Tom Peters Quotes About Business

Quotes about: Business

• Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

  Tom Peters

  Leadership, Business, Insperational

• The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

  Tom Peters

  Inspirational, Business, Educational

• If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.

  Tom Peters

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

• Formula for success: Underpromise and overachieve.

  Tom Peters

  Business, Inspirational Business, Formulas

• Who comes first? Don't be silly, says King Hal; it's employees. That is - and this dear Watson, is elementary - if you genuinely want to put customers first, you must put employees more first.

  Tom Peters

  Kings, Business, Silly

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.55, Vintage

• Oh Lord, there it is again. The question;" What kind of business should I start?" Incidentially, it has a twin that also sets me off: "What should I specialize in during the second year of my MBA studies?" Sorry, but those are two of the most profoundly upsetting questions anyone can ask - upsetting because the answer should be obvious: Do what turns you on, not what the statistics say is best.

  Tom Peters

  Sorry, Business, Years

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.22, Vintage

• 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 Peters

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  "The Best Corporate Strategy? None, Of Course". articles.chicagotribune.com. July 11, 1994.

• Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

  Tom Peters

  Business, Design Process, Poor Quality

• Don't 'tolerate' mistakes. Embrace them!

  Tom Peters

  Business, Mistake, Training

• If the other guy is getting better, then you'd better be getting better faster than the other guy is getting better... or you're getting worse.

  Tom Peters

  Business, Guy, Get Better

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Circle of Innovation: You Can't Shrink Your Way to Greatness”, p.14, Vintage

• The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.

  Tom Peters

  Business, Competition, Excellence

• Steve Jobs is perhaps the most competitive human being I have ever met in my life, and yet I would argue one of the most artistic human beings I have ever met in my life. You can trash the movies all you want, but they do have an artistic component. And yet brutal competition knows no peers when it comes to Hollywood.

  Tom Peters

  Jobs, Business, Competition

• The 10 or 12 artists I have known really well all my life are at least as competitive as professional athletes. They may express it in slightly different terms, but you look at the Jackson Pollocks et al., and they are as interested in wall space in the galleries as Joe Montana is in the percentage of completed passes. So the notion that symphonic conducting, or stage play, or pure art, is not a competitive business is real bullshit.

  Tom Peters

  Art, Wall, Business

  "The Peters Principles". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October 1997.

• Business, life itself, is damned hard work if you wanna be good at it. Actually, that's precisely wrong. 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.

  Tom Peters

  Dream, Fun, Business

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.22, Vintage

• Anybody who is an entrepreneur is a person who essentially has impaired judgment. The odds of success are zilch. This valley is loaded to the gills with a whole lot of totally insane people who honest to God believe that they can be the next Bill Gates or the next Scott McNealy. And that is genuinely stupid.

  Tom Peters

  Business, Stupid, Believe

  "The Peters Principles". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October 1997.

• In the great city of San Francisco, where I used to live, at 2 in the morning every other Victorian house has somebody who is writing the great American novel. And the city is not loaded with James Joyces or Virginia Woolfs. But entrepreneurship is about distorted views of reality.

  Tom Peters

  Morning, Business, Writing

  "The Peters Principles". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October 1997.

• If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!

  Tom Peters

  Business, Love You, Passion

• The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it's not fun, you're wasting your life.

  Tom Peters

  Fun, Business, Creativity

• Train everyone lavishly. You can't overspend on training.

  Tom Peters

  Business, Training, Management

• Like it or not - and often we don't - power is a pervasive phenomenon. From midnight decisions in the Oval Office that risk the lives of young Americans to quarrels over the kitchen table, power is part of every human equation. Yes, it can be - and often is - abused, in business as in all arenas of endeavor. But it can also be used to do great good for great numbers. And as a career-building tool, the slow and steady (and subtle) amassing of power is the surest road to success.

  Tom Peters

  Business, Power, Numbers

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.43, Vintage

• My half-baked reading of history is that we continue to go through these waves of entrepreneurial explosion followed by merger mania and consolidation. Out of that come big sluggish companies that eventually collapse under the weight of what they've created, and are killed off by the next wave of entrepreneurs.

  Tom Peters

  Business, Reading, Entrepreneur

  "The Peters Principles: An Interview with Tom Peters". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October 1997.

• Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she'd added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community. No rule says that only the local banker or car dealer can organize the program to raise supplemental funds for the public library or send the high school band on a well-earned special trip. Participating in community affairs, with time more than dollars, is good business from day one. It gets your name around, adds to your distinctiveness, and, best of all, makes you an attractive employer (which is the key to sustained success).

  Tom Peters

  Business, Real, School

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.117, Vintage

• Who, precisely, are your Dreamers? Are their Dreams in Technicolor? Do you allow their most Outrageous Dreams to be seen in public?

  Tom Peters

  Dream, Business, Dreamer

• Champions are pioneers, and pioneers get shot at. The companies that get the most from champions, therefore, are those that have rich support network so their pioneers will flourish. This point is so important it's hard to overstress. No support systems, no champions. No champions, no innovations.

  Tom Peters

  Business, Support Systems, Champion

• Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.

  Tom Peters

  Business, Appreciate, Assets

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