The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.
TOM PETERSKnowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.
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Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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The populations of most cities around the world continue to grow. The reasonspeople congregate in cities are various and complex, and the dawn of the digital age has not put much of adamper on the human urge to congregate.
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Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated…they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.
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TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how “open” you are, you’ll end up surrounded by “yes people.” It’s hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.
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It may be primarily property taxes in the case of a public library, or state taxes and tuition in the case of an academic library at a public university, but the funding sources of most libraries continue to have a strong geographic component.
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The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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Business is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
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Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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The widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs.
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A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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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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Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).
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