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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
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Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
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We're going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business - the attribute that is highest in demand and shortest in supply.
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Anybody who is an entrepreneur is a person who essentially has impaired judgment. The odds of success are zilch. This valley is loaded to the gills with a whole lot of totally insane people who honest to God believe that they can be the next Bill Gates or the next Scott McNealy. And that is genuinely stupid.
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Leaders' careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.
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In today's economy there are no experts, no 'best and brightest' with all the answers. It's up to each one of us. The only way to screw up is to not try anything.
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Formula for success: Underpromise and overachieve.
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Have you thanked a front-line employee for carrying around a great attitude ... today?
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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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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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Leaders do stuff that matters.
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Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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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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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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