Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
TOM PETERSEntrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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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.
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I’m fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies – in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.
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Smile if it kills you. The physiology of smiling diffuses a lot of anger and angst. It makes your body and soul feel better.
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Leaders’ careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.
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If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.
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Oh Lord, there it is again. The question;” What kind of business should I start?” Incidentially, it has a twin that also sets me off: “What should I specialize in during the second year of my MBA studies?”
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Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.
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Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
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Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.
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What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village – an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
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Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.
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The world has not just “turned upside down”. It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.
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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.
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Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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