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Unless you walk out into the unknown, the odds of making a profound difference in your life are pretty low. — Tom Peters
Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one's corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead. — Tom Peters
You have to stand out if you want to move up. — Tom Peters
The trick, and it's a tough one, is a common cultural understanding of what kind of failure is okay and what kind leads to disaster. But — 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
Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time. — Tom Peters
The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way. — Tom Peters
Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must. — Tom Peters
Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. — Tom Peters
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
I had no idea what I was doing when I wrote 'Search.' There was no carefully designed work plan. There was no theory that I was out to prove. — Tom Peters
If you're not confused, you're not paying attention. — Tom Peters
An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones, and live with paradox will be the effective leader's premier trait. — Tom Peters
GIVE THE WORLD A CLEAR PICTURE OF WHO YOU ARE. — Tom Peters
A little (or more) boat burning would do many enterprises a world of good. — Tom Peters
If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period! — Tom Peters
Progress is mostly the product of rogues. — Tom Peters
The company's most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand - innovation from everyone. — Tom Peters
There are few things that will take you further in life, than your ability to make a good presentation. — Tom Peters
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
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
We're going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business - the attribute that is highest in demand and shortest in supply. — Tom Peters
Swipe from the best, then adapt. — Tom Peters
One size NEVER fits all. One size fits one. Period — Tom Peters
If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when? — Tom Peters
Nothing good or great can be done in the absence of enthusiasm. — Tom Peters
Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of staying employed in the years ahead. — Tom Peters
The best leaders ... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols. — Tom Peters
Good managers have a bias for action. — Tom Peters
Train everyone lavishly. You can't overspend on training. — Tom Peters
We are no doubt in the Great Age of the Brand. — Tom Peters
Everyone has a chance to learn, improve, and build up their skills. — Tom Peters
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
The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners. — Tom Peters
OLD: Be No.1 or No.2 in Your Market. NEW: Find a Niche, Create Something New. — Tom Peters
Companies have got to learn to eat change for breakfast. — Tom Peters
It's not enough to be close to the customer. You've got to be glued to the customer. — Tom Peters
Remember my mantra: distinct ... or extinct. — Tom Peters
Life is too short for non-WOW projects. — Tom Peters
Send 10-TEN!!-people flowers. Today. As "Thank yous" for good things "small"-or even large-done in the last two weeks. — Tom Peters
Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change. — Tom Peters
Have you thanked a front-line employee for carrying around a great attitude ... today? — Tom Peters
In McKinsey's world, all of life is one of two things: strategy or organization. — Tom Peters
Take someone NEW AND WEIRD to lunch today — Tom Peters
I know it sounds crazy, but you've got to let what you're going to do find you, rather than you pursuing it. — Tom Peters
Leaders' careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for. — Tom Peters
Ready, fire, aim. Do it! Make it happen! Action counts. No one ever sat their way to success. — Tom Peters
Who, precisely, are your Dreamers? Are their Dreams in Technicolor? Do you allow their most Outrageous Dreams to be seen in public? — Tom Peters
You are your projects! — Tom Peters
Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders. — Tom Peters
If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I've gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time. — 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
You can't think your way out of a box; you've got to act. — Tom Peters
We are all Michaelangelos. — 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
The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas. — Tom Peters
Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds. — Tom Peters
Don't settle for less than is possible. — Tom Peters
Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes. — Tom Peters
Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period. — Tom Peters
Branding is about everything. — Tom Peters
If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven't figured it out yet. — Tom Peters
Effective visions are lived in details, not broad strokes. — Tom Peters
Advantage comes not from the spectacular or the technical. Advantage comes from a persistent seeking of the mundane edge. — Tom Peters
I don't want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as 'pops' giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand. — Tom Peters
Do it, fix it, try it. — Tom Peters
The common wisdom is that ... managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation. — Tom Peters
Remember: You are the only human being in the world who can help this particular customer at this particular moment in time. — Tom Peters
How do you achieve excellence? ... Stop doing non-excellent stuff! — Tom Peters
What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do. — Tom Peters
Formula for success: under promise and over deliver. — Tom Peters
Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work. — Tom Peters
Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere — Tom Peters
The selfish leader will attempt to lead others for their own gain and for the detriment of others. — Tom Peters
Are Your Customers saying WOW? — Tom Peters
If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there. — Tom Peters
The world has not just "turned upside down". It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace. — Tom Peters
Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view. — Tom Peters
Change is not so much about being the first one to embrace a new idea, but being the first to forget an old one — Tom Peters
Hire for attitude. Train for skill ... More — Tom Peters
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade. — Tom Peters
When you choose a managerial path, you are choosing to devote your life to people. Period. — Tom Peters
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. — Tom Peters
As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca. — Tom Peters
Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships. — Tom Peters
South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge. — Tom Peters
There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity — Tom Peters
OPPORTUNITY is not "knocking." It is pounding on your door. — Tom Peters
Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation - and about fundamental relations with one's fellows. — Tom Peters
Brand inside is more important than brand outside for sustained success. — Tom Peters
One percent improvement in 1,000 things is better than 1,000% improvement in one thing. — Tom Peters
"Old" is definitely not cool in America. Never has been. — 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
The 'value added' for most any company, tiny or enormous, comes from the Quality of Experience provided. — Tom Peters
One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being. — Tom Peters
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity. — Tom Peters
You can
only improve what you measure. — Tom Peters
Had Twitter been invented earlier, my books would have been shorter. — Tom Peters
The unthinkable is thinkable. No: likely. — Tom Peters
Treat the customer as an appreciating asset. — Tom Peters

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