Tom Peters Quotes - Page 7

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• But there's no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.

  Tom Peters

  Trying, Stuff, Way

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• He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!

  Tom Peters

  Work, Reign, Prototype

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• Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she'd added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community. No rule says that only the local banker or car dealer can organize the program to raise supplemental funds for the public library or send the high school band on a well-earned special trip. Participating in community affairs, with time more than dollars, is good business from day one. It gets your name around, adds to your distinctiveness, and, best of all, makes you an attractive employer (which is the key to sustained success).

  Tom Peters

  Business, Real, School

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.117, Vintage

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• Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how "open" you are, you'll end up surrounded by "yes people." It's hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.

  Tom Peters

  Friends, Believe, Ideas

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.47, Vintage

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• If, as I anticipate, a wide array of personal, portable information/communication devices becomes increasingly important and widespread for information-intensive users, it will be a major challenge for libraries to adapt their content and services to such a diverse technological environment.

  Tom Peters

  Communication, Challenges, Important

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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• Business, life itself, is damned hard work if you wanna be good at it. Actually, that's precisely wrong. Business ceases to be work when you're chasing a dream that has engorged you. ("Work should be more fun than fun" - Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn't there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.

  Tom Peters

  Dream, Fun, Business

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.22, Vintage

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• Hire disrespectful people.

  Tom Peters

  Work, People, Disrespectful

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• It's relatively simple. If we're not getting more, better, faster than they are getting more, better, faster, then we're getting less, no better or more worse.

  Tom Peters

  Educational, Simple, Faster

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• I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.

  Tom Peters

  Book, Digital, Print

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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• Business isn't some disembodied bloodless enterprise. Profit is fine - a sign that the customer honors the value of what we do. But "enterprise" ( a lovely word ) is about heart. About beauty. It's about art. About people throwing themselves on the line. It's about passion and the selfless pursuit of an ideal.

  Tom Peters

  Art, Passion, Creativity

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• ...high end does not necessarily equal high price. It's a matter of attitude.

  Tom Peters

  Attitude, Doe, Matter

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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.

  Tom Peters

  Numbers, Excellence, Titles

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• Anybody who is an entrepreneur is a person who essentially has impaired judgment. The odds of success are zilch. This valley is loaded to the gills with a whole lot of totally insane people who honest to God believe that they can be the next Bill Gates or the next Scott McNealy. And that is genuinely stupid.

  Tom Peters

  Business, Stupid, Believe

  "The Peters Principles". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October 1997.

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• Want to accomplish something, any-damn-thing? Sharpen your political skills!

  Tom Peters

  Skills, Political, Want

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• We are no doubt in the Great Age of the Brand.

  Tom Peters

  Doubt, Age, Brands

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• Champions are pioneers, and pioneers get shot at. The companies that get the most from champions, therefore, are those that have rich support network so their pioneers will flourish. This point is so important it's hard to overstress. No support systems, no champions. No champions, no innovations.

  Tom Peters

  Business, Support Systems, Champion

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• Train everyone lavishly. You can't overspend on training.

  Tom Peters

  Business, Training, Management

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• Power lies in the details, and the tenacious pursuit of such hidden levers can pay off enormously. While you don't want to get a reputation as a prissy worrywart, worrying about the details in private is important. You may think you are the world's greatest speaker, but if the auditorium's sound system is singing static - well, forget it.

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  Inspirational, Lying, Thinking

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• The most important and visible outcropping of the action bias in excellent companies is their willingness to try things out, to experiment. If you wait until you believe you are safe, sure to be without occasional foolish feelings, you've most likely waited too long.

  Tom Peters

  Believe, Long, Waiting

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• The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.

  Tom Peters

  Ideas, Customers

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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.

  Tom Peters

  White, Facts, Life Is

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

  Tom Peters

  Lovely, Pay, Tribute

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• 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

  Thinking, Years, Giving

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• Many flagship state universities have wonderful digital libraries that are accessed by people around the world. In future, if not current, budget crises, trustees, board members, and administrators may wonder why these state institutions - with an articulated primary clientele of students, faculty, and staff members and a secondary clientele of all citizens of the state - should be spending resources on a digital library that is used by many people beyond the primary and secondary service populations.

  Tom Peters

  People, Library, World

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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• I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.

  Tom Peters

  Believe, Age, Internet

  Source: iveybusinessjournal.com

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