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Tom Peters

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
With most competitors moving ever faster, the race will go to those who listen (and respond) most intently.
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Faster Moving Race
For me, reading is reading.
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Good Knowledge Learn Read Reading
Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she’d added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community.
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Business Person Real School Second
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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Believe Friends Ideas
Even a poor, out-of-datecollection reflects in its own way the values of the people who created it and the community it serves.
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Community People Way
Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.
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Able Mastery Remorse Sweat
You can’t live life without an eraser.
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Eraser Happen Life Live
Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
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High Levels Past Standards
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
We’re going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business – the attribute that is highest in demand and shortest in supply.
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Demand Elements Important
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
Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Misreading Odds Persistent
Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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Age Library Resources
How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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Achieve Excellence Stuff
I find digital content much easier and more rewarding to interact with on screen than printed on paper.
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Digital Easier Paper

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