Quote

The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.

Tom Peters

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
Businessperson
Economist
Writer
Baltimore
Maryland
Satiated
Slightly
Mad
Curious
Dare
Learning
Passion
Race

More quotes by Tom Peters

Image
You have to stand out if you want to move up.
Tom Peters
Image
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
Image
Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at.
Tom Peters
Image
Who comes first? Don't be silly, says King Hal it's employees. That is - and this dear Watson, is elementary - if you genuinely want to put customers first, you must put employees more first.
Tom Peters
Image
Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
Tom Peters
Image
Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
Tom Peters
Image
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
Image
Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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
Hire attitude train skills.
Tom Peters
Image
Hire disrespectful people.
Tom Peters
Image
Only pissed-off people change the world.
Tom Peters
Image
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
Image
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
Image
There is no such thing as an insignificant improvement.
Tom Peters
Image
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
Image
Every collection reflects the ideas andvalues and interests of the individual or group who developed the collection.
Tom Peters
Image
...high end does not necessarily equal high price. It's a matter of attitude.
Tom Peters
Image
Ready, fire, aim. Do it! Make it happen! Action counts. No one ever sat their way to success.
Tom Peters
Image
Take someone NEW AND WEIRD to lunch today
Tom Peters