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Tom Peters

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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Builds Chance Everyone News Skills
TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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Decades Issues Technology
Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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Essentials Knowing Loss
The common wisdom is that … managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
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Common Motivation People
If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!
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Better Business Love Passion Period
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
Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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Change Learning Past
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
A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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Free Library Lunch Rare
The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we’re going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
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Believe Secret Statistically World
The principal reason, invariably, most “successful” giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact,
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Anything Change Fact Successful Worse Yesterday
How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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Achieve Excellence Stuff
The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to ‘tidy up’ the mess, as opposed to understanding it’s a ‘day one’ issue and part of everything.
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Design Issues Mistakes Something Understanding
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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Positive Productive Work Simple
What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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Decide Important Probably
Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Misreading Odds Persistent

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