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Tom Peters
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
Businessperson
Economist
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Baltimore
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A while back, I came across a line attributed to IBM founder Thomas Watson. If you want to achieve excellence, he said, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
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I'm about as far from being a flag-waver - you won't find any American flag pins in my drawer - as someone can be.
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Are you placing enough interesting, freakish, long shot, weirdo bets?
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Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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Obviously, despite hard work and heroic efforts, many dreams don't come true. But if we don't dare to dream and then throw muscle, heart, and soul into making the dream come true, then WoW Projects-and all of the emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and financial riches that they bring will surely NOT be our lot in life!
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Because nearly all digital libraries are tied to bricks-and-mortar institutions, the funding base tends to be quite localized.
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The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.
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I find digital content much easier and more rewarding to interact with on screen than printed on paper.
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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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Transforming leadership, [is defined as] leadership that builds on man's need for meaning, leadership that creates institutional purpose ... he is the value-shaper, the exemplar, the maker of meanings ... he is the true artist, the true pathfinder.
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Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation - and about fundamental relations with one's fellows.
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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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Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain't in the mean, the mode or the median - it's in the differences that occur throughout a population.
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Screw-ups are the mark of excellence.
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I'm fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies - in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.
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I don't want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as 'pops' giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.
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A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.
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He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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