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Progress is mostly the product of rogues.

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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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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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The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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The 'value added' for most any company, tiny or enormous, comes from the Quality of Experience provided.
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My half-baked reading of history is that we continue to go through these waves of entrepreneurial explosion followed by merger mania and consolidation. Out of that come big sluggish companies that eventually collapse under the weight of what they've created, and are killed off by the next wave of entrepreneurs.
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