All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
TOM PETERSFormula for success: under promise and over deliver.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain’t in the mean, the mode or the median – it’s in the differences that occur throughout a population.
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Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
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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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…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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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.
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The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we’re going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
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You are your projects!
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Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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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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If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.
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Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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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.
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What have you done lately – this week – to make yourself stand out? What would your colleagues or your customers say is your greatest and clearest strength? Your most noteworthy (as in, worthy of note) personal trait?
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