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OLD: Be No.1 or No.2 in Your Market. NEW: Find a Niche, Create Something New.

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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through the 17-hour days (month after month) and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the start-up process.
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I found myself declaiming, full flower, for an hour on the utmost importance and urgency of Blogging, telling him in no uncertain terms that, especially in a high-end niche business, Blogging is the premier way to have intimate conversations with his Clients. Funny thing, I believe it!
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MP3 players and flash memory devices are good for data storage and playback of music and digital talking books, but they offer little or nothing in the way of visual presentation of information and communication.
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Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.
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A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?
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...high end does not necessarily equal high price. It's a matter of attitude.
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Forget all the conventional 'rules' but one. There is one golden rule: Stick to topics you deeply care about and don't keep your passion buttoned inside your vest. An audience's biggest turn-on is the speaker's obvious enthusiasm. If you are lukewarm about the issue, forget it!
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If, as I anticipate, a wide array of personal, portable information/communication devices becomes increasingly important and widespread for information-intensive users, it will be a major challenge for libraries to adapt their content and services to such a diverse technological environment.
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The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it...only business people think it isn't necessary to train.
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Transforming leadership, [is defined as] leadership that builds on man's need for meaning, leadership that creates institutional purpose ... he is the value-shaper, the exemplar, the maker of meanings ... he is the true artist, the true pathfinder.
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If silly things were not done, intelligent things would never happen.
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You can't think your way out of a box you've got to act.
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Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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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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Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.
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We are all Michaelangelos.
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Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.
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