Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation – and about fundamental relations with one’s fellows.
TOM PETERSIf you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!
More Tom Peters Quotes
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Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you’re consistent, you’re vulnerable to attack. Yes, it’s a paradox. Now deal with it!
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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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Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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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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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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The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
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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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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.
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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.
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Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
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For me, reading is reading.
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Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated…they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.
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The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.
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