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If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?
Tom Peters
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Tom Peters
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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Forget all the conventional 'rules' but one. There is one golden rule: Stick to topics you deeply care about and don't keep your passion buttoned inside your vest. An audience's biggest turn-on is the speaker's obvious enthusiasm. If you are lukewarm about the issue, forget it!
Tom Peters
Inspiring visions rarely (I'm tempted to say never) include numbers.
Tom Peters
Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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
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
Collections of books and other documents, either printed or electronic, are a form of congregation.
Tom Peters
To grasp organizational life as it is, read novels (!) .... It is my fervent belief that we will never design rational processes that overcome such irregularities-don't bother telling that to a consultant. Hence, we should embrace the real, nonrational, nonlinear world with vigor and glee-and develop enterprise and career strategies accordingl
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If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.
Tom Peters
Companies have got to learn to eat change for breakfast.
Tom Peters
I want the public as well as libraries and schools to enjoy unlimited access to public-domain books. This means no charges for these kind of texts themselves.
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
I am confident that for the foreseeable future (barring some catastrophic event affecting economic, energy, electrical, and communications systems), many subpopulations that use information intensively (e.g., students, academics, library patrons, white collar workers) will be using some sort of portal information appliance.
Tom Peters
To sell is above all to master the art and science of listening.
Tom Peters
Ready, fire, aim. Do it! Make it happen! Action counts. No one ever sat their way to success.
Tom Peters
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
Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does. Having tried this for several months, however, I can report from the trenches that, for me, immersive listening is as intellectually challenging, stimulating, and rewarding as immersive reading.
Tom Peters
The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.
Tom Peters
The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
Tom Peters
We often hear that the digital age has resulted in a devaluing of time, space, and place. But I wonder if theseclaims are exaggerated.
Tom Peters
Send 10-TEN!!-people flowers. Today. As Thank yous for good things small-or even large-done in the last two weeks.
Tom Peters
