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You have to stand out if you want to move up.

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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
Businessperson
Economist
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Baltimore
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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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Forget all the conventional 'rules' but one. There is one golden rule: Stick to topics you deeply care about and don't keep your passion buttoned inside your vest. An audience's biggest turn-on is the speaker's obvious enthusiasm. If you are lukewarm about the issue, forget it!
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If silly things were not done, intelligent things would never happen.
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An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones, and live with paradox will be the effective leader's premier trait.
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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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If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?
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Inspiring visions rarely (I'm tempted to say never) include numbers.
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Leaders' careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.
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MP3 players and flash memory devices are good for data storage and playback of music and digital talking books, but they offer little or nothing in the way of visual presentation of information and communication.
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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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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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What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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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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Leaders do stuff that matters.
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If the other guy is getting better, then you'd better be getting better faster than the other guy is getting better... or you're getting worse.
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What gets measured gets done.
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There is no such thing as an insignificant improvement.
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The delivery and presentation media are important, and each format has its advantages and disadvantages, but ultimately I just want to read what I want to read, when and where I want.
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