Tom Peters Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• The trouble with much of the advice business gets today about the need to be more vigorously creative is that its advocates often fail to distinguish between creativity and innovation. Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things... The shortage is of innovators.

  Tom Peters

  Creativity, Thinking, Creative

• 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

  Jobs, Age, Important

  "The Brand Called You" by Tom Peters, www.fastcompany.com. August 31, 1997.

• A while back, I came across a line attributed to IBM founder Thomas Watson. If you want to achieve excellence, he said, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

  Tom Peters

  Excellent Work, Excellence, Lines

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.10, Vintage

• 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

  Simple, Today, Way

• Send 10-TEN!!-people flowers. Today. As "Thank yous" for good things "small"-or even large-done in the last two weeks.

  Tom Peters

  Gratitude, Flower, Two

• Never, ever rest on your laurels. Today's laurels are tomorrow's compost.

  Tom Peters

  History, Today, Tomorrow

• Have you thanked a front-line employee for carrying around a great attitude ... today?

  Tom Peters

  Attitude, Lines, Today

• 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

  Sneakers, Buzz, Today

• The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.

  Tom Peters

  Home, Economy Today, Best Kept Secrets

• In today's economy there are no experts, no 'best and brightest' with all the answers. It's up to each one of us. The only way to screw up is to not try anything.

  Tom Peters

  Trying, Experts, Screw Ups

• Take someone NEW AND WEIRD to lunch today

  Tom Peters

  Lunch, Today

• The manager, in today's world, doesn't get paid to be a steward of resources, a favored term not so many years ago. He or she gets paid for one and only one thing: to make things better (incrementally and dramatically), to change things, to act - today.

  Tom Peters

  Years, World, Today

• It boils down to studenthood-in-perpetuity / curiosity-in-perpetuity / applied fanatic restlessness. That is, a belief that life is ONE BIG LEARNING EXPERIENCE. Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind - and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off, connections made, insights triggered. The results: an exponentially increased ability to tune up / reinvent / WOW-ize today's project at work.

  Tom Peters

  Education, Work, Curiosity

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