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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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Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
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The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.
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Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.
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Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does. Having tried this for several months, however, I can report from the trenches that, for me, immersive listening is as intellectually challenging, stimulating, and rewarding as immersive reading.
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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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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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