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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: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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Lavish credit on anyone and everyone who helped you the least bit.
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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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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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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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Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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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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He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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Are you placing enough interesting, freakish, long shot, weirdo bets?
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A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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We are all Michaelangelos.
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Steve Jobs is perhaps the most competitive human being I have ever met in my life, and yet I would argue one of the most artistic human beings I have ever met in my life. You can trash the movies all you want, but they do have an artistic component. And yet brutal competition knows no peers when it comes to Hollywood.
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Don't settle for less than is possible.
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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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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 difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
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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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The selfish leader will attempt to lead others for their own gain and for the detriment of others.
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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.
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