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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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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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Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
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It's this simple: You are a brand. You are in charge of your brand. There is no single path to success. And there is no one right way to create the brand called You. Except this: Start today. Or else.
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Take someone NEW AND WEIRD to lunch today
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It doesn't matter what product or service you're offering there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.
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To sell is above all to master the art and science of listening.
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Who, precisely, are your Dreamers? Are their Dreams in Technicolor? Do you allow their most Outrageous Dreams to be seen in public?
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Now that gigabytes of accessible, malleable information can be carried in one's pocket, we probably will start to see some widespread shifts and trends in how and where people interact with digital documents.
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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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Only pissed-off people change the world.
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The unthinkable is thinkable. No: likely.
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Lavish credit on anyone and everyone who helped you the least bit.
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What gets measured gets done.
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There's nobody in the world that wouldn't change places with the Americans. The economy is phenomenally large, the entrepreneurial class is very alive and very well, the universities, despite budget problems, still turn out something like 90 percent of the refereed academic and technical articles in the world. There's a lot on everybody's agenda.
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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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I want the public as well as libraries and schools to enjoy unlimited access to public-domain books. This means no charges for these kind of texts themselves.
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Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at.
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It's relatively simple. If we're not getting more, better, faster than they are getting more, better, faster, then we're getting less, no better or more worse.
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Inspiring visions rarely (I'm tempted to say never) include numbers.
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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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