Nearly 100% of innovation-from business to politics-is inspired not by "market analysis" but by people who are supremely pissed off by the… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
The winners stun us not by their cleverness, but by the fact that every tiny aspect of the business is just a… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
In the great city of San Francisco, where I used to live, at 2 in the morning every other Victorian house has… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
My half-baked reading of history is that we continue to go through these waves of entrepreneurial explosion followed by merger mania and… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
One of the biggest problems of 'In Search of Excellence' is that it focused on giant, publicly-traded companies. There are thousands upon… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
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
WORK ON YOUR STORY! He/she who has the best story wins! In life! In business! The White House! — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
To grasp organizational life as it is, read novels (!) .... It is my fervent belief that we will never design rational… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
We're going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business - the attribute that is highest in demand and… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I'm fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies - in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small… — 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
Like it or not - and often we don't - power is a pervasive phenomenon. From midnight decisions in the Oval Office… — 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
One reason (among many) that women may well take over the world of "virtual enterprises" is that they seem to have a… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you're consistent, you're vulnerable to… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Oh Lord, there it is again. The question;" What kind of business should I start?" Incidentially, it has a twin that also… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
“John Bogle wrote the best “business” (LIFE!) book I’ve read in years. The (BRILLIANT!) title: Enough.” — 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 Image
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 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
