Tom Peters Quotes

• There is no such thing as an insignificant improvement.

  Tom Peters

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• There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity.

  Tom Peters

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• Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of staying employed in the years ahead.

  Tom Peters

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• 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.

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  Tags in Grassroots, Organizing

• Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.

  Tom Peters

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  Tags in Stable, Excellence

• Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services – from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants – are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz.

  Tom Peters

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Restaurants, Transcends

• 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

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  Tags in Revolution, Reaching

• The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we’re going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.

  Tom Peters

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  Tags in Statistically, Change

• The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.

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  Tags in Athletes, Consummate

• Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, ‘Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.’ Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Cool, Says

• 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

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  Tags in Statistically, Emotionally

• 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

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Importance, Regardless

• One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.

  Tom Peters

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  Tags in Lovely, Simply

• Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.

  Tom Peters

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• 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

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  Tags in Pursuing, Rather

• 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

  Topics in Advice

  Tags in Audience

• 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

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  Tags in Web, Driving

• Everyone has a chance to learn, improve, and build up their skills.

  Tom Peters

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Learn, Build

• Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

  Tom Peters

  Topics in Past

  Tags in Winner, Change, Learn, Enthusiasm

• We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo… excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.

  Tom Peters

  Topics in Environment

  Tags in Provide, People, Things, Most, Found

Tom Peters (37)

Birth:	7th November, 1942
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Consultant, Writer

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