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

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Tom Peters
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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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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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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To sell is above all to master the art and science of listening.
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The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven't figured it out yet.
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It's relatively simple. If we're not getting more, better, faster than they are getting more, better, faster, then we're getting less, no better or more worse.
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OPPORTUNITY is not knocking. It is pounding on your door.
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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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