The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.
TOM PETERSI 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.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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Authority never matches responsibility. That’s one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all levels know that effectiveness means building your own network and creating your own authority.
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Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
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If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism – the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.
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I find digital content much easier and more rewarding to interact with on screen than printed on paper.
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Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
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Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).
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The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!
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Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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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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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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A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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