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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
Writer
Baltimore
Maryland
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Obviously, despite hard work and heroic efforts, many dreams don't come true. But if we don't dare to dream and then throw muscle, heart, and soul into making the dream come true, then WoW Projects-and all of the emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and financial riches that they bring will surely NOT be our lot in life!
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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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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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Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation - and about fundamental relations with one's fellows.
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Books were rare,expensive, time-consuming to create and copy, and difficult to transport. That is why collections ofprint-based books developed around centers of religious belief, learning, and wealth. It was cheaper andeasier for people to come to the collection than for the collection, or parts of the collection, to go to thepeople.
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Even a poor, out-of-datecollection reflects in its own way the values of the people who created it and the community it serves.
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One potential long-term problem with many current digital libraries is that they grew out of and aresupported by bricks-and-mortar libraries. Although there is nothing inherently wrong with that arrangement, inreality it creates a potentially dangerous situation that I call the other digital divide.
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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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The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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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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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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I would not be surprised to see interesting new forms of expression and literary genres develop as the e-book movement matures.
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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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Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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The unthinkable is thinkable. No: likely.
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The winners stun us not by their cleverness, but by the fact that every tiny aspect of the business is just a touch better than the norm.
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Digital content and electronic networks have changed the basic environmental conditionsin which documents are created, distributed, and used.
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People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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Ready, fire, aim. Do it! Make it happen! Action counts. No one ever sat their way to success.
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Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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