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Tom Peters

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
What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?
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Next Strategy Volunteer
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
Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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Integrity Littles May
The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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Easy Fire Wisdom Yourself
It may be primarily property taxes in the case of a public library, or state taxes and tuition in the case of an academic library at a public university, but the funding sources of most libraries continue to have a strong geographic component.
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Academic Library Strong Tuition
If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.
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Consider Deligated Jobs Leader
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
A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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Free Library Lunch Rare
The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.
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Customers Ideas Intimately
Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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Business Innovation Innovative
Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Educational Inspirational Success
Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).
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Book Growth Thinking
Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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Business Mistake Training
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
People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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Digital Library People

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