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Quotes from Tom Peters

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~ Tom Peters
All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
~ Tom Peters
I endorse a lot of people - sometimes people say I endorse too many books. And my response has always been the same: If I can get one case study that can give me one good idea that I can implement for $25, or for these days one-third of that on Kindle, I've gotten a very good deal.
~ Tom Peters
The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
~ Tom Peters
Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it...only business people think it isn't necessary to train.
~ Tom Peters
And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you're consistent, you're vulnerable to attack. Yes, it's a paradox. Now deal with it!
~ Tom Peters
Don't 'tolerate' mistakes. Embrace them!
~ Tom Peters
Train everyone lavishly. You can't overspend on training.
~ Tom Peters
Swipe from the best, then adapt.
~ Tom Peters
You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.
~ Tom Peters
If the other guy is getting better, then you'd better be getting better faster than the other guy is getting better... or you're getting worse.
~ Tom Peters
As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca.
~ Tom Peters
If youre not confused, youre not paying attention.
~ Tom Peters
Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at.
~ Tom Peters
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.
~ Tom Peters
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 it's a 'day one' issue and part of everything.
~ Tom Peters
Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
~ Tom Peters
The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
~ Tom Peters
Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
~ Tom Peters
Excellence comes from human beings doing things of value that customers find memorable.
~ Tom Peters
How do you achieve excellence?...Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
~ Tom Peters
Do it, fix it, try it.
~ Tom Peters
Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
~ Tom Peters
Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade.
~ Tom Peters