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Quotes from Tom Peters

Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.
~ Tom Peters
Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
~ Tom Peters
Good managers have a bias for action.
~ Tom Peters
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
~ Tom Peters
'In Search of Excellence' was an afterthought, the runt of the McKinsey consulting litter, a hip-pocket project that was never supposed to amount to much.
~ Tom Peters
The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.
~ Tom Peters
Advantage comes not from the spectacular or the technical. Advantage comes from a persistent seeking of the mundane edge.
~ Tom Peters
Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
~ Tom Peters
The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.
~ Tom Peters
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
~ Tom Peters
Send 10-TEN!!-people flowers. Today. As "Thank yous" for good things "small"-or even large-done in the last two weeks.
~ Tom Peters
A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good - similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.
~ Tom Peters
Never, ever rest on your laurels. Today's laurels are tomorrow's compost.
~ Tom Peters
The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
~ Tom Peters
The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
~ Tom Peters
Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
~ Tom Peters
What gets measured gets done.
~ Tom Peters
Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
~ Tom Peters
All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
~ Tom Peters
A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
~ Tom Peters
Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.
~ Tom Peters
Digital ink technology holds substantial promise in terms of legibility, portability, and power consumption, but I am less confident about the communication aspect.
~ Tom Peters
If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.
~ Tom Peters
I don't want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as 'pops' giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.
~ Tom Peters