Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!
TOM PETERSToday brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services – from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants – are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how “open” you are, you’ll end up surrounded by “yes people.” It’s hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.
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If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.
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For me, reading is reading.
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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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A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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Bold botches are to be cherished.
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All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
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You are your projects!
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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
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If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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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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Sorry, but those are two of the most profoundly upsetting questions anyone can ask – upsetting because the answer should be obvious: Do what turns you on, not what the statistics say is best.
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The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere
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