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Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it...only business people think it isn't necessary to train.
Tom Peters
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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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