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 PETERSI still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
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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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I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.
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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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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
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Fact is, the work place to a great extent is “where we live.” We need star accountants. Boffo saleswomen. Over-the-top creatives in marketing and new product development.
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Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through the 17-hour days (month after month) and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the start-up process.
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Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere
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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.
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If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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Your calendar never lies. All we have is our time. The way we spend our time is our priorities, is our strategy. Your calendar knows what you really care about. Do you?
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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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Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
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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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He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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