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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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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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Inspiring visions rarely (I'm tempted to say never) include numbers.
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What gets measured gets done.
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Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one's corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.
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Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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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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If silly things were not done, intelligent things would never happen.
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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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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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Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.
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You have to stand out if you want to move up.
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They say plan it. I say do it.
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The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
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Send 10-TEN!!-people flowers. Today. As Thank yous for good things small-or even large-done in the last two weeks.
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I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
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The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.
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...high end does not necessarily equal high price. It's a matter of attitude.
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If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven't figured it out yet.
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