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
important
What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
sweet real important
My real bottom-line hypothesis is that nobody has a sweet clue what they’re doing. Therefore you better be trying stuff at an insanely rapid pace. You want to be screwing around with nearly everything. Relentless experimentation was probably important in the 1970s-now it’s do or die.
important brands sustained-success
Brand inside is more important than brand outside for sustained success.
leadership curiosity important
Winston Churchill said that appetite was the most important thing about education. Leadership guru Warren Bennis says he wants to be remembered as 'curious to the end.' David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity 'about every subject under the sun.'
important demand elements
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.
people important asking
If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.
jobs important age
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.
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I'm most proud of the fact that we've increased our Disaster Assistance Team from three to 50 people. We recently set a goal to recruit 100 more people to be on the Disaster Services Human Resources Team that can be called out of the area.
amazed tried
It's amazed me that no one has ever tried to do this before.
believe bus game hard kids next school seems until wife
It seems hard to believe in May that my wife and two kids will go to a game until 10:30 p.m., ... and then try to make the 7 a.m. school bus the next day.
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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.
Now that we have this opportunity, we need to get with the program. (We've) no idea how long it will last,
glorified high league school
This league will effectively become a glorified high school and independent league.
believe discussion emotional exposed since time
C6 has exposed the headlamps for the first time since 1962, and believe me, there was a lot of emotional discussion around that,