Tom Peters
United States
Born on 7 Nov 1942
Businessman
Born on 7 Nov 1942
Businessman
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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.
The common wisdom is that... managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
The professional service firm�with its obsession on clients and projects�must be the new organizational model.
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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
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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