Quote

If timing ain't everything, it's damn close

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
Timing
Damn
Close
Everything

More quotes by Tom Peters

Image
Champions are pioneers, and pioneers get shot at. The companies that get the most from champions, therefore, are those that have rich support network so their pioneers will flourish. This point is so important it's hard to overstress. No support systems, no champions. No champions, no innovations.
Tom Peters
Image
Companies have got to learn to eat change for breakfast.
Tom Peters
Image
My half-baked reading of history is that we continue to go through these waves of entrepreneurial explosion followed by merger mania and consolidation. Out of that come big sluggish companies that eventually collapse under the weight of what they've created, and are killed off by the next wave of entrepreneurs.
Tom Peters
Image
Inspiring visions rarely (I'm tempted to say never) include numbers.
Tom Peters
Image
Hire attitude train skills.
Tom Peters
Image
Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.
Tom Peters
Image
I would not be surprised to see interesting new forms of expression and literary genres develop as the e-book movement matures.
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
Are you placing enough interesting, freakish, long shot, weirdo bets?
Tom Peters
Image
Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.
Tom Peters
Image
It doesn't matter what product or service you're offering there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.
Tom Peters
Image
When you choose a managerial path, you are choosing to devote your life to people. Period.
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
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
Image
If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.
Tom Peters
Image
As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.
Tom Peters
Image
A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
Tom Peters
Image
There is no such thing as an insignificant improvement.
Tom Peters
Image
If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?
Tom Peters
Image
If, as I anticipate, a wide array of personal, portable information/communication devices becomes increasingly important and widespread for information-intensive users, it will be a major challenge for libraries to adapt their content and services to such a diverse technological environment.
Tom Peters