Quote

Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one's corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.

Tom Peters

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tom Peters
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
Businessperson
Economist
Writer
Baltimore
Maryland
Corporation
Network
Loyalty
Corporations
Instead
Least
Forget
Trying

More quotes by Tom Peters

Image
The company's most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand - innovation from everyone.
Tom Peters
Image
Creating in all employees the awareness that their best efforts are essential and that they will share in the rewards of the company's success.
Tom Peters
Image
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.
Tom Peters
Image
...high end does not necessarily equal high price. It's a matter of attitude.
Tom Peters
Image
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.
Tom Peters
Image
The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.
Tom Peters
Image
The unthinkable is thinkable. No: likely.
Tom Peters
Image
If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.
Tom Peters
Image
As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca.
Tom Peters
Image
Had Twitter been invented earlier, my books would have been shorter.
Tom Peters
Image
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
Image
Screw-ups are the mark of excellence.
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
I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
Tom Peters
Image
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
Image
Business, life itself, is damned hard work if you wanna be good at it. Actually, that's precisely wrong. Business ceases to be work when you're chasing a dream that has engorged you. (Work should be more fun than fun - Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn't there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.
Tom Peters
Image
One size NEVER fits all. One size fits one. Period
Tom Peters
Image
Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.
Tom Peters
Image
Send 10-TEN!!-people flowers. Today. As Thank yous for good things small-or even large-done in the last two weeks.
Tom Peters
Image
Only pissed-off people change the world.
Tom Peters