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Tom Peters
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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More quotes by Tom Peters
He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
Tom Peters
Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!
Tom Peters
A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
Tom Peters
A little (or more) boat burning would do many enterprises a world of good.
Tom Peters
What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
Tom Peters
Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!
Tom Peters
Books were rare,expensive, time-consuming to create and copy, and difficult to transport. That is why collections ofprint-based books developed around centers of religious belief, learning, and wealth. It was cheaper andeasier for people to come to the collection than for the collection, or parts of the collection, to go to thepeople.
Tom Peters
Steve Jobs is perhaps the most competitive human being I have ever met in my life, and yet I would argue one of the most artistic human beings I have ever met in my life. You can trash the movies all you want, but they do have an artistic component. And yet brutal competition knows no peers when it comes to Hollywood.
Tom Peters
One potential long-term problem with many current digital libraries is that they grew out of and aresupported by bricks-and-mortar libraries. Although there is nothing inherently wrong with that arrangement, inreality it creates a potentially dangerous situation that I call the other digital divide.
Tom Peters
I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
Tom Peters
Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
Tom Peters
The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
Tom Peters
Change is not so much about being the first one to embrace a new idea, but being the first to forget an old one
Tom Peters
Make an extensive table of project 'deliverables'. Label one column 'as requested'. Create another column labeled 'could be'. Make each 'could be' wild and woolly!
Tom Peters
There is no such thing as an insignificant improvement.
Tom Peters
I don't know what it means to manage the human imagination, but I do know that imagination is the main source of value in the new economy. And I know we'd better figure out the answer to my question-quick.
Tom Peters
Anybody who is an entrepreneur is a person who essentially has impaired judgment. The odds of success are zilch. This valley is loaded to the gills with a whole lot of totally insane people who honest to God believe that they can be the next Bill Gates or the next Scott McNealy. And that is genuinely stupid.
Tom Peters
Now it is much faster and cheaper to bring thedocument to the user, rather than ask the user to come to the document or collection.
Tom Peters
Screw-ups are the mark of excellence.
Tom Peters
You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.
Tom Peters
