Tom Peters Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Tom Peters
Tom Peters Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Tom Peters on Wise Famous Quotes.
Unless you walk out into the unknown, the odds of making a profound difference in your life are pretty low.
Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one's corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.
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
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.
Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated ... they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.
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.
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing ... layout, processes, and procedures.
Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade.
Organize as much as possible around teams, to achieve enhanced focus, task orientation, innovativeness, and individual commitment.
There are few things that will take you further in life, than your ability to make a good presentation.
Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.
Think about the market, think about the design, and think about who is going to design for that market. Hit the mark.
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.
Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens.
If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.
Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.
The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it's not fun, you're wasting your life.
Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.
If the other guy is getting better, then you'd better be getting better faster than the other guy is getting better ... or you're getting worse.
The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
Anybody who is an entrepreneur is a person who essentially has impaired judgment. The odds of success are zilch.
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.
Change is not so much about being the first one to embrace a new idea, but being the first to forget an old one
The 'value added' for most any company, tiny or enormous, comes from the Quality of Experience provided.
Advantage comes not from the spectacular or the technical. Advantage comes from a persistent seeking of the mundane edge.
The world has not just "turned upside down". It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.
Leaders' careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.
Send 10-TEN!!-people flowers. Today. As "Thank yous" for good things "small"-or even large-done in the last two weeks.
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.
Who, precisely, are your Dreamers? Are their Dreams in Technicolor? Do you allow their most Outrageous Dreams to be seen in public?
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.
I know it sounds crazy, but you've got to let what you're going to do find you, rather than you pursuing it.