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You can't think your way out of a box you've got to act.

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Tom Peters
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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Business, life itself, is damned hard work if you wanna be good at it. Actually, that's precisely wrong. Business ceases to be work when you're chasing a dream that has engorged you. (Work should be more fun than fun - Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn't there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.
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MP3 players and flash memory devices are good for data storage and playback of music and digital talking books, but they offer little or nothing in the way of visual presentation of information and communication.
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Inspiring visions rarely (I'm tempted to say never) include numbers.
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With most competitors moving ever faster, the race will go to those who listen (and respond) most intently.
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Forget all the conventional 'rules' but one. There is one golden rule: Stick to topics you deeply care about and don't keep your passion buttoned inside your vest. An audience's biggest turn-on is the speaker's obvious enthusiasm. If you are lukewarm about the issue, forget it!
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Screw-ups are the mark of excellence.
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Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.
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There's nobody in the world that wouldn't change places with the Americans. The economy is phenomenally large, the entrepreneurial class is very alive and very well, the universities, despite budget problems, still turn out something like 90 percent of the refereed academic and technical articles in the world. There's a lot on everybody's agenda.
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Leaders do stuff that matters.
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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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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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Now that gigabytes of accessible, malleable information can be carried in one's pocket, we probably will start to see some widespread shifts and trends in how and where people interact with digital documents.
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You have to stand out if you want to move up.
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I am confident that for the foreseeable future (barring some catastrophic event affecting economic, energy, electrical, and communications systems), many subpopulations that use information intensively (e.g., students, academics, library patrons, white collar workers) will be using some sort of portal information appliance.
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Because nearly all digital libraries are tied to bricks-and-mortar institutions, the funding base tends to be quite localized.
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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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Have you thanked a front-line employee for carrying around a great attitude ... today?
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The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
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And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you're consistent, you're vulnerable to attack. Yes, it's a paradox. Now deal with it!
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I am my clients. I am defined by who I do business with.
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