You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.
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.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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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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The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we’re going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
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Even a poor, out-of-datecollection reflects in its own way the values of the people who created it and the community it serves.
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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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I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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What gets measured gets done.
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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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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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Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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Don’t let the vision be shot through with holes, but be damn sure some of your best and brightest are shooting at it — with bazookas as well as sniper’s rifles.
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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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What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?
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