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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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But there's no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.
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Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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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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I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how open you are, you'll end up surrounded by yes people. It's hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.
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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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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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A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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If the other guy is getting better, then you'd better be getting better faster than the other guy is getting better... or you're getting worse.
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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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You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.
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OLD: Be No.1 or No.2 in Your Market. NEW: Find a Niche, Create Something New.
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Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.
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Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade.
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