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Formula for success: Underpromise and overachieve.

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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
Businessperson
Economist
Writer
Baltimore
Maryland
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Success
Business
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OLD: Be No.1 or No.2 in Your Market. NEW: Find a Niche, Create Something New.
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When you choose a managerial path, you are choosing to devote your life to people. Period.
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Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones, and live with paradox will be the effective leader's premier trait.
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If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I've gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time.
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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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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.
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Lavish credit on anyone and everyone who helped you the least bit.
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