Tom Peters Quotes

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

Hire for attitude. Train for skill... More

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

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

Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.

You will be remembered, in the long haul, for the quality of your work, not the quantity of your work. No one evaluates Picasso based on the number of paintings he churned out.

Excellence comes from human beings doing things of value that customers find memorable.

The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.

What gets measured gets done.

Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it...only business people think it isn't necessary to train.

Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

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.

Celebrate what you want to see more of.

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

Remember my mantra: distinct... or extinct.

Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.

Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.

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

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

I imagine a school system that recognizes learning is natural, that a love of learning is normal, and that real learning is passionate learning. A school curriculum that values questions above answers...creativity above fact regurgitation...individuality above conformity.. and excellence above standardized performance..... And we must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.

You can only improve what you measure.

The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.

Change is not so much about being the first one to embrace a new idea, but being the first to forget an old one

Nearly 100% of innovation-from business to politics-is inspired not by "market analysis" but by people who are supremely pissed off by the way things are.