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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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If, as I anticipate, a wide array of personal, portable information/communication devices becomes increasingly important and widespread for information-intensive users, it will be a major challenge for libraries to adapt their content and services to such a diverse technological environment.
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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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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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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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Inspiring visions rarely (I'm tempted to say never) include numbers.
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If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?
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Don't settle for less than is possible.
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To grasp organizational life as it is, read novels (!) .... It is my fervent belief that we will never design rational processes that overcome such irregularities-don't bother telling that to a consultant. Hence, we should embrace the real, nonrational, nonlinear world with vigor and glee-and develop enterprise and career strategies accordingl
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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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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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Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.
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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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Even a poor, out-of-datecollection reflects in its own way the values of the people who created it and the community it serves.
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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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Make an extensive table of project 'deliverables'. Label one column 'as requested'. Create another column labeled 'could be'. Make each 'could be' wild and woolly!
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They say plan it. I say do it.
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I find digital content much easier and more rewarding to interact with on screen than printed on paper.
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Hire for attitude. Train for skill... More
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Winston Churchill said that appetite was the most important thing about education. Leadership guru Warren Bennis says he wants to be remembered as 'curious to the end.' David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity 'about every subject under the sun.'
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What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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