Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Your calendar never lies. All we have is our time. The way we spend our time is our priorities, is our strategy. Your calendar knows what you really care about. Do you?
Tom Peters
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Tom Peters
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
Businessperson
Economist
Writer
Baltimore
Maryland
Lying
Care
Really
Calendar
Way
Calendars
Never
Priorities
Time
Strategy
Lies
Spend
More quotes by Tom Peters
You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.
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
If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.
Tom Peters
Don't let the vision be shot through with holes, but be damn sure some of your best and brightest are shooting at it -- with bazookas as well as sniper's rifles.
Tom Peters
The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.
Tom Peters
The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
Tom Peters
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
Are you placing enough interesting, freakish, long shot, weirdo bets?
Tom Peters
Perception is all there is. If the customer think he's right, he's right.
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
It's relatively simple. If we're not getting more, better, faster than they are getting more, better, faster, then we're getting less, no better or more worse.
Tom Peters
There are few things that will take you further in life, than your ability to make a good presentation.
Tom Peters
To sell is above all to master the art and science of listening.
Tom Peters
There's nobody in the world that wouldn't change places with the Americans. The economy is phenomenally large, the entrepreneurial class is very alive and very well, the universities, despite budget problems, still turn out something like 90 percent of the refereed academic and technical articles in the world. There's a lot on everybody's agenda.
Tom Peters
I'm fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies - in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.
Tom Peters
In today's economy there are no experts, no 'best and brightest' with all the answers. It's up to each one of us. The only way to screw up is to not try anything.
Tom Peters
Digital content and electronic networks have changed the basic environmental conditionsin which documents are created, distributed, and used.
Tom Peters
People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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
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
