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Tom Peters
Age: 82
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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I'm fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies - in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.
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Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.
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Books were rare,expensive, time-consuming to create and copy, and difficult to transport. That is why collections ofprint-based books developed around centers of religious belief, learning, and wealth. It was cheaper andeasier for people to come to the collection than for the collection, or parts of the collection, to go to thepeople.
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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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Collections of books and other documents, either printed or electronic, are a form of congregation.
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Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation - and about fundamental relations with one's fellows.
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Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.
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Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at.
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The unthinkable is thinkable. No: likely.
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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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And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you're consistent, you're vulnerable to attack. Yes, it's a paradox. Now deal with it!
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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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What gets measured gets done.
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The winners stun us not by their cleverness, but by the fact that every tiny aspect of the business is just a touch better than the norm.
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The common wisdom is that ... managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
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It's this simple: You are a brand. You are in charge of your brand. There is no single path to success. And there is no one right way to create the brand called You. Except this: Start today. Or else.
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We often hear that the digital age has resulted in a devaluing of time, space, and place. But I wonder if theseclaims are exaggerated.
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The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
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