Tom Peters Short Quotes

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Most of their real innovation comes from the market

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If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?

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Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.

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There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity.

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Pursue failure. Failure is success's only launching pad.

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Do not even flippantly badmouth anybody this week. Button it up.

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The vitality of our network will determine our professional fate.

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Lavish credit on anyone and everyone who helped you the least bit.

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Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.

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Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.

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The Big Four: Out-read 'em. Out-study 'em. Out-present 'em. Out-listen 'em.

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The most important personal 'core competence' by far is a rich set of relationships.

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Make the collective, professional pursuit of listening skills per se a keystone of corporate 'culture'.

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

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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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The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.

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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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Smile if it kills you. The physiology of smiling diffuses a lot of anger and angst. It makes your body and soul feel better.

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The winners stun us not by their cleverness, but by the fact that every tiny aspect of the business is just a touch better than the norm.

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Bosses: You make your living going to meetings. Hence any meeting that does not bubble and incite enthusiasm is a forever-lost opportunity.

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Have fun/Make it fun. … All human endeavor is about emotion. Zest, joy, pride—and fun—are near the heart of any successful enterprise.

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Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time'—small talk, daydreaming—are imperatives.

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Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade.

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Creating in all employees the awareness that their best efforts are essential and that they will share in the rewards of the company's success.

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