All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
TOM PETERSCost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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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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A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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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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The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.
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Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation – and about fundamental relations with one’s fellows.
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I 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.
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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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Garbage! Intuition is the new physics. It’s an Einsteinian, seven-sense, practical way to make tough decisions. Bottom line, circa 2001 to 2010: The crazier the times are, the more important it is for leaders to develop and to trust their intuition.
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The worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.
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Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
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Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!
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Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.
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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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The populations of most cities around the world continue to grow. The reasonspeople congregate in cities are various and complex, and the dawn of the digital age has not put much of adamper on the human urge to congregate.
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