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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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Ready, fire, aim. Do it! Make it happen! Action counts. No one ever sat their way to success.
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One size NEVER fits all. One size fits one. Period
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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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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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The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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Every collection reflects the ideas andvalues and interests of the individual or group who developed the collection.
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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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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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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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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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If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.
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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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An era similar to the one in which the black rotary phone dominated its product category may not recur anytime soon.
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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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If you're a leader, your whole reason for living is to help human beings develop - to really develop people and make work a place that's energetic and exciting and a growth opportunity, whether you're running a Housekeeping Department or Google. I mean, this is not rocket science.
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...high end does not necessarily equal high price. It's a matter of attitude.
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A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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