black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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 Peters

I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in which audible information will be at least as important as visible information.
TOM PETERS

Entering Important May
He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
TOM PETERS

Prototype Reign Work
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 PETERS

Business Dull Lunch
The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
TOM PETERS

Easy Fire Wisdom Yourself
Gandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an incredible degree-their “personal style” was their “brand.” (“It” starts with personal style of the tip-top leadership team.
TOM PETERS

Degree Leadership Sorry Team
Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
TOM PETERS

Change Learning Past
I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
TOM PETERS

Age Believe Internet
Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
TOM PETERS

Edify Lists Simplify
Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
TOM PETERS

Essentials Knowing Loss
If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism – the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.
TOM PETERS

Ambiguity Era Flaws Mars Unprecedented Volatility
South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village – an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
TOM PETERS

Challenges Competition Tools
Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does.
TOM PETERS

Challenges People Reading
Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
TOM PETERS

High Levels Past Standards
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.
TOM PETERS

Business Design Poor Process Quality
We’re going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business – the attribute that is highest in demand and shortest in supply.
TOM PETERS

Demand Elements Important
I 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 PETERS

Coffee Kids Passion

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Tom Peters Quotes