In McKinsey's world, all of life is one of two things: strategy or organization. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
There are few things that will take you further in life, than your ability to make a good presentation. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Unless you walk out into the unknown, the odds of making a profound difference in your life are pretty low. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it's… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I don't want an epitaph on my gravestone that says, 'He would have pursued some big dreams in his life, but other… — 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
When you choose a managerial path, you are choosing to devote your life to people. Period. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big,… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
If you're a leader, your whole reason for living is to help human beings develop - to really develop people and make… — 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
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
Obviously, despite hard work and heroic efforts, many dreams don't come true. But if we don't dare to dream and then throw… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
We all know of the dangers and inequities of the traditional digital divide: People who have good access tocomputer networks have a… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
The 10 or 12 artists I have known really well all my life are at least as competitive as professional athletes. They… — 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
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
Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated...they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better. — 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
