black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.

Tom Peters

If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
TOM PETERS

Inspirational Opportunity Success
Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
TOM PETERS

Accepting Change
Dot the i’s, cross the t’s, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil is in the details.
TOM PETERS

Devil Entrepreneur Phones
…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
TOM PETERS

Attitide Attitude Matter
The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
TOM PETERS

Easy Fire Wisdom Yourself
A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
TOM PETERS

Free Library Lunch Rare
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.
TOM PETERS

Book Growing Hallmark Parks
Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
TOM PETERS

Integrity Littles May
I find digital content much easier and more rewarding to interact with on screen than printed on paper.
TOM PETERS

Digital Easier Paper
If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.
TOM PETERS

Consider Deligated Jobs Leader
Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
TOM PETERS

Cost Elapsed Long
What gets measured gets done.
TOM PETERS

Done Inspirational Customer Service Measurement
The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
TOM PETERS

Best Leader Leader Learners
The principal reason, invariably, most “successful” giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact,
TOM PETERS

Anything Change Fact Successful Worse Yesterday
Business is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
TOM PETERS

Ideas Passion People
The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.
TOM PETERS

Customers Ideas Intimately

Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Tom Peters Quotes