Tom Peters Quotes

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

  Tom Peters

  Leadership, Business, Insperational

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• Hire for attitude. Train for skill... More

  Tom Peters

  Attitude, Skills, Train

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Circle of Innovation: You Can't Shrink Your Way to Greatness”, p.507, Vintage

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• The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.

  Tom Peters

  Ideas, People, World

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Circle of Innovation: You Can't Shrink Your Way to Greatness”, p.78, Vintage

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

  Tom Peters

  Inspirational, Business, Educational

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• Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.

  Tom Peters

  Excellence, Next, Minutes

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• You will be remembered, in the long haul, for the quality of your work, not the quantity of your work. No one evaluates Picasso based on the number of paintings he churned out.

  Tom Peters

  Motivation, Work, Numbers

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• Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it...only business people think it isn't necessary to train.

  Tom Peters

  Teamwork, Thinking, People

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• Excellence comes from human beings doing things of value that customers find memorable.

  Tom Peters

  Memorable, Excellence, Find Me

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

  Tom Peters

  Business, Competition, Excellence

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• Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere

  Tom Peters

  Ideas

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• What gets measured gets done.

  Tom Peters

  Done, Measurement, Inspirational Customer Service

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Circle of Innovation: You Can't Shrink Your Way to Greatness”, p.284, Vintage

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• Celebrate what you want to see more of.

  Tom Peters

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.

  Tom Peters

  Jobs, Age, Important

  "The Brand Called You" by Tom Peters, www.fastcompany.com. August 31, 1997.

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• Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

  Tom Peters

  Leadership, Vision, Management

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• The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.

  Tom Peters

  Leader, Learners, Best Leader

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• The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

  Tom Peters

  Positive, Simple, Productive Work

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• Change is not so much about being the first one to embrace a new idea, but being the first to forget an old one

  Tom Peters

  Ideas, Firsts, Forget

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• Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.

  Tom Peters

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Educational

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• If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

  Tom Peters

  Inspirational, Success, Opportunity

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.50, Vintage

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• There is no such thing as an insignificant improvement.

  Tom Peters

  Self Improvement, Self Discipline, Improvement

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• Remember my mantra: distinct... or extinct.

  Tom Peters

  Remember, Mantras

  "You Are What You Tweet" by Tony Tulathimutte, www.newyorker.com. September 3, 2013.

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• I imagine a school system that recognizes learning is natural, that a love of learning is normal, and that real learning is passionate learning. A school curriculum that values questions above answers...creativity above fact regurgitation...individuality above conformity.. and excellence above standardized performance..... And we must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.

  Tom Peters

  Real, Creativity, School

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• Never, ever rest on your laurels. Today's laurels are tomorrow's compost.

  Tom Peters

  History, Today, Tomorrow

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• One percent improvement in 1,000 things is better than 1,000% improvement in one thing.

  Tom Peters

  Improvement, One Thing, Percent

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• Nearly 100% of innovation-from business to politics-is inspired not by "market analysis" but by people who are supremely pissed off by the way things are.

  Tom Peters

  Change, People, Innovation

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