Tom Peters

Lists simplify, clarify, edify.

— Tom Peters

Hire attitude train skills.

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Do it, fix it, try it.

— Tom Peters

You are your projects!

— Tom Peters

The unthinkable is thinkable. No: likely.

— Tom Peters

Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.

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Bold botches are to be cherished.

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Progress is mostly the product of rogues.

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“Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.” Those”

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Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.

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Lavish credit on anyone and everyone who helped you the least bit.

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The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.

— Tom Peters

Nothing good or great can be done in the absence of enthusiasm.

— Tom Peters

Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.

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OPPORTUNITY is not "knocking." It is pounding on your door.

— Tom Peters

Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.

— Tom Peters

If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.

— Tom Peters

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

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I find digital content much easier and more rewarding to interact with on screen than printed on paper.

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Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.

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As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was…

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The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you…

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Collections of books and other documents, either printed or electronic, are a form of congregation.

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We're going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business - the attribute that is highest in demand and…

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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.…

— Tom Peters

The trouble with much of the advice business gets today about the need to be more vigorously creative is that its advocates…

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Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services - from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants - are…

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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…

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Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to…

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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…

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I found myself declaiming, full flower, for an hour on the "utmost importance and urgency" of Blogging, telling him in no uncertain…

— Tom Peters

Books were rare,expensive, time-consuming to create and copy, and difficult to transport. That is why collections ofprint-based books developed around centers of…

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Gandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an…

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The Chinese are quite entrepreneurial. Remember when Lenovo bought IBM's PC division. It was said that China didn't need a brand name,…

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Oh Lord, there it is again. The question;" What kind of business should I start?" Incidentially, it has a twin that also…

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It boils down to studenthood-in-perpetuity / curiosity-in-perpetuity / applied fanatic restlessness. That is, a belief that life is ONE BIG LEARNING EXPERIENCE.…

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One reason (among many) that women may well take over the world of "virtual enterprises" is that they seem to have a…

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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…

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Fact is, the work place to a great extent is "where we live." We need star accountants. Boffo saleswomen. Over-the-top creatives in…

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We all know of the dangers and inequities of the traditional digital divide: People who have good access tocomputer networks have a…

— Tom Peters