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Screw-ups are the mark of excellence.

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Tom Peters
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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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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When you choose a managerial path, you are choosing to devote your life to people. Period.
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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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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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If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I've gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time.
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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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Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Formula for success: Underpromise and overachieve.
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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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When it comes to e-book playback devices and software, I have always thought that the emphasis on ergonomic concerns as a tipping point for the end-user population was misplaced.
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The company's most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand - innovation from everyone.
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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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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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I am my clients. I am defined by who I do business with.
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Change is not so much about being the first one to embrace a new idea, but being the first to forget an old one
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The delivery and presentation media are important, and each format has its advantages and disadvantages, but ultimately I just want to read what I want to read, when and where I want.
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Had Twitter been invented earlier, my books would have been shorter.
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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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Take someone NEW AND WEIRD to lunch today
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The 'value added' for most any company, tiny or enormous, comes from the Quality of Experience provided.
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