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I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.

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Tom Peters
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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Economist
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Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Don't settle for less than is possible.
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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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Champions are pioneers, and pioneers get shot at. The companies that get the most from champions, therefore, are those that have rich support network so their pioneers will flourish. This point is so important it's hard to overstress. No support systems, no champions. No champions, no innovations.
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Power lies in the details, and the tenacious pursuit of such hidden levers can pay off enormously. While you don't want to get a reputation as a prissy worrywart, worrying about the details in private is important. You may think you are the world's greatest speaker, but if the auditorium's sound system is singing static - well, forget it.
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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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One size NEVER fits all. One size fits one. Period
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Send 10-TEN!!-people flowers. Today. As Thank yous for good things small-or even large-done in the last two weeks.
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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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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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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade.
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What gets measured gets done.
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Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.
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The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
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