Tom Peters Quotes

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Tom Peters Quote: “Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.”

Tom Peters Quote: “Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.”

Tom Peters Quote: “There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity.”

Tom Peters Quote: “Ready, fire, aim. Do it! Make it happen! Action counts. No one ever sat their way to success.”

Tom Peters Quote: “Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.”

Tom Peters Quote: “Hire attitude train skills.”

Tom Peters Quote: “Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.”

Tom Peters Quote: “The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.”

Tom Peters Quote: “Never, ever rest on your laurels. Today’s laurels are tomorrow’s compost.”

Tom Peters Quote: “Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere.”

Tom Peters Quote: “Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade.”

Tom Peters Quote: “Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.”

Tom Peters Quote: “The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.”

Tom Peters Quote: “Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.”

Tom Peters Quote: “If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?”

Tom Peters Quote: “Do it, fix it, try it.”

Tom Peters Quote: “Good managers have a bias for action.”

Tom Peters Quote: “A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.”

Tom Peters Quote: “If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention.”

Tom Peters Quote: “Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.”

Tom Peters Quote: “In McKinsey’s world, all of life is one of two things: strategy or organization.”

Tom Peters Quote: “Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.”

Tom Peters Quote: “To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.”

Tom Peters Quote: “The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.”

Tom Peters Quote: “You can’t live life without an eraser.”

Tom Peters Quote: “Celebrate what you want to see more of.”

Tom Peters Quote: “Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?”

Tom Peters Quote: “Communication is everyone’s panacea for everything.”

Tom Peters Quote: “Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.”

Tom Peters Quote: “The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.”

Tom Peters Quote: “Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.”

Tom Peters Quote: “An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones, and live with paradox will be the effective leader’s premier trait.”

Tom Peters Quote: “You will be remembered, in the long haul, for the quality of your work, not the quantity of your work. No one evaluates Picasso based on the number of paintings he churned out.”

Tom Peters Quote: “You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.”

Tom Peters Quote: “Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.”

Tom Peters Quote: “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 Quote: “Leaders do stuff that matters.”

Tom Peters Quote: “The ‘value added’ for most any company, tiny or enormous, comes from the Quality of Experience provided.”

Tom Peters Quote: “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 Quote: “If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.”

Tom Peters Quote: “TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.”

Tom Peters Quote: “Hire disrespectful people.”

Tom Peters Quote: “Smile if it kills you. The physiology of smiling diffuses a lot of anger and angst. It makes your body and soul feel better.”

Tom Peters Quote: “The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible...”

Tom Peters Quote: “To sell is above all to master the art and science of listening.”

Tom Peters Quote: “Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!”

Tom Peters Quote: “The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to ‘tidy up’ the mess, as opposed to understanding it’s a ‘day one’ issue and part of everything.”

Tom Peters Quote: “The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.”

Tom Peters Quote: “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 Quote: “Forget all the conventional ‘rules’ but one. There is one golden rule: Stick to topics you deeply care about and don’t keep your passion buttoned inside your vest. An audience’s biggest turn-on is the speaker’s obvious enthusiasm. If you are lukewarm about the issue, forget it!”

Tom Peters Quote: “I am my clients. I am defined by who I do business with.”

Tom Peters Quote: “Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.”

Tom Peters Quote: “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 Quote: “One percent improvement in 1,000 things is better than 1,000% improvement in one thing.”

Tom Peters Quote: “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 Quote: “Perception is all there is. If the customer think he’s right, he’s right.”

Tom Peters Quote: “Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of staying employed in the years ahead.”

Tom Peters Quote: “Swipe from the best, then adapt.”

Tom Peters Quote: “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 Quote: “Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It’s about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it’s about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.”

Tom Peters Quote: “Are you placing enough interesting, freakish, long shot, weirdo bets?”

Tom Peters Quote: “Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how “open” you are, you’ll end up surrounded by “yes people.” It’s hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.”

Tom Peters Quote: “The new idea either finds a champion or it dies. No ordinary involvement with a new idea provides the energy required to cope with the indifference and resistance that change provokes.”

Tom Peters Quote: “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 Quote: “There are few things that will take you further in life, than your ability to make a good presentation.”

Tom Peters Quote: “How do you humiliate and demean someone and then expect him or her to care about product quality.”

Tom Peters Quote: “What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.”

Tom Peters Quote: “Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.”

Tom Peters Quote: “The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.”

Tom Peters Quote: “Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.”

Tom Peters Quote: “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 Quote: “The widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs.”

Tom Peters Quote: “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 Quote: “Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.”

Tom Peters Quote: “They say plan it. I say do it.”

Tom Peters Quote: “I don’t know what it means to manage the human imagination, but I do know that imagination is the main source of value in the new economy. And I know we’d better figure out the answer to my question-quick.”

Tom Peters Quote: “The selfish leader will attempt to lead others for their own gain and for the detriment of others.”

Tom Peters Quote: “Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.”

Tom Peters Quote: “If timing ain’t everything, it’s damn close.”

Tom Peters Quote: “Skill at creating, exploiting, and exiting crucial alliances beats ownership of fixed assets.”

Tom Peters Quote: “Effective visions are lived in details, not broad strokes.”

Tom Peters Quote: “Musing on the phrase ‘waste of time.’ So much more complex than it appears. Many ‘wastes of time’ small talk, daydreaming are imperatives.”

Tom Peters Quote: “If silly things were not done, intelligent things would never happen.”

Tom Peters Quote: “Remember: You are the only human being in the world who can help this particular customer at this particular moment in time.”

Tom Peters Quote: “Bold botches are to be cherished.”

Tom Peters Quote: “Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation – and about fundamental relations with one’s fellows.”

Tom Peters Quote: “If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!”

Tom Peters Quote: “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 Quote: “All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.”

Tom Peters Quote: “Business book writing for me is when some set of ideas gets stuck in my mind, I write a book about it. I haven’t got a theory and I haven’t got a framework.”

Tom Peters Quote: “I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.”

Tom Peters Quote: “Who, precisely, are your Dreamers? Are their Dreams in Technicolor? Do you allow their most Outrageous Dreams to be seen in public?”

Tom Peters Quote: “South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village – an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.”

Tom Peters Quote: “The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.”

Tom Peters Quote: “Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.”

Tom Peters Quote: “Creating in all employees the awareness that their best efforts are essential and that they will share in the rewards of the company’s success.”

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