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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?
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Anybody who is an entrepreneur is a person who essentially has impaired judgment. The odds of success are zilch. This valley is loaded to the gills with a whole lot of totally insane people who honest to God believe that they can be the next Bill Gates or the next Scott McNealy. And that is genuinely stupid.
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Only pissed-off people change the world.
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Screw-ups are the mark of excellence.
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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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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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A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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Who comes first? Don't be silly, says King Hal it's employees. That is - and this dear Watson, is elementary - if you genuinely want to put customers first, you must put employees more first.
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The principal reason, invariably, most successful giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact, the worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday's turf.
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As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.
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Leaders' careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.
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An era similar to the one in which the black rotary phone dominated its product category may not recur anytime soon.
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Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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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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Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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MP3 players and flash memory devices are good for data storage and playback of music and digital talking books, but they offer little or nothing in the way of visual presentation of information and communication.
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Stellar teams are invariably made up of quirky individuals who typically rub each other raw, but they figure out - with the spiritual help of a gifted leader - how to be their peculiar selves and how to win championships as a team...at the same time.
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Your calendar never lies. All we have is our time. The way we spend our time is our priorities, is our strategy. Your calendar knows what you really care about. Do you?
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Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
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