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
thinking needs world
I think it's wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
people world pissed-off
Only pissed-off people change the world.
way pace world
The world has not just "turned upside down". It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.
believe secret world
The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
organization two world
In McKinsey's world, all of life is one of two things: strategy or organization.
years world today
The manager, in today's world, doesn't get paid to be a steward of resources, a favored term not so many years ago. He or she gets paid for one and only one thing: to make things better (incrementally and dramatically), to change things, to act - today.
world littles burning
A little (or more) boat burning would do many enterprises a world of good.
ideas people world
The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.
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.
amount money paying
We'll be paying the same amount of money for tickets,
Now that we have this opportunity, we need to get with the program. (We've) no idea how long it will last,
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.
amazed tried
It's amazed me that no one has ever tried to do this before.