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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
Businessperson
Economist
Writer
Baltimore
Maryland
Measurement
Measured
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Think about the market, think about the design, and think about who is going to design for that market. Hit the mark.
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Send 10-TEN!!-people flowers. Today. As Thank yous for good things small-or even large-done in the last two weeks.
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Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.
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The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
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In the great city of San Francisco, where I used to live, at 2 in the morning every other Victorian house has somebody who is writing the great American novel. And the city is not loaded with James Joyces or Virginia Woolfs. But entrepreneurship is about distorted views of reality.
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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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Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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It's relatively simple. If we're not getting more, better, faster than they are getting more, better, faster, then we're getting less, no better or more worse.
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South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
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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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The company's most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand - innovation from everyone.
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A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good - similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.
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The common wisdom is that ... managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
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To grasp organizational life as it is, read novels (!) .... It is my fervent belief that we will never design rational processes that overcome such irregularities-don't bother telling that to a consultant. Hence, we should embrace the real, nonrational, nonlinear world with vigor and glee-and develop enterprise and career strategies accordingl
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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 would not be surprised to see interesting new forms of expression and literary genres develop as the e-book movement matures.
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Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.
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Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade.
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You have to stand out if you want to move up.
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The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.
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