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"Seize the day: most old people wished they'd taken more risks. And enjoy your family when they're young"	Jerry Entrepreneur and Business Development Consultant	Marketing Strategy & Action Ltd Business Innovation Centre Coventry
If you get stressed out battling through issues with your senior manager - choose the one or two issues a week you can influence and give them everything you've got. Let the other 10 or 12 issues go by. You may not achieve everything you would like to see, but on important matters you have done your best. Relax in the knowledge	Geoff Makin Environmental Health Manager (Commercial)	Coventry City Council www.covenvhealth.org.uk
"Set realistic, achievable but ambitious objectives that have good or excellent chances to lead to profitability - and work hard to achieve them."	Kenneth Thomson Chairman, The Thomson Organisation	Learn to Earn. Published by Business Wise, 1996. Written by: Spark Partners C. Powell & P. Richardson
The one tip I would offer anyone would be 'write it down' - make lists of everything you have to do as you do it - and keep the list and review what you have been doing weekly - it's amazing what we can achieve by monitoring ourselves factually!	Pete Turner Bread and Circuses	Instilling the instinct to create !
The two tips I would pass on to anyone in management are :- Catch your staff doing something right. Pick your battles - is this one really worth the fight?	Mark Jarvis Technical Pre-Sales Manager	Fujifilm Graphic Systems Fujifilm Graphic Systems supply Professional Pre-Press equipment and consumables to the Print, Graphic Arts and Design markets. Fujifilm is a multinational organisation researching, developing, manufacturing and supplying imaging and information products to professional and consumer markets. www.fujifilm.co.uk/
You can not talk yourself out of something you have behaved yourself into.	Rob Martin	"Into The Buttercup" Training and Consultancy Bradford
"It's getting the work done, and done well, through others that is the essence of management. Managers who achieve through their own personal efforts in doing the work are engaging in self defeating behaviour" Marshall Shaskin	Geoff Makin Environmental Health Manager (Commercial)	Coventry City Council www.covenvhealth.org.uk
Everything we do in everyday life, could be done better and we should always be willing to learn and to change. And even the smallest improvement is worth while.	Pete Wise	Switzerland
Momentum is everything	Richard Baker	Age Concern England
Knowing what to do is vital. Doing what you know makes the difference	Colin Wilson	PerformanceProcess.com Personal and Professional Development Consultants; High Performance Coaching
One tip to owners/management -- Get a life! (or keep one.) If you lose your relationships, friends, health, sanity to win a business, is it worth it?	David Depledge Chief Executive	Association of Christian Counsellors
"You must know your product, how it is made, what it costs and how you can make it better than your competitors"	David Sainsbury Chairman, Sainsbury's	Learn to Earn. Published by Business Wise, 1996. Written by: Spark Partners C. Powell & P. Richardson