Quotes By Tom Peters
We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.
Tom Peters
The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
Tom Peters
I know it sounds crazy, but you've got to let what you're going to do find you, rather than you pursuing it.
Tom Peters
Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
Tom Peters
Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
Tom Peters
Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services - from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants - are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz.
Tom Peters
Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.
Tom Peters
If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.
Tom Peters
All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
Tom Peters
Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
Tom Peters
South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
Tom Peters
The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
Tom Peters
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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
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 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
Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!
Tom Peters
For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.
Tom Peters