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Tom Peters
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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More quotes by Tom Peters
Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
Tom Peters
All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
Tom Peters
...high end does not necessarily equal high price. It's a matter of attitude.
Tom Peters
The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
Tom Peters
Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
Tom Peters
Have you thanked a front-line employee for carrying around a great attitude ... today?
Tom Peters
The unthinkable is thinkable. No: likely.
Tom Peters
Ready, fire, aim. Do it! Make it happen! Action counts. No one ever sat their way to success.
Tom Peters
Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation - and about fundamental relations with one's fellows.
Tom Peters
Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.
Tom Peters
It's relatively simple. If we're not getting more, better, faster than they are getting more, better, faster, then we're getting less, no better or more worse.
Tom Peters
The winners stun us not by their cleverness, but by the fact that every tiny aspect of the business is just a touch better than the norm.
Tom Peters
It doesn't matter what product or service you're offering there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.
Tom Peters
If timing ain't everything, it's damn close
Tom Peters
We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.
Tom Peters
Companies have got to learn to eat change for breakfast.
Tom Peters
When it comes to e-book playback devices and software, I have always thought that the emphasis on ergonomic concerns as a tipping point for the end-user population was misplaced.
Tom Peters
Stellar teams are invariably made up of quirky individuals who typically rub each other raw, but they figure out - with the spiritual help of a gifted leader - how to be their peculiar selves and how to win championships as a team...at the same time.
Tom Peters
Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.
Tom Peters
Obviously, despite hard work and heroic efforts, many dreams don't come true. But if we don't dare to dream and then throw muscle, heart, and soul into making the dream come true, then WoW Projects-and all of the emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and financial riches that they bring will surely NOT be our lot in life!
Tom Peters