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.
TOM PETERSIf you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!
More Tom Peters Quotes
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I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.
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If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.
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Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does.
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Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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The company’s most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand – innovation from everyone.
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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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Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one’s corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.
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Leaders trust their guts. “Intuition” is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a “soft” notion.
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What gets measured gets done.
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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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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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The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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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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The common wisdom is that … managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
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