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.
TOM PETERSWhat is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?
More Tom Peters Quotes
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Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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Hire attitude train skills.
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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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Now that I have adopted into my own daily life a device that makes music and spoken-word files easy to access from anywhere, I have tempered my skepticism.
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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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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it’s not fun, you’re wasting your life.
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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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Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation – and about fundamental relations with one’s fellows.
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He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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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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Those who succeed always reach far beyond formal deputation, take initiatives, and take the heat when things go awry. That’s true in the military in times of war, true for 200 person manufacturing firms, and true at giant automakers or software companies.
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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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The good news – and it is largely good news – is that everyone has a chance to stand out. Everyone has a chance to learn, improve, and build up their skills. Everyone has a chance to be a brand worthy of remark
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