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I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.

Tom Peters

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
Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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Information Portability Should
Like it or not – and often we don’t – power is a pervasive phenomenon. From midnight decisions in the Oval Office that risk the lives of young Americans to quarrels over the kitchen table, power is part of every human equation.
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Business Country Numbers Power Risk
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
Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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Accepting Change
…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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Attitide Attitude Matter
The company’s most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand – innovation from everyone.
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Demand Innovation Tasks
Your calendar never lies. All we have is our time. The way we spend our time is our priorities, is our strategy. Your calendar knows what you really care about. Do you?
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Calendar Care Lying Priorities
Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
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Entrepreneur Memories Views
The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.
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Deviltry Mad Passion Race
Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
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High Levels Past Standards
We’re going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business – the attribute that is highest in demand and shortest in supply.
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Demand Elements Important
Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it…only business people think it isn’t necessary to train.
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People Teamwork Thinking
I’m fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies – in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.
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Business Country Growth Real
Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Products Progress Rogues
One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.
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Human Lovely Pay Tribute

I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.

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I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.

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