All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
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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Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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You can’t live life without an eraser.
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Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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You are your projects!
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Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services – from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants – are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz.
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For me, reading is reading.
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Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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But there’s no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.
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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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Become a “learning organization”. Shuck your arrogance – “if it isn’t our idea, it can’t be that good” – and become a determined copycat/ adapter/ enhancer.
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The world has not just “turned upside down”. It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.
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Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one’s corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.
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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.
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