Tom Peters

United States
Born on 7 Nov 1942
Businessman

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Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks.

Eupsychian Management (1965)
A couple of hours in a hot kitchen can teach you as much about management as the latest books on reengineering or total quality management.

'The Way the Cookie Crumbles' (1995)
Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one's corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex � your network � instead.

Economist (1996)
Remember my mantra: distinct... or extinct.
Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
You, me, all of us, must turn ourselves into distinctive one-person Brands.

'Work Matters!' movement manifesto, www.tompeters.com (1999)
As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.
Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services - from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants - are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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