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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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Even a poor, out-of-datecollection reflects in its own way the values of the people who created it and the community it serves.
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Hire for attitude. Train for skill... More
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Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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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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I am confident that for the foreseeable future (barring some catastrophic event affecting economic, energy, electrical, and communications systems), many subpopulations that use information intensively (e.g., students, academics, library patrons, white collar workers) will be using some sort of portal information appliance.
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Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain't in the mean, the mode or the median - it's in the differences that occur throughout a population.
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Think about the market, think about the design, and think about who is going to design for that market. Hit the mark.
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OPPORTUNITY is not knocking. It is pounding on your door.
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An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones, and live with paradox will be the effective leader's premier trait.
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Steve Jobs is perhaps the most competitive human being I have ever met in my life, and yet I would argue one of the most artistic human beings I have ever met in my life. You can trash the movies all you want, but they do have an artistic component. And yet brutal competition knows no peers when it comes to Hollywood.
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I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.
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Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.
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Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
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The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
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The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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We often hear that the digital age has resulted in a devaluing of time, space, and place. But I wonder if theseclaims are exaggerated.
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I'm about as far from being a flag-waver - you won't find any American flag pins in my drawer - as someone can be.
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In the great city of San Francisco, where I used to live, at 2 in the morning every other Victorian house has somebody who is writing the great American novel. And the city is not loaded with James Joyces or Virginia Woolfs. But entrepreneurship is about distorted views of reality.
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Have you thanked a front-line employee for carrying around a great attitude ... today?
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