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If timing ain't everything, it's damn close
Tom Peters
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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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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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Creating in all employees the awareness that their best efforts are essential and that they will share in the rewards of the company's success.
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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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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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Business, life itself, is damned hard work if you wanna be good at it. Actually, that's precisely wrong. Business ceases to be work when you're chasing a dream that has engorged you. (Work should be more fun than fun - Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn't there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.
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I think it's wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
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If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.
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I am my clients. I am defined by who I do business with.
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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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Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
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Every collection reflects the ideas andvalues and interests of the individual or group who developed the collection.
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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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You have to stand out if you want to move up.
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To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.
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Even a poor, out-of-datecollection reflects in its own way the values of the people who created it and the community it serves.
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I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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Perception is all there is. If the customer think he's right, he's right.
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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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Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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The world has not just turned upside down. It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.
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