Tom Peters Quotes (24 Quotes)

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

We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.

Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.

Now that we have this opportunity, we need to get with the program. (We've) no idea how long it will last,

South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.

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

It seems hard to believe in May that my wife and two kids will go to a game until 1030 p.m., ... and then try to make the 7 a.m. school bus the next day.

We'll be paying the same amount of money for tickets,

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

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

Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.

Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.

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.

Don't let the vision be shot through with holes, but be damn sure some of your best and brightest are shooting at it -- with bazookas as well as sniper's rifles.

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.

Inspiring visions rarely (I'm tempted to say never) include numbers.

If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.

Celebrate what you want to see more of.

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.

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

C6 has exposed the headlamps for the first time since 1962, and believe me, there was a lot of emotional discussion around that,