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

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

Tom Peters
Change, Learning, Past

Appreciation, applause, approval, respect - we all love it!

Tom Peters
Appreciation, Approval, Applause
Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.45, Vintage

They say plan it. I say do it.

Tom Peters
Plans

Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.

Tom Peters

The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.

Tom Peters
Home, Economy Today, Best Kept Secrets

If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!

Tom Peters
Business, Love You, Passion

Hire attitude train skills.

Tom Peters
Attitude, Skills, Train

You can't live life without an eraser.

Tom Peters
Live Life, Erasers

In today's economy there are no experts, no 'best and brightest' with all the answers. It's up to each one of us. The only way to screw up is to not try anything.

Tom Peters
Trying, Experts, Screw Ups

To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.

Tom Peters
Change, Past, Demand

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.

Tom Peters
Important, Demand, Elements

Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated...they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.

Tom Peters
Mistake, Bigger, Be Encouraged

WORK ON YOUR STORY! He/she who has the best story wins! In life! In business! The White House!

Tom Peters
Business, Winning, White

If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I've gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time.

Tom Peters
Book, Ideas, Cost

OLD: Be No.1 or No.2 in Your Market. NEW: Find a Niche, Create Something New.

Tom Peters
Entrepreneur, Niche, Something New

Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.

Tom Peters
Rewards, Excellent, Mediocre
Tom Peters (2010). “The Circle of Innovation: You Can't Shrink Your Way to Greatness”, p.8, Vintage

You have to stand out if you want to move up.

Tom Peters
Moving, Want, Standing Out

Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.

Tom Peters
Integrity, May, Littles

Progress is mostly the product of rogues.

Tom Peters
Progress, Rogues, Products

Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.

Tom Peters
War, Winning, Leader

Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.

Tom Peters
Excellence, Vision, Able

Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.

Tom Peters
Organization, Entrepreneur, Leader
Tom Peters “Excellence Now: Purpose”, New Word City

Only pissed-off people change the world.

Tom Peters
People, Pissed Off, World

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

Tom Peters
Inspirational, Loyalty, Educational

OPPORTUNITY is not "knocking." It is pounding on your door.

Tom Peters
Opportunity, Doors, Knocking

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