black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.

Tom Peters

You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.
TOM PETERS

Business Dull Lunch
If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.
TOM PETERS

Clean Desk Company Nuts Office Policy
Dot the i’s, cross the t’s, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil is in the details.
TOM PETERS

Devil Entrepreneur Phones
Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.
TOM PETERS

Appreciate Assets Business
Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
TOM PETERS

Applause Appreciation Approval
If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!
TOM PETERS

Better Business Love Passion Period
Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.
TOM PETERS

Able Mastery Remorse Sweat
David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity ‘about every subject under the sun.’
TOM PETERS

Copywriters Curiosity Subject Sun
TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
TOM PETERS

Decades Issues Technology
You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
TOM PETERS

Boxes Thinking Way
The populations of most cities around the world continue to grow. The reasonspeople congregate in cities are various and complex, and the dawn of the digital age has not put much of adamper on the human urge to congregate.
TOM PETERS

Age Cities Congregate Digital
Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
TOM PETERS

Entrepreneur Excellence Lasts
What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
TOM PETERS

Decide Important Probably
Now that I have adopted into my own daily life a device that makes music and spoken-word files easy to access from anywhere, I have tempered my skepticism.
TOM PETERS

Essay Music Spoken Tempered
The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
TOM PETERS

Average Differences Imagination
If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.
TOM PETERS

Consider Deligated Jobs Leader

The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Tom Peters Quotes