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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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Baltimore
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The principal reason, invariably, most successful giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact, the worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday's turf.
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Now it is much faster and cheaper to bring thedocument to the user, rather than ask the user to come to the document or collection.
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Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how open you are, you'll end up surrounded by yes people. It's hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.
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If the other guy is getting better, then you'd better be getting better faster than the other guy is getting better... or you're getting worse.
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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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When it comes to e-book playback devices and software, I have always thought that the emphasis on ergonomic concerns as a tipping point for the end-user population was misplaced.
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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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I want the public as well as libraries and schools to enjoy unlimited access to public-domain books. This means no charges for these kind of texts themselves.
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The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.
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You can't live life without an eraser.
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Don't let the vision be shot through with holes, but be damn sure some of your best and brightest are shooting at it -- with bazookas as well as sniper's rifles.
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