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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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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
The selfish leader will attempt to lead others for their own gain and for the detriment of others.
Tom Peters
Good managers have a bias for action.
Tom Peters
What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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
Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
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
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
When it comes to e-book playback devices and software, I have always thought that the emphasis on ergonomic concerns as a tipping point for the end-user population was misplaced.
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
Digital content and electronic networks have changed the basic environmental conditionsin which documents are created, distributed, and used.
Tom Peters
To grasp organizational life as it is, read novels (!) .... It is my fervent belief that we will never design rational processes that overcome such irregularities-don't bother telling that to a consultant. Hence, we should embrace the real, nonrational, nonlinear world with vigor and glee-and develop enterprise and career strategies accordingl
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
Dot the i's, cross the t's, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil is in the details.
Tom Peters
If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven't figured it out yet.
Tom Peters
There are few things that will take you further in life, than your ability to make a good presentation.
Tom Peters
Make an extensive table of project 'deliverables'. Label one column 'as requested'. Create another column labeled 'could be'. Make each 'could be' wild and woolly!
Tom Peters
Hire disrespectful people.
Tom Peters
Even a poor, out-of-datecollection reflects in its own way the values of the people who created it and the community it serves.
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
