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The worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.

Tom Peters

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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Change Learning Past
David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity ‘about every subject under the sun.’
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Copywriters Curiosity Subject Sun
Garbage! Intuition is the new physics. It’s an Einsteinian, seven-sense, practical way to make tough decisions. Bottom line, circa 2001 to 2010: The crazier the times are, the more important it is for leaders to develop and to trust their intuition.
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Decision Important Intuition More Practical Tough
Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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Accepting Change
Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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Entrepreneur Excellence Lasts
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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Book Digital Hard People Print
Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does.
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Challenges People Reading
I’m fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies – in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.
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Business Country Growth Real
I think economics is about passion. Economic progress, whether it is a two-person coffee shop or whether it is Netscape, is about people with brave ideas. Because it is brave to mortgage the house, when you’ve got two kids, to start a coffee shop.
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Coffee Kids Passion
Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind – and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off, connections made, insights triggered
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Connections Littles Mind
A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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Free Library Lunch Rare
All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
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Facts Life Reinvented White
Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere
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Everyone Everywhere Ideas Listen
Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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Entrepreneur Leader Organization
If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven’t figured it out yet.
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Knowledge Learning Off Pissed
Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation – and about fundamental relations with one’s fellows.
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Fundamentals Leadership Motivation

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