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Top 180 Tom Peters Quotes (2025 Update)

Tom Peters Quote: “Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.”
Tom Peters Quote: “Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.”
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: “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: “Ready, fire, aim. Do it! Make it happen! Action counts. No one ever sat their way to success.”
Tom Peters Quote: “There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity.”
Tom Peters Quote: “Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.”
Tom Peters Quote: “Hire attitude, train skills.”
Tom Peters Quote: “One size NEVER fits all. One size fits one. Period.”
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: “If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention.”
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: “Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere.”
Tom Peters Quote: “The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.”
Tom Peters Quote: “Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.”
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: “Celebrate what you want to see more of.”
Tom Peters Quote: “One percent improvement in 1,000 things is better than 1,000% improvement in one thing.”
Tom Peters Quote: “Do it, fix it, try it.”
Tom Peters Quote: “Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.”
Tom Peters Quote: “Good managers have a bias for action.”
Tom Peters Quote: “The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.”
Tom Peters Quote: “It’s this simple: You are a brand. You are in charge of your brand. There is no single path to success. And there is no one right way to create the brand called You. Except this: Start today. Or else.”
Tom Peters Quote: “If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.”
Tom Peters Quote: “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 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: “In McKinsey’s world, all of life is one of two things: strategy or organization.”
Tom Peters Quote: “A career is a portfolio of projects that teach you new skills, gain you new expertise, develop new capabilities, grow your colleague set, and constantly reinvent you as a brand.”
Tom Peters Quote: “Brand inside is more important than brand outside for sustained success.”
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: “Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!”
Tom Peters Quote: “Fail faster. Succeed sooner.” – David Kelley, founder IDEO.”
Tom Peters Quote: “Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.”
Tom Peters Quote: “Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.”
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: “A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.”
Tom Peters Quote: “You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.”
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: “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: “There are few things that will take you further in life, than your ability to make a good presentation.”
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: “Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?”
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: “Are you placing enough interesting, freakish, long shot, weirdo bets?”
Tom Peters Quote: “TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.”
Tom Peters Quote: “You can’t live life without an eraser.”
Tom Peters Quote: “What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.”
Tom Peters Quote: “If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!”
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