Tom Peters
Businessman
1942-11-07
Quotes by Tom Peters
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If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.
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If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.
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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.
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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.
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Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.
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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
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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.
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Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.
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'In Search of Excellence' - even the title - is a reminder that business isn't dry, dreary, boring, or by the numbers. Life at work can be cool - and work that's cool isn't confined to Tiger Woods, Yo-Yo Ma, or Tom Hanks. It's available to all of us and any of us.
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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.
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One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.
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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.
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Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
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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.
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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.
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Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
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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.
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