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I think it's wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.

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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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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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We're going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business - the attribute that is highest in demand and shortest in supply.
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Ready, fire, aim. Do it! Make it happen! Action counts. No one ever sat their way to success.
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Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.
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I'm about as far from being a flag-waver - you won't find any American flag pins in my drawer - as someone can be.
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One size NEVER fits all. One size fits one. Period
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Had Twitter been invented earlier, my books would have been shorter.
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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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Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it...only business people think it isn't necessary to train.
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When you choose a managerial path, you are choosing to devote your life to people. Period.
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We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.
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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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Hire attitude train skills.
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