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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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We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.
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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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The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.
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I'm fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies - in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.
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A while back, I came across a line attributed to IBM founder Thomas Watson. If you want to achieve excellence, he said, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
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Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.
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