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Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.

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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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One potential long-term problem with many current digital libraries is that they grew out of and aresupported by bricks-and-mortar libraries. Although there is nothing inherently wrong with that arrangement, inreality it creates a potentially dangerous situation that I call the other digital divide.
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A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good - similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.
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Now it is much faster and cheaper to bring thedocument to the user, rather than ask the user to come to the document or collection.
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Hire disrespectful people.
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My half-baked reading of history is that we continue to go through these waves of entrepreneurial explosion followed by merger mania and consolidation. Out of that come big sluggish companies that eventually collapse under the weight of what they've created, and are killed off by the next wave of entrepreneurs.
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Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does. Having tried this for several months, however, I can report from the trenches that, for me, immersive listening is as intellectually challenging, stimulating, and rewarding as immersive reading.
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I am confident that for the foreseeable future (barring some catastrophic event affecting economic, energy, electrical, and communications systems), many subpopulations that use information intensively (e.g., students, academics, library patrons, white collar workers) will be using some sort of portal information appliance.
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Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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One size NEVER fits all. One size fits one. Period
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Leaders' careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.
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The 'value added' for most any company, tiny or enormous, comes from the Quality of Experience provided.
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Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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...high end does not necessarily equal high price. It's a matter of attitude.
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Hire for attitude. Train for skill... More
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I think economics is about passion. Economic progress, whether it is a two-person coffee shop or whether it is Netscape, is about people with brave ideas. Because it is brave to mortgage the house, when you've got two kids, to start a coffee shop.
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Anybody who is an entrepreneur is a person who essentially has impaired judgment. The odds of success are zilch. This valley is loaded to the gills with a whole lot of totally insane people who honest to God believe that they can be the next Bill Gates or the next Scott McNealy. And that is genuinely stupid.
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Think about the market, think about the design, and think about who is going to design for that market. Hit the mark.
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Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Winston Churchill said that appetite was the most important thing about education. Leadership guru Warren Bennis says he wants to be remembered as 'curious to the end.' David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity 'about every subject under the sun.'
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Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade.
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