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You can't live life without an eraser.
Tom Peters
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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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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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Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.
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He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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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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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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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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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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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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Books were rare,expensive, time-consuming to create and copy, and difficult to transport. That is why collections ofprint-based books developed around centers of religious belief, learning, and wealth. It was cheaper andeasier for people to come to the collection than for the collection, or parts of the collection, to go to thepeople.
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OLD: Be No.1 or No.2 in Your Market. NEW: Find a Niche, Create Something New.
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An era similar to the one in which the black rotary phone dominated its product category may not recur anytime soon.
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Perception is all there is. If the customer think he's right, he's right.
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If silly things were not done, intelligent things would never happen.
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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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