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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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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
The winners stun us not by their cleverness, but by the fact that every tiny aspect of the business is just a touch better than the norm.
Tom Peters
The 'value added' for most any company, tiny or enormous, comes from the Quality of Experience provided.
Tom Peters
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
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
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
For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.
Tom Peters
If you're a leader, your whole reason for living is to help human beings develop - to really develop people and make work a place that's energetic and exciting and a growth opportunity, whether you're running a Housekeeping Department or Google. I mean, this is not rocket science.
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
The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.
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
What gets measured gets done.
Tom Peters
If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?
Tom Peters
Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
Tom Peters
All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
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
Because nearly all digital libraries are tied to bricks-and-mortar institutions, the funding base tends to be quite localized.
Tom Peters
A little (or more) boat burning would do many enterprises a world of good.
Tom Peters
Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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
