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I don't want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as 'pops' giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.
Tom Peters
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Tom Peters
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.
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Forget all the conventional 'rules' but one. There is one golden rule: Stick to topics you deeply care about and don't keep your passion buttoned inside your vest. An audience's biggest turn-on is the speaker's obvious enthusiasm. If you are lukewarm about the issue, forget it!
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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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Perception is all there is. If the customer think he's right, he's right.
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The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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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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Collections of books and other documents, either printed or electronic, are a form of congregation.
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Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.
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Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
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Companies have got to learn to eat change for breakfast.
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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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I want the public as well as libraries and schools to enjoy unlimited access to public-domain books. This means no charges for these kind of texts themselves.
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