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Tom Peters
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca.
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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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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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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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Ready, fire, aim. Do it! Make it happen! Action counts. No one ever sat their way to success.
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Remember: You are the only human being in the world who can help this particular customer at this particular moment in time.
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To sell is above all to master the art and science of listening.
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Good managers have a bias for action.
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With most competitors moving ever faster, the race will go to those who listen (and respond) most intently.
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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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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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A little (or more) boat burning would do many enterprises a world of good.
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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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OPPORTUNITY is not knocking. It is pounding on your door.
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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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The winners stun us not by their cleverness, but by the fact that every tiny aspect of the business is just a touch better than the norm.
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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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South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
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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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It's this simple: You are a brand. You are in charge of your brand. There is no single path to success. And there is no one right way to create the brand called You. Except this: Start today. Or else.
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