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Hire disrespectful people.

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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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Dot the i's, cross the t's, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil is in the details.
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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.
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My half-baked reading of history is that we continue to go through these waves of entrepreneurial explosion followed by merger mania and consolidation. Out of that come big sluggish companies that eventually collapse under the weight of what they've created, and are killed off by the next wave of entrepreneurs.
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To grasp organizational life as it is, read novels (!) .... It is my fervent belief that we will never design rational processes that overcome such irregularities-don't bother telling that to a consultant. Hence, we should embrace the real, nonrational, nonlinear world with vigor and glee-and develop enterprise and career strategies accordingl
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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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You can't live life without an eraser.
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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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I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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Leaders' careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.
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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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Ready, fire, aim. Do it! Make it happen! Action counts. No one ever sat their way to success.
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...high end does not necessarily equal high price. It's a matter of attitude.
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The unthinkable is thinkable. No: likely.
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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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Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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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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The delivery and presentation media are important, and each format has its advantages and disadvantages, but ultimately I just want to read what I want to read, when and where I want.
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