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 used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in which audible information will be at least as important as visible information.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to ‘tidy up’ the mess, as opposed to understanding it’s a ‘day one’ issue and part of everything.
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Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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The worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.
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I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.
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A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.
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It doesn’t matter what product or service you’re offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.
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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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The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.
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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
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The delivery and presentation media are important, and each format has its advantages and disadvantages, but ultimately I just want to read what I want to read, when and where I want.
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Become a “learning organization”. Shuck your arrogance – “if it isn’t our idea, it can’t be that good” – and become a determined copycat/ adapter/ enhancer.
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