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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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Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through the 17-hour days (month after month) and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the start-up process.
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As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.
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It doesn't matter what product or service you're offering there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.
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Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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The delivery and presentation media are important, and each format has its advantages and disadvantages, but ultimately I just want to read what I want to read, when and where I want.
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Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.
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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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Lavish credit on anyone and everyone who helped you the least bit.
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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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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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The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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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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Every collection reflects the ideas andvalues and interests of the individual or group who developed the collection.
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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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Ready, fire, aim. Do it! Make it happen! Action counts. No one ever sat their way to success.
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Only pissed-off people change the world.
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OPPORTUNITY is not knocking. It is pounding on your door.
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