Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
TOM PETERSLists simplify, clarify, edify.
TOM PETERSIf a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
TOM PETERSPassion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through the 17-hour days (month after month) and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the start-up process.
TOM PETERSEvery managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
TOM PETERSListen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
TOM PETERSI think economics is about passion. Economic progress, whether it is a two-person coffee shop or whether it is Netscape, is about people with brave ideas. Because it is brave to mortgage the house, when you’ve got two kids, to start a coffee shop.
TOM PETERSThe 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 PETERSNow 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.
TOM PETERSSmile if it kills you. The physiology of smiling diffuses a lot of anger and angst. It makes your body and soul feel better.
TOM PETERSMistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated…they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.
TOM PETERSIf 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.
TOM PETERSThe worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.
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.
TOM PETERSLeaders’ careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.
TOM PETERSThe company’s most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand – innovation from everyone.
TOM PETERSBold botches are to be cherished.
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