Misreading Quote by Tom Peters Download Open image “Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.” — Tom Peters ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Misreading Odds Persistent
“I know that the chances for success are slim. [...] But odds are mathematical formulas calculated to give people a reason not to try.” — Jude Watson Copy Share Image
The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success. — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
Even if something has just a one percent chance of success, success boils down to how fast you exhaust your ninety-nine failures. — Richie Copy Share Image
Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction. — Al Bernstein Copy Share Image
“The possibility of failure does not prevent contestants from competing because when we are optimistic, we tend to ignore failure. But it is failure… — Vincent Okay Nwachukwu Copy Share Image
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you don't like? — Jean Cocteau 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
You gave me emotions that I read as love, little did I you cared about me no more than a friend. — Mike Smith Copy Share Image
I have spent my life watching, not to see beyond the world, merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my eyes. I… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I think it's a misreading of Dostoevsky to think of him as a programmatic theist. He's actually much closer to someone like William James.… — Will Self Copy Share Image
But, in the end, the books that surround me are the books that made me, through my reading (and misreading) of them; they fall… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, of course, lays out the delegated, enumerated, and therefore limited powers of Congress. Only through a deliberate… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
“Rob turned the rustling pages and grinned. 'Ach, she's writ here: "Oh, the dear Feegles ha' turned up again,"' he said. This met with… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“Fifteen love,' Chris said in a strong, clear voice as he set up for his next serve, and Elizabeth sensed that in addition to… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
In a language as idiomatically stressed as English, opportunities for misreadings are bound to arise. By a mere backward movement of stress, a verb… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Los Angeles had no culture of its own, just a large collection of misreadings of the artistic histories of other, proper cities. — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
Kant argued that, where nature could be considered beautiful in her acts of destruction, human violence appeared instead as monstrous. However, a misreading of… — Richard Marshall Copy Share Image
Misreading is a big part of reading, the way in which the level of attention you're paying can lead to some interesting residue. — Brian Evenson Copy Share Image
