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If the other guy is getting better, then you'd better be getting better faster than the other guy is getting better... or you're getting worse.

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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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Collections of books and other documents, either printed or electronic, are a form of congregation.
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Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?
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There's nobody in the world that wouldn't change places with the Americans. The economy is phenomenally large, the entrepreneurial class is very alive and very well, the universities, despite budget problems, still turn out something like 90 percent of the refereed academic and technical articles in the world. There's a lot on everybody's agenda.
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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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