Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
TOM PETERSA completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
More Tom Peters Quotes
-
-
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 -
Hire disrespectful people.
TOM PETERS -
You are your projects!
TOM PETERS -
TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
TOM PETERS -
For me, reading is reading.
TOM PETERS -
The company’s most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand – innovation from everyone.
TOM PETERS -
Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
TOM PETERS -
Become a “learning organization”. Shuck your arrogance – “if it isn’t our idea, it can’t be that good” – and become a determined copycat/ adapter/ enhancer.
TOM PETERS -
But there’s no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.
TOM PETERS -
Even a poor, out-of-datecollection reflects in its own way the values of the people who created it and the community it serves.
TOM PETERS -
Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
TOM PETERS -
The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.
TOM PETERS -
I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.
TOM PETERS -
The good news – and it is largely good news – is that everyone has a chance to stand out. Everyone has a chance to learn, improve, and build up their skills. Everyone has a chance to be a brand worthy of remark
TOM PETERS -
Business ceases to be work when you’re chasing a dream that has engorged you. (“Work should be more fun than fun” – Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn’t there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.
TOM PETERS