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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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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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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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