Tom Peters Quotes

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• Hire for attitude. Train for skill... More
• Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
• Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!
• Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain't in the mean, the mode or the median -…
• 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…
• Swipe from the best, then adapt.
• Are you placing enough interesting, freakish, long shot, weirdo bets?
• The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it's not fun, you're…
• The new idea either finds a champion or it dies. No ordinary involvement with a new idea provides the energy required to cope with the…
• Train everyone lavishly. You can't overspend on training.
• Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through…
• 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…
• 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…
• I don't want an epitaph on my gravestone that says, 'He would have pursued some big dreams in his life, but other people wouldn't let…
• Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
• The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
• Obviously, despite hard work and heroic efforts, many dreams don't come true. But if we don't dare to dream and then throw muscle, heart, and…
• Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation - and about fundamental relations with one's fellows.
• We must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.
• Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.

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