Hire disrespectful people.
TOM PETERSGandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an incredible degree-their “personal style” was their “brand.” (“It” starts with personal style of the tip-top leadership team.
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What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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For me, reading is reading.
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A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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Business is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
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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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Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
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Gandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an incredible degree-their “personal style” was their “brand.” (“It” starts with personal style of the tip-top leadership team.
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How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.
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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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Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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