
Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!
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Educational Funny Leadership
The principal reason, invariably, most “successful” giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact,
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Anything Change Fact Successful Worse Yesterday
TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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Decades Issues Technology

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