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For me, reading is reading.

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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
Businessperson
Economist
Writer
Baltimore
Maryland
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When it comes to e-book playback devices and software, I have always thought that the emphasis on ergonomic concerns as a tipping point for the end-user population was misplaced.
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Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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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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Books were rare,expensive, time-consuming to create and copy, and difficult to transport. That is why collections ofprint-based books developed around centers of religious belief, learning, and wealth. It was cheaper andeasier for people to come to the collection than for the collection, or parts of the collection, to go to thepeople.
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Hire for attitude. Train for skill... More
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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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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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The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.
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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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Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.
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You can't think your way out of a box you've got to act.
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There are few things that will take you further in life, than your ability to make a good presentation.
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A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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We're going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business - the attribute that is highest in demand and shortest in supply.
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Only pissed-off people change the world.
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I found myself declaiming, full flower, for an hour on the utmost importance and urgency of Blogging, telling him in no uncertain terms that, especially in a high-end niche business, Blogging is the premier way to have intimate conversations with his Clients. Funny thing, I believe it!
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If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?
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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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