Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period. Tom Peters More Quotes by Tom Peters More Quotes From Tom Peters ...high end does not necessarily equal high price. It's a matter of attitude. Tom Peters matterdoeattitude Cost does not equal value... and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time. Tom Peters costdoelong Business, life itself, is damned hard work if you wanna be good at it. Actually, that's precisely wrong. Business ceases to be work when you're chasing a dream that has engorged you. ("Work should be more fun than fun" - Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn't there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags. Tom Peters businessdreamfun The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come. Tom Peters customersideas Steve Jobs is perhaps the most competitive human being I have ever met in my life, and yet I would argue one of the most artistic human beings I have ever met in my life. You can trash the movies all you want, but they do have an artistic component. And yet brutal competition knows no peers when it comes to Hollywood. Tom Peters competitionbusinessjobs I am my clients. I am defined by who I do business with. Tom Peters definedclients Digital content and electronic networks have changed the basic environmental conditionsin which documents are created, distributed, and used. Tom Peters environmentaldigitalused Many flagship state universities have wonderful digital libraries that are accessed by people around the world. In future, if not current, budget crises, trustees, board members, and administrators may wonder why these state institutions - with an articulated primary clientele of students, faculty, and staff members and a secondary clientele of all citizens of the state - should be spending resources on a digital library that is used by many people beyond the primary and secondary service populations. Tom Peters librarypeopleworld They say plan it. I say do it. Tom Peters plans Anybody who is an entrepreneur is a person who essentially has impaired judgment. The odds of success are zilch. This valley is loaded to the gills with a whole lot of totally insane people who honest to God believe that they can be the next Bill Gates or the next Scott McNealy. And that is genuinely stupid. Tom Peters businessstupidbelieve In the great city of San Francisco, where I used to live, at 2 in the morning every other Victorian house has somebody who is writing the great American novel. And the city is not loaded with James Joyces or Virginia Woolfs. But entrepreneurship is about distorted views of reality. Tom Peters businesswritingmorning The 10 or 12 artists I have known really well all my life are at least as competitive as professional athletes. They may express it in slightly different terms, but you look at the Jackson Pollocks et al., and they are as interested in wall space in the galleries as Joe Montana is in the percentage of completed passes. So the notion that symphonic conducting, or stage play, or pure art, is not a competitive business is real bullshit. Tom Peters wallbusinessart The market may never coalesce around one basic design, or even around two or three dominant devices. Tom Peters designthreetwo The selfish leader will attempt to lead others for their own gain and for the detriment of others. Tom Peters selfishgainsleader Now it is much faster and cheaper to bring thedocument to the user, rather than ask the user to come to the document or collection. Tom Peters cheapercollectionsfaster The little people will get even, which is one of a thousand reasons why they are not little people at all. If you're a jerk as a leader, you will be torpedoed. And usually it won't be by your vice presidents; it will be on the loading dock at 3am when no supervisors are around. Tom Peters leaderpresidentpeople Organize as much as possible around teams, to achieve enhanced focus, task orientation, innovativeness, and individual commitment. Tom Peters focusteamcommitment 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! Tom Peters impactlabelstables Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off. Tom Peters cuttingmotivationalmean Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade. Tom Peters qualityexcellenceperfection
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