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.
TOM PETERSI still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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Usage tends to be global, while funding tends tobe local. When we allow it to happen, usage of a digital library is remarkably diverse and widespread.
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If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.
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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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I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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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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Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation – and about fundamental relations with one’s fellows.
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Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.
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Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
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Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.
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You can’t live life without an eraser.
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The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.
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But there’s no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.
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People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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You can only improve what you measure.
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