Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
Businessperson
Economist
Writer
Baltimore
Maryland
Worse
Getting
Simple
Less
Better
Relatively
Educational
Faster

More quotes by Tom Peters

Image
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
Image
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.
Tom Peters
Image
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
Image
The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.
Tom Peters
Image
People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
Tom Peters
Image
You can't live life without an eraser.
Tom Peters
Image
If silly things were not done, intelligent things would never happen.
Tom Peters
Image
For me, reading is reading.
Tom Peters
Image
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.
Tom Peters
Image
Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
Tom Peters
Image
You have to stand out if you want to move up.
Tom Peters
Image
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
Image
They say plan it. I say do it.
Tom Peters
Image
What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?
Tom Peters
Image
Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.
Tom Peters
Image
The company's most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand - innovation from everyone.
Tom Peters
Image
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
Image
Don't let the vision be shot through with holes, but be damn sure some of your best and brightest are shooting at it -- with bazookas as well as sniper's rifles.
Tom Peters
Image
Companies have got to learn to eat change for breakfast.
Tom Peters
Image
The 'value added' for most any company, tiny or enormous, comes from the Quality of Experience provided.
Tom Peters