I’m fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies – in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.
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More Tom Peters Quotes
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The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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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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If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven’t figured it out yet.
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South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village – an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
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Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Bold botches are to be cherished.
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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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Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
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Business is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
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I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in which audible information will be at least as important as visible information.
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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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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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Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
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