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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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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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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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Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Hire attitude train skills.
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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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Screw-ups are the mark of excellence.
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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?
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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 delivery and presentation media are important, and each format has its advantages and disadvantages, but ultimately I just want to read what I want to read, when and where I want.
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Digital content and electronic networks have changed the basic environmental conditionsin which documents are created, distributed, and used.
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A little (or more) boat burning would do many enterprises a world of good.
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OPPORTUNITY is not knocking. It is pounding on your door.
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The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
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Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it...only business people think it isn't necessary to train.
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Have you thanked a front-line employee for carrying around a great attitude ... today?
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Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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Change is not so much about being the first one to embrace a new idea, but being the first to forget an old one
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In today's economy there are no experts, no 'best and brightest' with all the answers. It's up to each one of us. The only way to screw up is to not try anything.
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