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Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated…they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.

Tom Peters

A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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Free Library Lunch Rare
We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.
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Doors Havoc Innovation
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
The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to ‘tidy up’ the mess, as opposed to understanding it’s a ‘day one’ issue and part of everything.
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Design Issues Mistakes Something Understanding
If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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Inspirational Opportunity Success
The common wisdom is that … managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
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Common Motivation People
The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.
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Deviltry Mad Passion Race
The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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Easy Fire Wisdom Yourself
Oh Lord, there it is again. The question;” What kind of business should I start?” Incidentially, it has a twin that also sets me off: “What should I specialize in during the second year of my MBA studies?”
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Business Incidentally Sorry Specialization Years
Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).
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Book Growth Thinking
For me, reading is reading.
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Good Knowledge Learn Read Reading
I don’t want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as ‘pops’ giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.
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Giving Thinking Understand Years
I think it’s wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
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Needs Thinking World
The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we’re going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
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Believe Secret Statistically World
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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Differences Educational Ideas Mean Occur
Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
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Cutting Mean Motivational Ventures

Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated…they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.

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