I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
TOM PETERSPassion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through the 17-hour days (month after month) and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the start-up process.
More Tom Peters Quotes
-
-
Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
TOM PETERS -
If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.
TOM PETERS -
Hire disrespectful people.
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 -
Gandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an incredible degree-their “personal style” was their “brand.” (“It” starts with personal style of the tip-top leadership team.
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 -
Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
TOM PETERS -
I think it’s wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
TOM PETERS -
Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
TOM PETERS -
A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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 -
The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it’s not fun, you’re wasting your life.
TOM PETERS -
It doesn’t matter what product or service you’re offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.
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 -
David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity ‘about every subject under the sun.’
TOM PETERS