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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
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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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Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one's corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.
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It's relatively simple. If we're not getting more, better, faster than they are getting more, better, faster, then we're getting less, no better or more worse.
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Now that gigabytes of accessible, malleable information can be carried in one's pocket, we probably will start to see some widespread shifts and trends in how and where people interact with digital documents.
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We are all Michaelangelos.
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Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
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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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Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.
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Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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Had Twitter been invented earlier, my books would have been shorter.
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Anybody who is an entrepreneur is a person who essentially has impaired judgment. The odds of success are zilch. This valley is loaded to the gills with a whole lot of totally insane people who honest to God believe that they can be the next Bill Gates or the next Scott McNealy. And that is genuinely stupid.
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Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.
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If silly things were not done, intelligent things would never happen.
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The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.
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With most competitors moving ever faster, the race will go to those who listen (and respond) most intently.
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Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.
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Change is not so much about being the first one to embrace a new idea, but being the first to forget an old one
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Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain't in the mean, the mode or the median - it's in the differences that occur throughout a population.
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Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are imperatives.
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I would not be surprised to see interesting new forms of expression and literary genres develop as the e-book movement matures.
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