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They say plan it. I say do it.
Tom Peters
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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.
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
Companies have got to learn to eat change for breakfast.
Tom Peters
I don't want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as 'pops' giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.
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
Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are imperatives.
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
Lavish credit on anyone and everyone who helped you the least bit.
Tom Peters
For me, reading is reading.
Tom Peters
And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you're consistent, you're vulnerable to attack. Yes, it's a paradox. Now deal with it!
Tom Peters
Winston Churchill said that appetite was the most important thing about education. Leadership guru Warren Bennis says he wants to be remembered as 'curious to the end.' David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity 'about every subject under the sun.'
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The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.
Tom Peters
What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
Tom Peters
The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.
Tom Peters
I think it's wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
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Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
Tom Peters
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
The world has not just turned upside down. It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.
Tom Peters
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
If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?
Tom Peters
