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Tom Peters

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
Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Excellence Minutes Next
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
Bold botches are to be cherished.
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Botches Cherished Country People
Hire disrespectful people.
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Disrespectful People Work
Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere
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Everyone Everywhere Ideas Listen
To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.
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Change Demand Past
We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.
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Doors Havoc Innovation
Sorry, but those are two of the most profoundly upsetting questions anyone can ask – upsetting because the answer should be obvious: Do what turns you on, not what the statistics say is best.
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Answer Anyone Profoundly Sorry Statics Upsetting
He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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Prototype Reign Work
The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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Easy Fire Wisdom Yourself
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
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
Business is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
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Ideas Passion People
Hire attitude train skills.
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Attitude Skills Train
Smile if it kills you. The physiology of smiling diffuses a lot of anger and angst. It makes your body and soul feel better.
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Better Body Feel Soul

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