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Tom Peters
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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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There's nobody in the world that wouldn't change places with the Americans. The economy is phenomenally large, the entrepreneurial class is very alive and very well, the universities, despite budget problems, still turn out something like 90 percent of the refereed academic and technical articles in the world. There's a lot on everybody's agenda.
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Hire disrespectful people.
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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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Had Twitter been invented earlier, my books would have been shorter.
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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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Leaders' careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.
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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 unthinkable is thinkable. No: likely.
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The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we' they think 'team'.
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What gets measured gets done.
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Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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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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Make an extensive table of project 'deliverables'. Label one column 'as requested'. Create another column labeled 'could be'. Make each 'could be' wild and woolly!
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But there's no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.
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As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca.
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Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
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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.
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