If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.

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"Hire for attitude, train for skill."

- Tom Peters

Belief

"Being aware of your own weaknesses could be your biggest strength."

- Tom Peters

Self-awareness

"Organize as much as possible around teams, to achieve enhanced focus, task orientation, innovativeness, and individual commitment."

- Tom Peters

Teamwork

"Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse."

- Tom Peters

Leadership

"Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders."

- Tom Peters

Leadership

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"You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute."

- Tina Fey

Taking Risks

"You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind. To begin, begin."

- Gordon B. Hinckley

Taking Risks

"Do not wait for the perfect time and place to enter, for you are already onstage."

Taking Risks

"If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more."

- Erica Jong

Taking Risks

"If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever."

- Thomas Aquinas

Taking Risks