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Don't settle for less than is possible.

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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
Businessperson
Economist
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Baltimore
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All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
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The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we' they think 'team'.
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Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through the 17-hour days (month after month) and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the start-up process.
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I don't want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as 'pops' giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.
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A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good - similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.
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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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Now it is much faster and cheaper to bring thedocument to the user, rather than ask the user to come to the document or collection.
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OPPORTUNITY is not knocking. It is pounding on your door.
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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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We are all Michaelangelos.
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If timing ain't everything, it's damn close
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The world has not just turned upside down. It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.
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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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Hire disrespectful people.
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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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As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca.
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The trouble with much of the advice business gets today about the need to be more vigorously creative is that its advocates often fail to distinguish between creativity and innovation. Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things... The shortage is of innovators.
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I think it's wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
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Winston Churchill said that appetite was the most important thing about education. Leadership guru Warren Bennis says he wants to be remembered as 'curious to the end.' David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity 'about every subject under the sun.'
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