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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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Digital ink technology holds substantial promise in terms of legibility, portability, and power consumption, but I am less confident about the communication aspect.
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Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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...high end does not necessarily equal high price. It's a matter of attitude.
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What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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We are all Michaelangelos.
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To sell is above all to master the art and science of listening.
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If silly things were not done, intelligent things would never happen.
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The populations of most cities around the world continue to grow. The reasonspeople congregate in cities are various and complex, and the dawn of the digital age has not put much of adamper on the human urge to congregate.
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Don't let the vision be shot through with holes, but be damn sure some of your best and brightest are shooting at it -- with bazookas as well as sniper's rifles.
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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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Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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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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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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Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one's corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.
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The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
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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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My half-baked reading of history is that we continue to go through these waves of entrepreneurial explosion followed by merger mania and consolidation. Out of that come big sluggish companies that eventually collapse under the weight of what they've created, and are killed off by the next wave of entrepreneurs.
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Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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