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Leaders do stuff that matters.

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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.
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All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
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In the great city of San Francisco, where I used to live, at 2 in the morning every other Victorian house has somebody who is writing the great American novel. And the city is not loaded with James Joyces or Virginia Woolfs. But entrepreneurship is about distorted views of reality.
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Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you're consistent, you're vulnerable to attack. Yes, it's a paradox. Now deal with it!
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I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.
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Good managers have a bias for action.
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Collections of books and other documents, either printed or electronic, are a form of congregation.
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Hire for attitude. Train for skill... More
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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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Every collection reflects the ideas andvalues and interests of the individual or group who developed the collection.
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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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When you choose a managerial path, you are choosing to devote your life to people. Period.
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OPPORTUNITY is not knocking. It is pounding on your door.
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To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.
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There are few things that will take you further in life, than your ability to make a good presentation.
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Are you placing enough interesting, freakish, long shot, weirdo bets?
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Business, life itself, is damned hard work if you wanna be good at it. Actually, that's precisely wrong. Business ceases to be work when you're chasing a dream that has engorged you. (Work should be more fun than fun - Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn't there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.
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I want the public as well as libraries and schools to enjoy unlimited access to public-domain books. This means no charges for these kind of texts themselves.
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Even a poor, out-of-datecollection reflects in its own way the values of the people who created it and the community it serves.
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