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Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.

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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
Businessperson
Economist
Writer
Baltimore
Maryland
Portability
Underestimated
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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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Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does. Having tried this for several months, however, I can report from the trenches that, for me, immersive listening is as intellectually challenging, stimulating, and rewarding as immersive reading.
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Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
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I don't want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as 'pops' giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.
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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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The common wisdom is that ... managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
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Because nearly all digital libraries are tied to bricks-and-mortar institutions, the funding base tends to be quite localized.
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Only pissed-off people change the world.
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People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade.
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Lavish credit on anyone and everyone who helped you the least bit.
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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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If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I've gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time.
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It doesn't matter what product or service you're offering there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.
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Had Twitter been invented earlier, my books would have been shorter.
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Creating in all employees the awareness that their best efforts are essential and that they will share in the rewards of the company's success.
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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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I'm about as far from being a flag-waver - you won't find any American flag pins in my drawer - as someone can be.
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The selfish leader will attempt to lead others for their own gain and for the detriment of others.
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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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