Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
TOM PETERSForget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one’s corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.
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Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good – similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.
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If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism – the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.
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Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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For me, reading is reading.
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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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Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
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The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain’t in the mean, the mode or the median – it’s in the differences that occur throughout a population.
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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
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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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You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
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…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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