black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I’m fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies – in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.

Tom Peters

Hire attitude train skills.
TOM PETERS

Attitude Skills Train
Bold botches are to be cherished.
TOM PETERS

Botches Cherished Country People
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.
TOM PETERS

Age Cities Congregate Digital
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
Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain’t in the mean, the mode or the median – it’s in the differences that occur throughout a population.
TOM PETERS

Differences Educational Ideas Mean Occur
The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.
TOM PETERS

Best Economy Home Secret Today
Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how “open” you are, you’ll end up surrounded by “yes people.” It’s hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.
TOM PETERS

Believe Friends Ideas
Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
TOM PETERS

Entrepreneur Leader Organization
Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
TOM PETERS

Inspirational Leader Ultimate
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
The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
TOM PETERS

Athlete Crafts Way
Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
TOM PETERS

Age Library Resources
We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.
TOM PETERS

Doors Havoc Innovation
TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
TOM PETERS

Decades Issues Technology
The common wisdom is that … managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
TOM PETERS

Common Motivation People
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
TOM PETERS

Positive Productive Work Simple

I’m fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies – in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I’m fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies – in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Tom Peters Quotes