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.
TOM PETERSI find digital content much easier and more rewarding to interact with on screen than printed on paper.
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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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I don’t want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as ‘pops’ giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.
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Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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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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To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.
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Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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The widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs.
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Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one’s corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.
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If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.
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Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.
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You are your projects!
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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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Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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