Tom Peters

Tom Peters
Thomas J. "Tom" Petersis an American writer on business management practices, best known for In Search of Excellence...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth7 November 1942
CountryUnited States of America
excellence vision able
Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
excellence screw-ups mark
Screw-ups are the mark of excellence.
entrepreneur excellence lasts
Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
perfection excellence quality
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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How do you achieve excellence?...Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
excellence what-if ifs
If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?
excellence trying
Do it, fix it, try it.
excellent-work excellence lines
A while back, I came across a line attributed to IBM founder Thomas Watson. If you want to achieve excellence, he said, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
numbers excellence woods
'In Search of Excellence' - even the title - is a reminder that business isn't dry, dreary, boring, or by the numbers. Life at work can be cool - and work that's cool isn't confined to Tiger Woods, Yo-Yo Ma, or Tom Hanks. It's available to all of us and any of us.
memorable excellence find-me
Excellence comes from human beings doing things of value that customers find memorable.
excellence next minutes
Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
competition excellence execution
The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
apple brothers cancer cross easy eventually mission national program red vice
I started out with the Big Brothers program and then went to the American Cancer Society, where I was eventually the national vice president. I'm a mission kind of guy. The Red Cross was an easy mission to embrace, like Chevrolet and apple pie.
charge design dog team
My charge to the design team was for them to do the meanest, scrappiest, street-fighting dog they could sketch.