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They say plan it. I say do it.

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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
Businessperson
Economist
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Baltimore
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I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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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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Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.
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He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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Inspiring visions rarely (I'm tempted to say never) include numbers.
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If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.
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The common wisdom is that ... managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
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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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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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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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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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The unthinkable is thinkable. No: likely.
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You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.
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I am confident that for the foreseeable future (barring some catastrophic event affecting economic, energy, electrical, and communications systems), many subpopulations that use information intensively (e.g., students, academics, library patrons, white collar workers) will be using some sort of portal information appliance.
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Only pissed-off people change the world.
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