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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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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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People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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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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Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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Are you placing enough interesting, freakish, long shot, weirdo bets?
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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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Don't let the vision be shot through with holes, but be damn sure some of your best and brightest are shooting at it -- with bazookas as well as sniper's rifles.
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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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OPPORTUNITY is not knocking. It is pounding on your door.
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Steve Jobs is perhaps the most competitive human being I have ever met in my life, and yet I would argue one of the most artistic human beings I have ever met in my life. You can trash the movies all you want, but they do have an artistic component. And yet brutal competition knows no peers when it comes to Hollywood.
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The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.
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When you choose a managerial path, you are choosing to devote your life to people. Period.
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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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One potential long-term problem with many current digital libraries is that they grew out of and aresupported by bricks-and-mortar libraries. Although there is nothing inherently wrong with that arrangement, inreality it creates a potentially dangerous situation that I call the other digital divide.
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I'm fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies - in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.
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A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good - similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.
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For me, reading is reading.
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Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.
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Inspiring visions rarely (I'm tempted to say never) include numbers.
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