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Have you thanked a front-line employee for carrying around a great attitude ... today?
Tom Peters
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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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In the great city of San Francisco, where I used to live, at 2 in the morning every other Victorian house has somebody who is writing the great American novel. And the city is not loaded with James Joyces or Virginia Woolfs. But entrepreneurship is about distorted views of reality.
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Your calendar never lies. All we have is our time. The way we spend our time is our priorities, is our strategy. Your calendar knows what you really care about. Do you?
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Hire disrespectful people.
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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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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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As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.
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The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.
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They say plan it. I say do it.
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Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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I think economics is about passion. Economic progress, whether it is a two-person coffee shop or whether it is Netscape, is about people with brave ideas. Because it is brave to mortgage the house, when you've got two kids, to start a coffee shop.
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My half-baked reading of history is that we continue to go through these waves of entrepreneurial explosion followed by merger mania and consolidation. Out of that come big sluggish companies that eventually collapse under the weight of what they've created, and are killed off by the next wave of entrepreneurs.
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Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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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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The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
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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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The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.
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The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.
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Leaders do stuff that matters.
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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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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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