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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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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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When you choose a managerial path, you are choosing to devote your life to people. Period.
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Inspiring visions rarely (I'm tempted to say never) include numbers.
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I'm about as far from being a flag-waver - you won't find any American flag pins in my drawer - as someone can be.
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There's nobody in the world that wouldn't change places with the Americans. The economy is phenomenally large, the entrepreneurial class is very alive and very well, the universities, despite budget problems, still turn out something like 90 percent of the refereed academic and technical articles in the world. There's a lot on everybody's agenda.
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If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.
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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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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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Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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Digital ink technology holds substantial promise in terms of legibility, portability, and power consumption, but I am less confident about the communication aspect.
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Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through the 17-hour days (month after month) and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the start-up process.
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I don't want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as 'pops' giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.
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Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.
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If silly things were not done, intelligent things would never happen.
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We're going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business - the attribute that is highest in demand and shortest in supply.
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