I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
The company's most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand - innovation from everyone. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Anybody who is an entrepreneur is a person who essentially has impaired judgment. The odds of success are zilch. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Champions are pioneers, and pioneers get shot at. The companies that get the most from champions, therefore, are those that have rich… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
The trouble with much of the advice business gets today about the need to be more vigorously creative is that its advocates… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
'In Search of Excellence' - even the title - is a reminder that business isn't dry, dreary, boring, or by the numbers.… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I found myself declaiming, full flower, for an hour on the "utmost importance and urgency" of Blogging, telling him in no uncertain… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism - the failure to fail, and fail… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Steve Jobs is perhaps the most competitive human being I have ever met in my life, and yet I would argue one… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Business, life itself, is damned hard work if you wanna be good at it. Actually, that's precisely wrong. Business ceases to be… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
The market may never coalesce around one basic design, or even around two or three dominant devices. — Tom Peters Copy Share
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… — Tom Peters Copy Share
Anybody who is an entrepreneur is a person who essentially has impaired judgment. The odds of success are zilch. — Tom Peters Copy Share
Leaders' careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for. — Tom Peters Copy Share
I don't know what it means to manage the human imagination, but I do know that imagination is the main source of value in… — Tom Peters Copy Share
If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism - the failure to fail, and fail big, in… — Tom Peters Copy Share
Think about the market, think about the design, and think about who is going to design for that market. Hit the mark. — Tom Peters Copy Share
“The “Excellence Standard” is not about Grand Outcomes. In Zenlike terms, all we have is today. If the day’s work cannot be assessed as… — Tom Peters Copy Share
What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do. — Tom Peters Copy Share
