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Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.

Tom Peters

Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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Age Library Resources
We often hear that the digital age has resulted in a devaluing of time, space, and place. But I wonder if theseclaims are exaggerated.
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Age Digital Space
Dot the i’s, cross the t’s, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil is in the details.
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Devil Entrepreneur Phones
Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services – from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants – are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz.
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Buzz Figure Sneakers Today Transcend
Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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Accepting Change
The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.
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Customers Ideas Intimately
Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation – and about fundamental relations with one’s fellows.
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Fundamentals Leadership Motivation
Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Products Progress Rogues
Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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Learning Matter Teaching
…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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Attitide Attitude Matter
You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.
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Business Dull Lunch
If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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Inspirational Opportunity Success
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
The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.
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Best Economy Home Secret Today
If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.
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Clean Desk Company Nuts Office Policy
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

Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.

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Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.

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