Don't stand still!

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I don't want to appear as if I have suddenly developed a crush on Facebook, but this advice to anyone running a company (or possibly just anyone in business) just resonates so clearly. It's just too easy to roll out stuff that works!

Zuckerberg said of the self-made billionaire: "Peter was the person who told me this really pithy quote: 'In a world that's changing so quickly, the biggest risk you can take is not taking any risk.' I really think that that's true."

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