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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
Reading

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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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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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The unthinkable is thinkable. No: likely.
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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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Who, precisely, are your Dreamers? Are their Dreams in Technicolor? Do you allow their most Outrageous Dreams to be seen in public?
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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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You have to stand out if you want to move up.
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The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.
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The delivery and presentation media are important, and each format has its advantages and disadvantages, but ultimately I just want to read what I want to read, when and where I want.
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Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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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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There are few things that will take you further in life, than your ability to make a good presentation.
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The 'value added' for most any company, tiny or enormous, comes from the Quality of Experience provided.
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Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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OPPORTUNITY is not knocking. It is pounding on your door.
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You can't think your way out of a box you've got to act.
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The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we' they think 'team'.
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If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.
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Send 10-TEN!!-people flowers. Today. As Thank yous for good things small-or even large-done in the last two weeks.
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Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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