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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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But there's no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.
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If timing ain't everything, it's damn close
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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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If the other guy is getting better, then you'd better be getting better faster than the other guy is getting better... or you're getting worse.
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A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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In the great city of San Francisco, where I used to live, at 2 in the morning every other Victorian house has somebody who is writing the great American novel. And the city is not loaded with James Joyces or Virginia Woolfs. But entrepreneurship is about distorted views of reality.
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Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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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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Every collection reflects the ideas andvalues and interests of the individual or group who developed the collection.
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An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones, and live with paradox will be the effective leader's premier trait.
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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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You can't think your way out of a box you've got to act.
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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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Lavish credit on anyone and everyone who helped you the least bit.
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Business, life itself, is damned hard work if you wanna be good at it. Actually, that's precisely wrong. Business ceases to be work when you're chasing a dream that has engorged you. (Work should be more fun than fun - Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn't there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.
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If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?
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Are you placing enough interesting, freakish, long shot, weirdo bets?
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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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The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
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