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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
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You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.
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You can't think your way out of a box you've got to act.
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It's relatively simple. If we're not getting more, better, faster than they are getting more, better, faster, then we're getting less, no better or more worse.
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Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Now that gigabytes of accessible, malleable information can be carried in one's pocket, we probably will start to see some widespread shifts and trends in how and where people interact with digital documents.
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Perception is all there is. If the customer think he's right, he's right.
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Make an extensive table of project 'deliverables'. Label one column 'as requested'. Create another column labeled 'could be'. Make each 'could be' wild and woolly!
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Remember: You are the only human being in the world who can help this particular customer at this particular moment in time.
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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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A while back, I came across a line attributed to IBM founder Thomas Watson. If you want to achieve excellence, he said, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
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It doesn't matter what product or service you're offering there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.
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Take someone NEW AND WEIRD to lunch today
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The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.
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When it comes to e-book playback devices and software, I have always thought that the emphasis on ergonomic concerns as a tipping point for the end-user population was misplaced.
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Don't let the vision be shot through with holes, but be damn sure some of your best and brightest are shooting at it -- with bazookas as well as sniper's rifles.
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Steve Jobs is perhaps the most competitive human being I have ever met in my life, and yet I would argue one of the most artistic human beings I have ever met in my life. You can trash the movies all you want, but they do have an artistic component. And yet brutal competition knows no peers when it comes to Hollywood.
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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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People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
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