369 Quotes by Tom Peters

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

Make an extensive table of project 'deliverables'. Label one column 'as requested'. Create another column labeled 'could be'. Make each 'could be' wild and woolly!

Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through the 17-hour days (month after month) and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the start-up process.

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

Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.

Swipe from the best, then adapt.

Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at.

The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.

The company's most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand - innovation from everyone.