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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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A while back, I came across a line attributed to IBM founder Thomas Watson. If you want to achieve excellence, he said, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
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Forget all the conventional 'rules' but one. There is one golden rule: Stick to topics you deeply care about and don't keep your passion buttoned inside your vest. An audience's biggest turn-on is the speaker's obvious enthusiasm. If you are lukewarm about the issue, forget it!
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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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Companies have got to learn to eat change for breakfast.
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Think about the market, think about the design, and think about who is going to design for that market. Hit the mark.
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Leaders do stuff that matters.
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It's relatively simple. If we're not getting more, better, faster than they are getting more, better, faster, then we're getting less, no better or more worse.
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Good managers have a bias for action.
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A little (or more) boat burning would do many enterprises a world of good.
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Dot the i's, cross the t's, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil is in the details.
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Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
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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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All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
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What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at.
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Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.
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The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.
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Screw-ups are the mark of excellence.
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Now that gigabytes of accessible, malleable information can be carried in one's pocket, we probably will start to see some widespread shifts and trends in how and where people interact with digital documents.
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