Tom Peters
United States
Born on 7 Nov 1942
Businessman
Born on 7 Nov 1942
Businessman
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The common wisdom is that... managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
The professional service firm�with its obsession on clients and projects�must be the new organizational model.
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.
The excellent companies treat the rank and file as the root source of quality and productivity gain.
In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies (1988)
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
I think economics is about passion. Economic progress, whether it is a two-person coffee shop or whether it is Netscape, is about people with brave ideas. Because it is brave to mortgage the house when you've got two kids to start a coffee shop.
Interview, Reason Magazine (1997)
I'm devastated when I get bad reviews. I taught a lot of that shit but every wound is fatal.
Quoted in Corporate Man to Corporate Skunk (1997)
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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