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Tom Peters
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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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Think about the market, think about the design, and think about who is going to design for that market. Hit the mark.
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
There is no such thing as an insignificant improvement.
Tom Peters
Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.
Tom Peters
Remember: You are the only human being in the world who can help this particular customer at this particular moment in time.
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
Every collection reflects the ideas andvalues and interests of the individual or group who developed the collection.
Tom Peters
It's this simple: You are a brand. You are in charge of your brand. There is no single path to success. And there is no one right way to create the brand called You. Except this: Start today. Or else.
Tom Peters
In the great city of San Francisco, where I used to live, at 2 in the morning every other Victorian house has somebody who is writing the great American novel. And the city is not loaded with James Joyces or Virginia Woolfs. But entrepreneurship is about distorted views of reality.
Tom Peters
Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.
Tom Peters
A little (or more) boat burning would do many enterprises a world of good.
Tom Peters
The populations of most cities around the world continue to grow. The reasonspeople congregate in cities are various and complex, and the dawn of the digital age has not put much of adamper on the human urge to congregate.
Tom Peters
Perception is all there is. If the customer think he's right, he's right.
Tom Peters
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
The trouble with much of the advice business gets today about the need to be more vigorously creative is that its advocates often fail to distinguish between creativity and innovation. Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things... The shortage is of innovators.
Tom Peters
You have to stand out if you want to move up.
Tom Peters
Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how open you are, you'll end up surrounded by yes people. It's hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.
Tom Peters
Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain't in the mean, the mode or the median - it's in the differences that occur throughout a population.
Tom Peters
Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one's corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.
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
