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.
TOM PETERSDon’t let the vision be shot through with holes, but be damn sure some of your best and brightest are shooting at it — with bazookas as well as sniper’s rifles.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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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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I think it’s wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
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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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He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.
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Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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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 a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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Make an extensive table of project ‘deliverables’. Label one column ‘as requested’. Create another column labeled ‘could be’. Make each ‘could be’ wild and woolly!
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We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.
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How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity ‘about every subject under the sun.’
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A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good – similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.
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Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
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