"My half-baked reading of history is that we……" — Tom Peters
"My half-baked reading of history is that we continue to go through these waves of entrepreneurial explosion followed by merger mania and consolidation. Out of that come big sluggish companies that eventually collapse under the weight of what they've created, and are killed off by the next wave of entrepreneurs."
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182 Quotes by Tom Peters
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Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!
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Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain't in the mean, the…
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It's relatively simple. If we're not getting more, better, faster than they are getting more, better, faster, then we're getting…
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Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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Are you placing enough interesting, freakish, long shot, weirdo bets?
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The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun.…
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The new idea either finds a champion or it dies. No ordinary involvement with a new idea provides the energy…
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Train everyone lavishly. You can't overspend on training.
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Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is…
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