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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
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Economist
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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 trouble with much of the advice business gets today about the need to be more vigorously creative is that its advocates often fail to distinguish between creativity and innovation. Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things... The shortage is of innovators.
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...high end does not necessarily equal high price. It's a matter of attitude.
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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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Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation - and about fundamental relations with one's fellows.
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Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Your calendar never lies. All we have is our time. The way we spend our time is our priorities, is our strategy. Your calendar knows what you really care about. Do you?
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Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at.
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A little (or more) boat burning would do many enterprises a world of good.
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What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?
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Formula for success: Underpromise and overachieve.
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If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.
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Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.
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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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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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Screw-ups are the mark of excellence.
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As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.
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I found myself declaiming, full flower, for an hour on the utmost importance and urgency of Blogging, telling him in no uncertain terms that, especially in a high-end niche business, Blogging is the premier way to have intimate conversations with his Clients. Funny thing, I believe it!
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