Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The common wisdom is that ... managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
Tom Peters
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
Businessperson
Economist
Writer
Baltimore
Maryland
People
Employee
Managers
Nonsense
Motivation
Bring
Wisdom
Common
Motivate
Learn
Employees
More quotes by 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
OPPORTUNITY is not knocking. It is pounding on your door.
Tom Peters
The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.
Tom Peters
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
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.'
Tom Peters
Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.
Tom Peters
Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
Tom Peters
It doesn't matter what product or service you're offering there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.
Tom Peters
Digital ink technology holds substantial promise in terms of legibility, portability, and power consumption, but I am less confident about the communication aspect.
Tom Peters
People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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
MP3 players and flash memory devices are good for data storage and playback of music and digital talking books, but they offer little or nothing in the way of visual presentation of information and communication.
Tom Peters
To sell is above all to master the art and science of listening.
Tom Peters
Only pissed-off people change the world.
Tom Peters
I'm about as far from being a flag-waver - you won't find any American flag pins in my drawer - as someone can be.
Tom Peters
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
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
An era similar to the one in which the black rotary phone dominated its product category may not recur anytime soon.
Tom Peters
The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
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
