Quotes by Tom Peters

“If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just havent figured it out yet.”

“The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.”

“I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.”

If youre not confused, youre not paying attention.

Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of staying employed in the years ahead.

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

A while back, I came across a line attributed to IBM founder Thomas Watson. If you want to achieve excellence, he said, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Branding is about everything.

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.

Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.

Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs. Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!

Communication is everyones panacea for everything.

Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Everyone has a chance to learn, improve, and build up their skills.

If a window of opportunity appears, dont pull down the shade.

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

Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. Its about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And its about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.

For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, its office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.