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One Quotes by Tom Peters
- 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…
- 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…
- Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation - and about fundamental relations with one's fellows.
- Make an extensive table of project 'deliverables'. Label one column 'as requested'. Create another column labeled 'could be'. Make each 'could be' wild and woolly!
- Leaders' careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.
- The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to 'tidy up' the mess, as opposed to understanding…
- The little people will get even, which is one of a thousand reasons why they are not little people at all. If you're a jerk…
- It's this simple: You are a brand. You are in charge of your brand. There is no single path to success. And there is no…
- It boils down to studenthood-in-perpetuity / curiosity-in-perpetuity / applied fanatic restlessness. That is, a belief that life is ONE BIG LEARNING EXPERIENCE. Something mysterious happens…
- In McKinsey's world, all of life is one of two things: strategy or organization.
- Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one's corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.
- Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she'd added her second employee, she was a pillar of…
- If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven't figured it out yet.
- You will be remembered, in the long haul, for the quality of your work, not the quantity of your work. No one evaluates Picasso based…
- One size NEVER fits all. One size fits one. Period
- One reason (among many) that women may well take over the world of "virtual enterprises" is that they seem to have a greater instinct for…
- One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.
- I endorse a lot of people - sometimes people say I endorse too many books. And my response has always been the same: If I…
- Leaders trust their guts. "Intuition" is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a "soft"…
- If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I've gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time.
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle