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Tom Peters
Age: 81
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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I don't know what it means to manage the human imagination, but I do know that imagination is the main source of value in the new economy. And I know we'd better figure out the answer to my question-quick.
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The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.
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Winston Churchill said that appetite was the most important thing about education. Leadership guru Warren Bennis says he wants to be remembered as 'curious to the end.' David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity 'about every subject under the sun.'
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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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Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at.
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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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The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.
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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 'value added' for most any company, tiny or enormous, comes from the Quality of Experience provided.
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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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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 believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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If you're a leader, your whole reason for living is to help human beings develop - to really develop people and make work a place that's energetic and exciting and a growth opportunity, whether you're running a Housekeeping Department or Google. I mean, this is not rocket science.
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One size NEVER fits all. One size fits one. Period
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The trouble with much of the advice business gets today about the need to be more vigorously creative is that its advocates often fail to distinguish between creativity and innovation. Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things... The shortage is of innovators.
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