Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
TOM PETERSLeaders trust their guts. “Intuition” is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a “soft” notion.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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Business ceases to be work when you’re chasing a dream that has engorged you. (“Work should be more fun than fun” – Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn’t there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.
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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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Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.
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Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind – and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off, connections made, insights triggered
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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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Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated…they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.
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What have you done lately – this week – to make yourself stand out? What would your colleagues or your customers say is your greatest and clearest strength? Your most noteworthy (as in, worthy of note) personal trait?
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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.
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Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).
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How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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Now that I have adopted into my own daily life a device that makes music and spoken-word files easy to access from anywhere, I have tempered my skepticism.
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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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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
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